NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 vs AMD Radeon HD 6970 X2

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 AMD Radeon HD 6970 X2

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

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 's Advantages

Boost Clock1785MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.1GB/s vs 176.0GB/s)

Lower TDP (120W vs 375W)

AMD Radeon HD 6970 X2 's Advantages

128 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1660 +85%

5.027 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970 X2

2.703 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1660

VS

Radeon HD 6970 X2

Graphics Card

Mar 2019

Release Date

Unknown

GeForce 16

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1530 MHz

Base Clock

-

1785 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2001 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

192.1GB/s

Bandwidth

176.0GB/s

Render Config

22

SM Count

-

Compute Units

24

1408

Shading Units

1536

88

TMUs

96

48

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

85.68 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

28.16 GPixel/s

157.1 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

84.48 GTexel/s

10.05 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

5.027 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.703 TFLOPS

157.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

TU116

GPU Name

Antilles

TU116-300-A1

GPU Variant

Antilles XT (215-0807027)

Turing

Architecture

TeraScale 3

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

12 nm

Process Size

40 nm

6.6 billion

Transistors

2.64 billion

284 mm²

Die Size

389 mm²

Board Design

120W

TDP

375W

300 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

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

Outputs

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

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

3x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

7.5

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

5.0

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