NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER vs AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock1785MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 264.0GB/s)

Lower TDP (125W vs 500W)

AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2 's Advantages

640 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER +32%

5.027 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970 X2

3.789 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

VS

Radeon HD 7970 X2

Graphics Card

Oct 2019

Release Date

Aug 2012

GeForce 16

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1530 MHz

Base Clock

-

1785 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

384bit

336.0GB/s

Bandwidth

264.0GB/s

Render Config

22

SM Count

-

Compute Units

32

1408

Shading Units

2048

88

TMUs

128

48

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

85.68 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

157.1 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

118.4 GTexel/s

10.05 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

5.027 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.789 TFLOPS

157.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

947.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

TU116

GPU Name

New Zealand

TU116-300-A1

GPU Variant

-

Turing

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

12 nm

Process Size

28 nm

6.6 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

284 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Board Design

125W

TDP

500W

300 W

Suggested PSU

900 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

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

7.5

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

5.1

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