GPU Comparison

A

AMD

RADEON

AMD Radeon HD 6970

CORE STATE Cayman

VRAM 2 GB

CLOCK SPEED —

TDP 250 W

BUS WIDTH 256 bit

ARCHITECTURE TeraScale 3

nm

PROCESS 40 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2010

VS

NVIDIA

GEFORCE

GeForce GTX 1660

CORE STATE TU116

VRAM 6 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1785 MHz

TDP 120 W

BUS WIDTH 192 bit

ARCHITECTURE Turing

nm

PROCESS 12 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2019

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

N/A

1,065

geekbench_opencl

N/A

57,988

geekbench_vulkan

N/A

55,845

passmark_directx_10

N/A

61

passmark_directx_11

N/A

79

passmark_directx_12

N/A

49

passmark_directx_9

N/A

177

passmark_g2d

N/A

776

passmark_g3d

N/A

11,646

passmark_gpu_compute

N/A

4,963

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

HD 6970

GTX 1660

Core Specs

Shading Units

1,536

1,408 -8.3%

Shaders

1,536

1,408 -8.3%

TMUs

96

88 -8.3%

ROPs

32

48 +50.0%

Compute Units

24

—

SM Count

—

22

Clocks

Base Clock

—

1530 MHz

Boost Clock

—

1785 MHz

GPU Clock

880 MHz

—

Memory Clock

1375 MHz 5.5 Gbps effective

2001 MHz 8 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

2 GB

6 GB

VRAM (MB)

2,048

6,144 +200.0%

Memory Type

GDDR5

GDDR5

Memory Bus

256 bit

192 bit

Bandwidth

176.0 GB/s

192.1 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

64 KB (per SM)

L2 Cache

512 KB

1536 KB

Performance

Pixel Rate

28.16 GPixel/s

85.68 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

84.48 GTexel/s

157.1 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

2.703 TFLOPS

5.027 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

675.8 GFLOPS (1:4)

157.1 GFLOPS (1:32)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

—

10.05 TFLOPS (2:1)

Power

TDP

250 W

120 W

TDP (W)

250

120 -52.0%

Suggested PSU

600 W

300 W

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

1x 8-pin

Architecture

Architecture

TeraScale 3

Turing

GPU Name

Cayman

TU116

Generation

Northern Islands (HD 6900)

GeForce 16

Process Size

40 nm

12 nm

Transistors

2,640 million

6,600 million

Die Size

389 mm²

284 mm²

Foundry

TSMC

TSMC

Density

6.8M / mm²

23.2M / mm²

API Support

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

12 (12_1)

OpenGL

4.4

4.6

Vulkan

—

1.4

OpenCL

1.2

3.0

CUDA

—

7.5

Shader Model

5.0

6.8

Physical

Slot Width

Dual-slot

Dual-slot

Length

286 mm 11.3 inches

229 mm 9 inches

Height

126 mm 5 inches

111 mm 4.4 inches

Outputs

2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

1x DVI1x HDMI 2.01x DisplayPort 1.4a

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

PCIe 3.0 x16

Other

Launch Price

369 USD

219 USD

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

Evergreen

GeForce 10

Successor

Southern Islands

GeForce 20

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