AMD Radeon HD 6970 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Max Q

GPU Specs Compare

Graphics Card

Release Date
Dec 2010
Apr 2019
Generation
Northern Islands
GeForce 16 Mobile
Type
Desktop
Mobile
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

Memory Clock
1375 MHz
1500 MHz
Base Clock
-
1140 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1335 MHz

Memory

Memory Size
2GB
6GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Bus
256bit
192bit
Bandwidth
176.0GB/s
288.0GB/s

Render Config

Compute Units
24
-
Shading Units
1536
1536
TMUs
96
96
ROPs
32
48
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
64 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
512 KB
1536 KB
SM Count
-
24

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate
28.16 GPixel/s
64.08 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
84.48 GTexel/s
128.2 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.703 TFLOPS
4.101 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
675.8 GFLOPS
128.2 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
8.202 TFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GPU Name
Cayman
TU116
GPU Variant
Cayman XT(215-0807007)
-
Architecture
TeraScale 3
Turing
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
40 nm
12 nm
Transistors
2.64 billion
6.6 billion
Die Size
389 mm²
284 mm²

Board Design

TDP
250W
Unknown
Suggested PSU
600 W
-
Outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Portable Device Dependent
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
None

Graphics Features

DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
3.0
Vulkan
N/A
1.3
Shader Model
5.0
6.7
CUDA
-
7.5

📊 Benchmark

3DMark Time Spy
-
4,973
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
-
2,304
Blender
-
870