AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti

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AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition and 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1660 Ti to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition 's Advantages

512 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 69% (1770MHz vs 1050MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 3GB)

Lower TDP (120W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

4.301 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1660 Ti +26%

5.437 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

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GeForce GTX 1660 Ti

Graphics Card

Jun 2012

Release Date

Feb 2019

Southern Islands

Generation

GeForce 16

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1000 MHz

Base Clock

1500 MHz

1050 MHz

Boost Clock

1770 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

384bit

Memory Bus

192bit

288.0GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

-

SM Count

24

2048

Shading Units

1536

128

TMUs

96

32

ROPs

48

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

33.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

84.96 GPixel/s

134.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

169.9 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

10.87 TFLOPS

4.301 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.437 TFLOPS

1075 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

169.9 GFLOPS

Board Design

300W

TDP

120W

700 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

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

TU116

Tahiti XT2 (215-0821065)

GPU Variant

TU116-400-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

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CUDA

7.5

5.1

Shader Model

6.6

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