NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 8 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070

Price

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$ 174.97

$ 384.33 significantly less expensive

$ 559.30

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

3968 points

8113 points

104% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

88 FPS

197 FPS

109 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

53 FPS

96 FPS

43 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

64 FPS

140 FPS

76 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

40 FPS

77 FPS

37 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Gaming Benchmarks

ELDEN RING FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

60 FPS

Identical

60 FPS

Far Cry 6 FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

79 FPS

108 FPS

29 FPS significantly higher Far Cry 6 FPS

Red Dead Redemption 2 FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

45 FPS

76 FPS

31 FPS significantly higher Red Dead Redemption 2 FPS

Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered FPS

Very High settings at 1080p

86 FPS

122 FPS

36 FPS significantly higher Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered FPS

Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

6332 points

13651 points

115% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

799.88 points

3380.77 points

322% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

66368 points

149734 points

125% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

61373 points

135064 points

120% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

53550 points

99979 points

86% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

65938 points

128209 points

94% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

62004 points

121057 points

95% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1500 MHz

Identical

1500 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1770 MHz

2% slightly higher boost clock speed

1725 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

6 GiB

8 GiB

33% slightly more memory

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

288 GB/s

448 GB/s

55% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

120 W

83% significantly lower TDP

220 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

84.96 Gigapixels/s

165.6 Gigapixels/s

94% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

169.9 Gigatexels/s

317.4 Gigatexels/s

86% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.44 TFLOPS

20.31 TFLOPS

273% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1536

5888

283% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

184

91% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

124th of 586

53rd of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 February

2020 September

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 Ti vs GeForce RTX 3070 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 3070 GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti in gaming.

By comparing the spec sheets, both the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti and the GeForce RTX 3070 have the same base clock speed. Despite this, the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti 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.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the GeForce RTX 3070 has slightly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 6 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti has a significantly lower TDP at 120 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3070 at 220 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce RTX 3070 is faster than the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti.