NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 12 GB, 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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$ 229.39

$ 312.56 significantly less expensive

$ 541.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

3653 points

12174 points

233% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

82 FPS

289 FPS

207 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

49 FPS

141 FPS

92 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

60 FPS

206 FPS

146 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

37 FPS

114 FPS

77 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

5419 points

40% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

3862 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

722.48 points

5402.96 points

647% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

59886 points

168368 points

181% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

56143 points

158623 points

182% 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

192.1 GB/s

360 GB/s

87% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

120 W

150% 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

134th of 597

31st of 597

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 March

2023 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.6

GeForce GTX 1660 vs GeForce RTX 4070 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 4070 GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 1660 in gaming.

In our comparison, 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 maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the GeForce RTX 4070 has significantly more memory with 12 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 has a significantly lower TDP at 120 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 4070 at 300 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 4070 over the GeForce GTX 1660.