NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1660 and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4070 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 's Advantages

Lower TDP (120W vs 200W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 39% (2475MHz vs 1785MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (504.2GB/s vs 192.1GB/s)

4480 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1660

5.027 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4070 +479%

29.15 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 1660

5414

GeForce RTX 4070 +229%

17861

Blender

GeForce GTX 1660

787

GeForce RTX 4070 +665%

6026

OctaneBench

GeForce GTX 1660

112

GeForce RTX 4070 +473%

642

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GTX 1660

24

GeForce RTX 4070 +241%

82

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GTX 1660

47

GeForce RTX 4070 +240%

160

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GTX 1660

73

GeForce RTX 4070 +250%

256

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce GTX 1660

40

GeForce RTX 4070 +145%

98

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce GTX 1660

73

GeForce RTX 4070 +135%

172

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 1660

91

GeForce RTX 4070 +119%

200

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce GTX 1660

50

GeForce RTX 4070 +188%

144

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce GTX 1660

52

GeForce RTX 4070 +176%

144

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 1660

156

GeForce RTX 4070 +21%

190

GeForce GTX 1660

VS

GeForce RTX 4070

Graphics Card

Mar 2019

Release Date

Apr 2023

GeForce 16

Generation

GeForce 40

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1530 MHz

Base Clock

1920 MHz

1785 MHz

Boost Clock

2475 MHz

2001 MHz

Memory Clock

1313 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6X

192bit

Memory Bus

192bit

192.1GB/s

Bandwidth

504.2GB/s

Render Config

22

SM Count

46

-

Compute Units

-

1408

Shading Units

5888

88

TMUs

184

48

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

184

-

RT Cores

46

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

36 MB

Theoretical Performance

85.68 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

158.4 GPixel/s

157.1 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

455.4 GTexel/s

10.05 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

29.15 TFLOPS

5.027 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

29.15 TFLOPS

157.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

455.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

TU116

GPU Name

AD104

TU116-300-A1

GPU Variant

AD104-250-A1

Turing

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

12 nm

Process Size

5 nm

6.6 billion

Transistors

35.8 billion

284 mm²

Die Size

295 mm²

Board Design

120W

TDP

200W

300 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 16-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

7.5

CUDA

8.9

6.6

Shader Model

6.7

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