NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 vs AMD Radeon RX 9070
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1660 and 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 9070 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 220W)
AMD Radeon RX 9070 's Advantages
Released 6 years late
Boost Clock has increased by 41% (2520MHz vs 1785MHz)
More VRAM (16GB vs 6GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (644.6GB/s vs 192.1GB/s)
2176 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 1660
5.027 TFLOPS
Radeon RX 9070
+618%
36.13 TFLOPS
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce GTX 1660
5444
Radeon RX 9070
+393%
26876
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce GTX 1660
2465
Radeon RX 9070
+430%
13072
Graphics Card
Mar 2019
Release Date
Mar 2025
GeForce 16
Generation
Navi IV
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 5.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1530 MHz
Base Clock
1330 MHz
1785 MHz
Boost Clock
2520 MHz
2001 MHz
Memory Clock
2518 MHz
Memory
6GB
Memory Size
16GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
192bit
Memory Bus
256bit
192.1GB/s
Bandwidth
644.6GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
56
22
SM Count
-
1408
Shading Units
3584
88
TMUs
224
48
ROPs
128
-
Tensor Cores
112
-
RT Cores
56
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
128 KB per Array
1536 KB
L2 Cache
8 MB
-
L3 Cache
64 MB
Theoretical Performance
85.68 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
322.6 GPixel/s
157.1 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
564.5 GTexel/s
10.05 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
72.25 TFLOPS
5.027 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
36.13 TFLOPS
157.1 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
1129 GFLOPS
Board Design
120W
TDP
220W
300 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
1x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1b
3x DisplayPort 2.1a
1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
TU116
GPU Name
Navi 48
TU116-300-A1
GPU Variant
Navi 48 XT
(215-176600331)
Turing
Architecture
RDNA 4.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
12 nm
Process Size
4 nm
6.6 billion
Transistors
53.9 billion
284 mm²
Die Size
357 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
2.2
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
7.5
CUDA
-
6.6
Shader Model
6.8
