NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 vs ATI Radeon HD 5970

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 ATI Radeon HD 5970

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1660 and 1024MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 5970 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1785MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.1GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)

Lower TDP (120W vs 294W)

ATI Radeon HD 5970 's Advantages

192 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1660 +116%

5.027 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

2.32 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1660

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ATI Radeon HD 5970

Graphics Card

Mar 2019

Release Date

Nov 2009

GeForce 16

Generation

Evergreen

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

1000 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

192.1GB/s

Bandwidth

128.0GB/s

Render Config

22

SM Count

-

Compute Units

20

1408

Shading Units

1600

88

TMUs

80

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

23.20 GPixel/s

157.1 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

58.00 GTexel/s

10.05 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

5.027 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.320 TFLOPS

157.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

464.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

TU116

GPU Name

Hemlock

TU116-300-A1

GPU Variant

Hemlock XT (215-0735075)

Turing

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

12 nm

Process Size

40 nm

6.6 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

284 mm²

Die Size

334 mm²

Board Design

120W

TDP

294W

300 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 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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