NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3070 and 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 's Advantages

Released 11 months late

More VRAM (8GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 336.0GB/s)

4480 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 3% (1785MHz vs 1725MHz)

Lower TDP (125W vs 220W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3070 +304%

20.31 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

5.027 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 3070 +128%

13673

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

5987

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 3070 +103%

53

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

26

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 3070 +82%

95

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

52

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 3070 +82%

144

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

79

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 3070 +97%

81

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

41

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 3070 +80%

141

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

78

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 3070 +93%

188

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

97

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 3070 +13%

68

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

60

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 3070 +38%

105

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

76

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 3070

159

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER +11%

178

GeForce RTX 3070

VS

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

Graphics Card

Sep 2020

Release Date

Oct 2019

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 16

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1500 MHz

Base Clock

1530 MHz

1725 MHz

Boost Clock

1785 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

448.0GB/s

Bandwidth

336.0GB/s

Render Config

-

46

SM Count

22

5888

Shading Units

1408

184

TMUs

88

96

ROPs

48

184

Tensor Cores

-

46

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

4 MB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

165.6 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

85.68 GPixel/s

317.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

157.1 GTexel/s

20.31 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

10.05 TFLOPS

20.31 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.027 TFLOPS

317.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

157.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

220W

TDP

125W

550 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

TU116

GA104-300-A1

GPU Variant

TU116-300-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Turing

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

12 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

6.6 billion

392 mm²

Die Size

284 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

8.6

CUDA

7.5

6.6

Shader Model

6.6

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