NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti

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

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 7 months late

More VRAM (8GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 288.0GB/s)

4352 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 3% (1770MHz vs 1725MHz)

Lower TDP (120W vs 220W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3070 +273%

20.31 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1660 Ti

5.437 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 3070 +117%

13637

GeForce GTX 1660 Ti

6265

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 3070 +89%

53

GeForce GTX 1660 Ti

28

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 3070 +82%

95

GeForce GTX 1660 Ti

52

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 3070 +80%

144

GeForce GTX 1660 Ti

80

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 3070 +84%

81

GeForce GTX 1660 Ti

44

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 3070 +76%

141

GeForce GTX 1660 Ti

80

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 3070 +82%

188

GeForce GTX 1660 Ti

103

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 3070 +15%

69

GeForce GTX 1660 Ti

60

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 3070 +69%

105

GeForce GTX 1660 Ti

62

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 3070 +3%

159

GeForce GTX 1660 Ti

154

GeForce RTX 3070

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GeForce GTX 1660 Ti

Graphics Card

Sep 2020

Release Date

Feb 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

1500 MHz

1725 MHz

Boost Clock

1770 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

448.0GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

46

SM Count

24

-

Compute Units

-

5888

Shading Units

1536

184

TMUs

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

84.96 GPixel/s

317.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

169.9 GTexel/s

20.31 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

10.87 TFLOPS

20.31 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.437 TFLOPS

317.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

169.9 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

TU116

GA104-300-A1

GPU Variant

TU116-400-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

Board Design

220W

TDP

120W

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 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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