NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

Price

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$ 191.88

$ 177.12 significantly less expensive

$ 369.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

3755 points

66% significantly better overall score

2262 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

84 FPS

37 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

47 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

50 FPS

15 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

35 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

61 FPS

29 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

31 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

38 FPS

10 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

28 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

6047 points

65% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

3647 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

776.88 points

167% significantly higher Blender score

289.94 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

65154 points

151% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

25908 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

60772 points

108% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

29153 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

55624 points

63% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

34107 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

64068 points

118% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

29277 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

60513 points

87% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

32348 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1530 MHz

45% significantly higher core clock speed

1050 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1785 MHz

51% significantly higher boost clock speed

1178 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

6 GiB

49% significantly more memory

4 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit

256 Bit

33% slightly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

336 GB/s

49% significantly higher memory bandwidth

224.4 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

125 W

16% slightly lower TDP

145 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

85.68 Gigapixels/s

29% slightly higher pixel rate

65.97 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

157.1 Gigatexels/s

28% slightly higher texture rate

122.5 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.03 TFLOPS

28% slightly better floating point performance

3.92 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1408

1664

18% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

104

18% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

16% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

130th of 586

193rd of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 October

2014 September

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

4.5

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER vs GeForce GTX 970 comparison

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER beats the GeForce GTX 970 in gaming performance.

Our database shows that the GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER 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 1660 SUPER 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 1660 SUPER has significantly more memory with 6 GiB of memory compared to 4 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER has a slightly lower TDP at 125 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 970 at 145 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER is better than the GeForce GTX 970.