NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti

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

Released 4 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 40% (2475MHz vs 1770MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (504.2GB/s vs 288.0GB/s)

4352 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti 's Advantages

Lower TDP (120W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 4070 +436%

29.15 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1660 Ti

5.437 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 4070 +185%

17859

GeForce GTX 1660 Ti

6265

Blender

GeForce RTX 4070 +587%

6026

GeForce GTX 1660 Ti

877

OctaneBench

GeForce RTX 4070 +413%

642

GeForce GTX 1660 Ti

125

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 4070 +192%

82

GeForce GTX 1660 Ti

28

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 4070 +207%

160

GeForce GTX 1660 Ti

52

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 4070 +220%

256

GeForce GTX 1660 Ti

80

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 4070 +122%

98

GeForce GTX 1660 Ti

44

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 4070 +115%

172

GeForce GTX 1660 Ti

80

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 4070 +94%

200

GeForce GTX 1660 Ti

103

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 4070 +140%

144

GeForce GTX 1660 Ti

60

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 4070 +132%

144

GeForce GTX 1660 Ti

62

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 4070 +23%

190

GeForce GTX 1660 Ti

154

GeForce RTX 4070

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GeForce GTX 1660 Ti

Graphics Card

Apr 2023

Release Date

Feb 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

1500 MHz

2475 MHz

Boost Clock

1770 MHz

1313 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

192bit

504.2GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

46

SM Count

24

-

Compute Units

-

5888

Shading Units

1536

184

TMUs

96

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

84.96 GPixel/s

455.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

169.9 GTexel/s

29.15 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

10.87 TFLOPS

29.15 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.437 TFLOPS

455.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

169.9 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

AD104

GPU Name

TU116

AD104-250-A1

GPU Variant

TU116-400-A1

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

Turing

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

5 nm

Process Size

12 nm

35.8 billion

Transistors

6.6 billion

295 mm²

Die Size

284 mm²

Board Design

200W

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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