NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER 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 RTX 4070 SUPER '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 (504.2GB/s vs 192.1GB/s)

5760 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 's Advantages

Lower TDP (120W vs 220W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER +605%

35.48 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1660

5.027 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER +288%

21021

GeForce GTX 1660

5414

Blender

GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER +811%

7177

GeForce GTX 1660

787

OctaneBench

GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER +523%

698

GeForce GTX 1660

112

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER +291%

94

GeForce GTX 1660

24

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER +291%

184

GeForce GTX 1660

47

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER +278%

276

GeForce GTX 1660

73

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER +180%

112

GeForce GTX 1660

40

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER +157%

188

GeForce GTX 1660

73

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER +119%

200

GeForce GTX 1660

91

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER +216%

158

GeForce GTX 1660

50

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER +203%

158

GeForce GTX 1660

52

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER +21%

190

GeForce GTX 1660

156

GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER

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GeForce GTX 1660

Graphics Card

Jan 2024

Release Date

Mar 2019

GeForce 40

Generation

GeForce 16

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1980 MHz

Base Clock

1530 MHz

2475 MHz

Boost Clock

1785 MHz

1313 MHz

Memory Clock

2001 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

192bit

504.2GB/s

Bandwidth

192.1GB/s

Render Config

56

SM Count

22

-

Compute Units

-

7168

Shading Units

1408

224

TMUs

88

80

ROPs

48

224

Tensor Cores

-

56

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

48 MB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

Theoretical Performance

198.0 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

85.68 GPixel/s

554.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

157.1 GTexel/s

35.48 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

10.05 TFLOPS

35.48 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.027 TFLOPS

554.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

157.1 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

AD104

GPU Name

TU116

AD104-350-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

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 16-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

8.9

CUDA

7.5

6.7

Shader Model

6.6

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