NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 660 and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 's Advantages
Lower TDP (140W vs 150W)
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 3 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 63% (1683MHz vs 1032MHz)
More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.3GB/s vs 144.2GB/s)
960 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 660
1.981 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X
+226%
6.463 TFLOPS
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce GTX 660
1194
GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X
+409%
6078
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce GTX 660
260
GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X
+986%
2825
Blender
GeForce GTX 660
111
GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X
+491%
657
OctaneBench
GeForce GTX 660
27
GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X
+325%
115
Graphics Card
Sep 2012
Release Date
Dec 2018
GeForce 600
Generation
GeForce 10
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
980 MHz
Base Clock
1506 MHz
1032 MHz
Boost Clock
1683 MHz
1502 MHz
Memory Clock
1001 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5X
192bit
Memory Bus
256bit
144.2GB/s
Bandwidth
256.3GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
SM Count
15
960
Shading Units
1920
80
TMUs
120
24
ROPs
64
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per SMX)
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SM)
384 KB
L2 Cache
2 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
20.64 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
107.7 GPixel/s
82.56 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
202.0 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
101.0 GFLOPS
1.981 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
6.463 TFLOPS
82.56 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
202.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
140W
TDP
150W
300 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GK106
GPU Name
GP104
GK106-400-A1
GPU Variant
GP104-200-A1
Kepler
Architecture
Pascal
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
16 nm
2.54 billion
Transistors
7.2 billion
221 mm²
Die Size
314 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.1
Vulkan
1.3
3.0
CUDA
6.1
5.1
Shader Model
6.4
