Product Compare

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

GPU GPU
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