NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 vs AMD Radeon RX 6700

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 6 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 6700 10 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 229.39
$ 54.40 slightly less expensive
$ 283.79

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

3653 points
5776 points
58% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

82 FPS
116 FPS
34 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

49 FPS
87 FPS
38 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

60 FPS
103 FPS
43 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

37 FPS
50 FPS
13 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

5419 points
170% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score
2007 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

722.48 points
1351.36 points
87% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

59886 points
92543 points
54% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

56143 points
107859 points
92% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1530 MHz
1941 MHz
26% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1785 MHz
2450 MHz
37% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

6 GiB
10 GiB
66% 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
320 GB/s
66% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

120 W
45% significantly lower TDP
175 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

85.68 Gigapixels/s
156.8 Gigapixels/s
83% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

157.1 Gigatexels/s
352.8 Gigatexels/s
124% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.03 TFLOPS
11.29 TFLOPS
124% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1408
2304
63% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

88
144
63% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

48
64
33% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

133rd of 586
86th of 586

Family

The product line

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Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 March
2021 June

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5
GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5
4.6

GeForce GTX 1660 vs Radeon RX 6700 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon RX 6700 GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 1660 in gaming.

In our comparison, the Radeon RX 6700 has a slightly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. In addition, the Radeon RX 6700 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.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the Radeon RX 6700 has significantly more memory with 10 GiB of memory compared to 6 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 significantly lower TDP at 120 W when compared to the Radeon RX 6700 at 175 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the Radeon RX 6700 is better than the GeForce GTX 1660.

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