NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070

Price

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$ 191.88

$ 350.07 significantly less expensive

$ 541.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

3755 points

12174 points

224% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

84 FPS

289 FPS

205 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

50 FPS

141 FPS

92 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

61 FPS

206 FPS

146 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

38 FPS

114 FPS

77 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Gaming Benchmarks

Forza Horizon 5 FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

78 FPS

108 FPS

30 FPS significantly higher Forza Horizon 5 FPS

Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

6047 points

56% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

3862 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

776.88 points

5402.96 points

595% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

64068 points

168368 points

162% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

60513 points

158623 points

162% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1530 MHz

2190 MHz

43% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1785 MHz

2430 MHz

36% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

6 GiB

12 GiB

100% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit

20% slightly larger memory bus width

160 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

336 GB/s

360 GB/s

7% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

125 W

139% significantly lower TDP

300 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

85.68 Gigapixels/s

194.4 Gigapixels/s

126% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

157.1 Gigatexels/s

544.3 Gigatexels/s

246% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.03 TFLOPS

34.84 TFLOPS

593% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1408

7168

409% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

224

154% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

66% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

129th of 586

31st of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 October

2023 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER vs GeForce RTX 4070 specs and performance

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 4070 graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER in our tests.

The GeForce RTX 4070 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 RTX 4070 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER has a significantly lower TDP at 125 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 4070 at 300 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce RTX 4070 is faster than the GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER.