GeForce RTX 5070 vs GeForce GTX 1660 Ti
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5070 and 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1660 Ti to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce RTX 5070 Advantages
Released 6 years and 1 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 42% (2512MHz vs 1770MHz)
More VRAM (12GB vs 6GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (672.0GB/s vs 288.0GB/s)
4608 additional rendering cores
GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Advantages
Lower TDP (120W vs 250W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 5070
+467%
30870
GeForce GTX 1660 Ti
5437
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce RTX 5070
+255%
22544
GeForce GTX 1660 Ti
6346
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce RTX 5070
+274%
10789
GeForce GTX 1660 Ti
2883
Blender
GeForce RTX 5070
+656%
6182
GeForce GTX 1660 Ti
817
Graphics Card
Mar 2025
Release Date
Feb 2019
GeForce 50
Generation
GeForce 16
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 5.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
2325 MHz
Base Clock
1500 MHz
2512 MHz
Boost Clock
1770 MHz
1750 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
Memory
12GB
Memory Size
6GB
GDDR7
Memory Type
GDDR6
192bit
Memory Bus
192bit
672.0GB/s
Bandwidth
288.0GB/s
Render Config
48
SM Count
24
6144
Shading Units
1536
192
TMUs
96
80
ROPs
48
192
Tensor Cores
-
48
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
48 MB
L2 Cache
1536 KB
Theoretical Performance
201.0 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
84.96 GPixel/s
482.3 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
169.9 GTexel/s
30.87 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
10.87 TFLOPS
30.87 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
5.437 TFLOPS
482.3 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
169.9 GFLOPS
Board Design
250W
TDP
120W
600 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
1x HDMI 2.1b
3x DisplayPort 2.1b
3x DisplayPort 2.1b
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
1x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x HDMI 2.0
1x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 16-pin
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GB205
GPU Name
TU116
GB205-300-A1
GPU Variant
TU116-400-A1
Blackwell 2.0
Architecture
Turing
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
5 nm
Process Size
12 nm
31.1 billion
Transistors
6.6 billion
263 mm²
Die Size
284 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.4
Vulkan
1.3
10.1
CUDA
7.5
6.8
Shader Model
6.6
