NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1660 and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1070 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 6% (1785MHz vs 1683MHz)

Lower TDP (120W vs 150W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 's Advantages

More VRAM (8GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.3GB/s vs 192.1GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1660

5.027 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1070 +28%

6.463 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 1660

5414

GeForce GTX 1070 +12%

6065

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GTX 1660

24

GeForce GTX 1070 +8%

26

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GTX 1660

47

GeForce GTX 1070 +6%

50

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GTX 1660

73

GeForce GTX 1070 +5%

77

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce GTX 1660

40

GeForce GTX 1070 +7%

43

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce GTX 1660

73

GeForce GTX 1070 +8%

79

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 1660

91

GeForce GTX 1070 +9%

100

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce GTX 1660 +4%

50

GeForce GTX 1070

48

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce GTX 1660

52

GeForce GTX 1070 +61%

84

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 1660 +5%

156

GeForce GTX 1070

148

GeForce GTX 1660

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GeForce GTX 1070

Graphics Card

Mar 2019

Release Date

Jun 2016

GeForce 16

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1530 MHz

Base Clock

1506 MHz

1785 MHz

Boost Clock

1683 MHz

2001 MHz

Memory Clock

2002 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

192.1GB/s

Bandwidth

256.3GB/s

Render Config

22

SM Count

15

-

Compute Units

-

1408

Shading Units

1920

88

TMUs

120

48

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

85.68 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

107.7 GPixel/s

157.1 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

202.0 GTexel/s

10.05 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

101.0 GFLOPS

5.027 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.463 TFLOPS

157.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

202.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

TU116

GPU Name

GP104

TU116-300-A1

GPU Variant

GP104-200-A1

Turing

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

12 nm

Process Size

16 nm

6.6 billion

Transistors

7.2 billion

284 mm²

Die Size

314 mm²

Board Design

120W

TDP

150W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 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

1x 8-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

6.1

6.6

Shader Model

6.4

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