NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Ti

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Ti 3 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

3644 points

214% significantly better overall score

1159 points

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

72 FPS

46 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

27 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

59 FPS

43 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

16 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

46 FPS

28 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

18 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

48 FPS

35 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

13 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

6047 points

270% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

1634 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

558.86 points

270% significantly higher Blender score

150.80 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

45558 points

303% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

11298 points

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

18801 points

181% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

6670 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

47750 points

226% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

14647 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

53125 points

264% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

14555 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

18801 points

181% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

6670 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

50172 points

228% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

15295 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

49876 points

209% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

16140 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1506 MHz

64% significantly higher core clock speed

915 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1683 MHz

71% significantly higher boost clock speed

980 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

166% significantly more memory

3 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

33% slightly larger memory bus width

192 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

256.30 GB/s

77% significantly higher memory bandwidth

144.2 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

150 W

Identical

150 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

107.7 Gigapixels/s

292% significantly higher pixel rate

27.44 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

202 Gigatexels/s

83% significantly higher texture rate

109.8 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

6.46 TFLOPS

145% significantly better floating point performance

2.63 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1920

42% many more shading units

1344

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

120

7% slightly more texture mapping units

112

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

166% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

134th of 586

253rd of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 June

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

11.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

GeForce GTX 1070 vs GeForce GTX 660 Ti benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GTX 1070 beats the GeForce GTX 660 Ti in gaming performance.

The GeForce GTX 1070 has a significantly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. In addition, the GeForce GTX 1070 also has a significantly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

As stated by the manufacturer, the GeForce GTX 1070 has significantly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 3 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, both the GeForce GTX 1070 and the GeForce GTX 660 Ti have an identical TDP. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GTX 1070 over the GeForce GTX 660 Ti.