NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1660 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 192.1GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 52% (1785MHz vs 1178MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 4GB)

Lower TDP (120W vs 148W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 970

3.92 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1660 +28%

5.027 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 970

3625

GeForce GTX 1660 +49%

5414

Blender

GeForce GTX 970

302

GeForce GTX 1660 +160%

787

OctaneBench

GeForce GTX 970

78

GeForce GTX 1660 +43%

112

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GTX 970

15

GeForce GTX 1660 +60%

24

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GTX 970

30

GeForce GTX 1660 +56%

47

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GTX 970

40

GeForce GTX 1660 +82%

73

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce GTX 970

42

GeForce GTX 1660 +19%

50

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce GTX 970

44

GeForce GTX 1660 +18%

52

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 970

98

GeForce GTX 1660 +59%

156

GeForce GTX 970

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GeForce GTX 1660

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Mar 2019

GeForce 900

Generation

GeForce 16

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1050 MHz

Base Clock

1530 MHz

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

1785 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

2001 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

192.1GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

22

-

Compute Units

-

1664

Shading Units

1408

104

TMUs

88

56

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

Theoretical Performance

65.97 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

85.68 GPixel/s

122.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

157.1 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

10.05 TFLOPS

3.920 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.027 TFLOPS

122.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

157.1 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

TU116

GM204-200-A1

GPU Variant

TU116-300-A1

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Turing

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

12 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

6.6 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

284 mm²

Board Design

148W

TDP

120W

300 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

5.2

CUDA

7.5

6.4

Shader Model

6.6

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