AMD Radeon HD 6970 X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6970 X2

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970 X2 and 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6970 X2 's Advantages

128 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER 's Advantages

Boost Clock1785MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 176.0GB/s)

Lower TDP (125W vs 375W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6970 X2

2.703 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER +85%

5.027 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970 X2

VS

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Oct 2019

Northern Islands

Generation

GeForce 16

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1530 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1785 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

176.0GB/s

Bandwidth

336.0GB/s

Render Config

24

Compute Units

-

SM Count

22

1536

Shading Units

1408

96

TMUs

88

32

ROPs

48

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

28.16 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

85.68 GPixel/s

84.48 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

157.1 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

10.05 TFLOPS

2.703 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.027 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

157.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

375W

TDP

125W

750 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

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

3x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Antilles

GPU Name

TU116

Antilles XT (215-0807027)

GPU Variant

TU116-300-A1

TeraScale 3

Architecture

Turing

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

12 nm

2.64 billion

Transistors

6.6 billion

389 mm²

Die Size

284 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

7.5

5.0

Shader Model

6.6

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