NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti

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

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti

Price

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$ 174.97

$ 464.03 significantly less expensive

$ 639.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

3968 points

8845 points

122% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

88 FPS

210 FPS

122 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

53 FPS

104 FPS

51 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

64 FPS

151 FPS

87 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

40 FPS

83 FPS

43 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

98 FPS

19 FPS slightly higher Far Cry 6 FPS

Fortnite FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

85 FPS

152 FPS

67 FPS significantly higher Fortnite FPS

God of War FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

46 FPS

118 FPS

72 FPS significantly higher God of War FPS

Red Dead Redemption 2 FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

45 FPS

101 FPS

56 FPS significantly higher Red Dead Redemption 2 FPS

Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered FPS

Very High settings at 1080p

86 FPS

113 FPS

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

Forza Horizon 5 FPS

Low settings at 1080p

76 FPS

102 FPS

26 FPS significantly higher Forza Horizon 5 FPS

Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

6332 points

14857 points

134% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

799.88 points

3754.04 points

369% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

66368 points

165866 points

149% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

61373 points

147200 points

139% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

53550 points

104828 points

95% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

65938 points

138062 points

109% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

62004 points

131952 points

112% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1500 MHz

1575 MHz

5% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1770 MHz

Identical

1770 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

608.3 GB/s

111% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

120 W

141% significantly lower TDP

290 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

84.96 Gigapixels/s

169.9 Gigapixels/s

99% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

169.9 Gigatexels/s

339.8 Gigatexels/s

100% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.44 TFLOPS

21.75 TFLOPS

300% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1536

6144

300% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

192

100% 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

45th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 February

2021 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

GDDR6X

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 Ti comparison

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti in our tests.

The GeForce RTX 3070 Ti has a slightly 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.

As stated by the manufacturer, the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti 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 Ti at 290 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti over the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti.