NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Ti

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Ti 3 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

8113 points

599% significantly better overall score

1159 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

197 FPS

170 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

27 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

96 FPS

81 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

16 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

140 FPS

122 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

18 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

77 FPS

64 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

13 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

13651 points

735% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

1634 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

3380.77 points

2141% significantly higher Blender score

150.80 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

149734 points

1225% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

11298 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

135064 points

822% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

14647 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

99979 points

586% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

14555 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

128209 points

738% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

15295 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

121057 points

650% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

16140 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1500 MHz

63% significantly higher core clock speed

915 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1725 MHz

76% significantly higher boost clock speed

980 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

166% significantly more memory

3 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

33% slightly larger memory bus width

192 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

448 GB/s

210% significantly higher memory bandwidth

144.2 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

220 W

150 W

46% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

165.6 Gigapixels/s

503% significantly higher pixel rate

27.44 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

317.4 Gigatexels/s

189% significantly higher texture rate

109.8 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

20.31 TFLOPS

671% significantly better floating point performance

2.63 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

5888

338% significantly more shading units

1344

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

184

64% significantly more texture mapping units

112

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

300% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

53rd of 586

253rd of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 September

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

11.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

4.5

GeForce RTX 3070 vs GeForce GTX 660 Ti comparison

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 3070 graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 660 Ti in our tests.

In our comparison, the GeForce RTX 3070 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 3070 also has a significantly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the GeForce RTX 3070 has significantly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 3 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 660 Ti has a significantly lower TDP at 150 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 660 Ti.