NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6 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 4070 GDDR6 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 39% (2475MHz vs 1785MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (480.0GB/s vs 336.0GB/s)

4480 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER 's Advantages

Lower TDP (125W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6 +479%

29.15 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

5.027 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6 +198%

17853

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

5987

GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6

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GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

Graphics Card

Aug 2024

Release Date

Oct 2019

GeForce 40

Generation

GeForce 16

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1920 MHz

Base Clock

1530 MHz

2475 MHz

Boost Clock

1785 MHz

2500 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

192bit

480.0GB/s

Bandwidth

336.0GB/s

Render Config

-

46

SM Count

22

5888

Shading Units

1408

184

TMUs

88

64

ROPs

48

184

Tensor Cores

-

46

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

36 MB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

158.4 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

85.68 GPixel/s

455.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

157.1 GTexel/s

29.15 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

10.05 TFLOPS

29.15 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.027 TFLOPS

455.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

157.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

200W

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 16-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

AD104

GPU Name

TU116

AD104-2XX-A1

GPU Variant

TU116-300-A1

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

Turing

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

5 nm

Process Size

12 nm

35.8 billion

Transistors

6.6 billion

294 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

8.9

CUDA

7.5

6.8

Shader Model

6.6

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