NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1660 and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 52% (1785MHz vs 1178MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 4GB)

Lower TDP (120W vs 148W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 192.1GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1660 +28%

5.027 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970

3.92 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 1660 +49%

5414

GeForce GTX 970

3622

Blender

GeForce GTX 1660 +160%

787

GeForce GTX 970

302

OctaneBench

GeForce GTX 1660 +43%

112

GeForce GTX 970

78

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GTX 1660 +60%

24

GeForce GTX 970

15

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GTX 1660 +56%

47

GeForce GTX 970

30

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GTX 1660 +82%

73

GeForce GTX 970

40

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce GTX 1660 +19%

50

GeForce GTX 970

42

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce GTX 1660 +18%

52

GeForce GTX 970

44

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 1660 +59%

156

GeForce GTX 970

98

GeForce GTX 1660

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GeForce GTX 970

Graphics Card

Mar 2019

Release Date

Sep 2014

GeForce 16

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1530 MHz

Base Clock

1050 MHz

1785 MHz

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

2001 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

192.1GB/s

Bandwidth

224.4GB/s

Render Config

22

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

1408

Shading Units

1664

88

TMUs

104

48

ROPs

56

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

85.68 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

65.97 GPixel/s

157.1 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

122.5 GTexel/s

10.05 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

5.027 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.920 TFLOPS

157.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

122.5 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

TU116

GPU Name

GM204

TU116-300-A1

GPU Variant

GM204-200-A1

Turing

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

12 nm

Process Size

28 nm

6.6 billion

Transistors

5.2 billion

284 mm²

Die Size

398 mm²

Board Design

120W

TDP

148W

300 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

7.5

CUDA

5.2

6.6

Shader Model

6.4

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