GPU Comparison

NVIDIA

GEFORCE

NVIDIA 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

VS

NVIDIA

GEFORCE

GeForce GTX 970M

CORE STATE GM204

VRAM 6 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1038 MHz

TDP —

BUS WIDTH 192 bit

ARCHITECTURE Maxwell 2.0

nm

PROCESS 28 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2014

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

1,065

472

geekbench_opencl

57,988

18,991

geekbench_vulkan

55,845

18,516

passmark_directx_10

61

28

passmark_directx_11

79

42

passmark_directx_12

49

24

passmark_directx_9

177

99

passmark_g2d

776

381

passmark_g3d

11,646

5,704

passmark_gpu_compute

4,963

2,289

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

GTX 1660

GTX 970M

Core Specs

Shading Units

1,408

1,280 -9.1%

Shaders

1,408

1,280 -9.1%

TMUs

88

80 -9.1%

ROPs

48

48 0.0%

SM Count

22

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Clocks

Base Clock

1530 MHz

924 MHz

Boost Clock

1785 MHz

1038 MHz

Memory Clock

2001 MHz 8 Gbps effective

1253 MHz 5 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

6 GB

6 GB

VRAM (MB)

6,144

6,144 0.0%

Memory Type

GDDR5

GDDR5

Memory Bus

192 bit

192 bit

Bandwidth

192.1 GB/s

120.3 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

48 KB (per SMM)

L2 Cache

1536 KB

1536 KB

Performance

Pixel Rate

85.68 GPixel/s

49.82 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

157.1 GTexel/s

83.04 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

5.027 TFLOPS

2.657 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

157.1 GFLOPS (1:32)

83.04 GFLOPS (1:32)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

10.05 TFLOPS (2:1)

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Power

TDP

120 W

—

TDP (W)

120

—

Suggested PSU

300 W

—

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

None

Architecture

Architecture

Turing

Maxwell 2.0

GPU Name

TU116

GM204

Generation

GeForce 16

GeForce 900M

Process Size

12 nm

28 nm

Transistors

6,600 million

5,200 million

Die Size

284 mm²

398 mm²

Foundry

TSMC

TSMC

Density

23.2M / mm²

13.1M / mm²

API Support

DirectX

12 (12_1)

12 (12_1)

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Vulkan

1.4

1.4

OpenCL

3.0

3.0

CUDA

7.5

5.2

Shader Model

6.8

6.8

Physical

Slot Width

Dual-slot

MXM Module

Length

229 mm 9 inches

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Height

111 mm 4.4 inches

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Outputs

1x DVI1x HDMI 2.01x DisplayPort 1.4a

Portable Device Dependent

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

MXM-B (3.0)

Other

Launch Price

219 USD

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Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

GeForce 10

GeForce 800M

Successor

GeForce 20

GeForce 10 Mobile

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