AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

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AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

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

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition 's Advantages

640 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 70% (1785MHz vs 1050MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 288.0GB/s)

Lower TDP (125W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

4.301 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER +16%

5.027 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

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GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

Graphics Card

Jun 2012

Release Date

Oct 2019

Southern Islands

Generation

GeForce 16

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1000 MHz

Base Clock

1530 MHz

1050 MHz

Boost Clock

1785 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

384bit

Memory Bus

192bit

288.0GB/s

Bandwidth

336.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

22

32

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

1408

128

TMUs

88

32

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

Theoretical Performance

33.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

85.68 GPixel/s

134.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

157.1 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

10.05 TFLOPS

4.301 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.027 TFLOPS

1075 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

157.1 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

TU116

Tahiti XT2 (215-0821065)

GPU Variant

TU116-300-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Turing

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

12 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

6.6 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

284 mm²

Board Design

300W

TDP

125W

700 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

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CUDA

7.5

5.1

Shader Model

6.6

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