NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 TiM vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 TiM

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3070 TiM and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 660 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 TiM 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 37% (1410MHz vs 1032MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 144.2GB/s)

4928 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 's Advantages

Lower TDP (140W vs 220W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3070 TiM +737%

16.6 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 660

1.981 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3070 TiM

VS

GeForce GTX 660

Graphics Card

Nov 2022

Release Date

Sep 2012

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

915 MHz

Base Clock

980 MHz

1410 MHz

Boost Clock

1032 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1502 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

448.0GB/s

Bandwidth

144.2GB/s

Render Config

-

46

SM Count

-

5888

Shading Units

960

184

TMUs

80

96

ROPs

24

184

Tensor Cores

-

46

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

4 MB

L2 Cache

384 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

135.4 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

20.64 GPixel/s

259.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

82.56 GTexel/s

16.60 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

16.60 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.981 TFLOPS

259.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

82.56 GFLOPS

Board Design

220W

TDP

140W

550 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

GK106

-

GPU Variant

GK106-400-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Kepler

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

2.54 billion

392 mm²

Die Size

221 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.1

8.6

CUDA

3.0

6.6

Shader Model

5.1

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