NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 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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$ 229.39

$ 139.61 significantly less expensive

$ 369.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

3653 points

61% significantly better overall score

2262 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

82 FPS

35 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

47 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

49 FPS

14 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

35 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

60 FPS

29 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

31 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

37 FPS

9 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

28 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

5419 points

48% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

3647 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

722.48 points

149% significantly higher Blender score

289.94 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

60503 points

133% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

25908 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

55712 points

91% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

29153 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

51028 points

49% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

34107 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

59886 points

104% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

29277 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

56143 points

73% 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

192.1 GB/s

224.4 GB/s

16% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

120 W

20% 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

133rd of 586

193rd of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 March

2014 September

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

GeForce GTX 1660 vs GeForce GTX 970 benchmarks

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 1660 graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 970 in our tests.

The GeForce GTX 1660 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 also has a significantly 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.

As stated by the manufacturer, the GeForce GTX 1660 has significantly more memory with 6 GiB of memory compared to 4 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 1660 has a slightly lower TDP at 120 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 970 at 145 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

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