AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

VS

AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7870 XT 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 7870 XT 's Advantages

128 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 83% (1785MHz vs 975MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 192.0GB/s)

Lower TDP (125W vs 185W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7870 XT

2.995 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER +67%

5.027 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7870 XT

VS

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

Graphics Card

Nov 2012

Release Date

Oct 2019

Southern Islands

Generation

GeForce 16

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

925 MHz

Base Clock

1530 MHz

975 MHz

Boost Clock

1785 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

192.0GB/s

Bandwidth

336.0GB/s

Render Config

24

Compute Units

-

SM Count

22

1536

Shading Units

1408

96

TMUs

88

32

ROPs

48

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

31.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

85.68 GPixel/s

93.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

157.1 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

10.05 TFLOPS

2.995 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.027 TFLOPS

748.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

157.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

185W

TDP

125W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

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

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

TU116

Tahiti LE (215-0821122)

GPU Variant

TU116-300-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Turing

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

12 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

6.6 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

284 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

7.5

5.1

Shader Model

6.6

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