Product Compare
AMD Radeon HD 7970 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660
| GPU | GPU | |
|---|---|---|
| Graphics Card | ||
| Release Date | Jan 2012 | Mar 2019 |
| Generation | Southern Islands | GeForce 16 |
| Type | Desktop | Desktop |
| Bus Interface | PCIe 3.0 x16 | PCIe 3.0 x16 |
| Clock Speeds | ||
| Memory Clock | 1375 MHz | 2001 MHz |
| Base Clock | 1530 MHz | |
| Boost Clock | 1785 MHz | |
| Memory | ||
| Memory Size | 3GB | 6GB |
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | GDDR5 |
| Memory Bus | 384bit | 192bit |
| Bandwidth | 264.0GB/s | 192.1GB/s |
| Render Config | ||
| Compute Units | 32 | |
| Shading Units | 2048 | 1408 |
| TMUs | 128 | 88 |
| ROPs | 32 | 48 |
| L1 Cache | 16 KB (per CU) | 64 KB (per SM) |
| L2 Cache | 768 KB | 1536 KB |
| SM Count | 22 | |
| Theoretical Performance | ||
| Pixel Rate | 29.60 GPixel/s | 85.68 GPixel/s |
| Texture Rate | 118.4 GTexel/s | 157.1 GTexel/s |
| FP32 (float) | 3.789 TFLOPS | 5.027 TFLOPS |
| FP64 (double) | 947.2 GFLOPS | 157.1 GFLOPS |
| FP16 (half) | 10.05 TFLOPS | |
| Graphics Processor | ||
| GPU Name | Tahiti | TU116 |
| GPU Variant | Tahiti XT(215-0821060) | TU116-300-A1 |
| Architecture | GCN 1.0 | Turing |
| Foundry | TSMC | TSMC |
| Process Size | 28 nm | 12 nm |
| Transistors | 4.313 billion | 6.6 billion |
| Die Size | 352 mm² | 284 mm² |
| Board Design | ||
| TDP | 250W | 120W |
| Suggested PSU | 600 W | 300 W |
| Outputs | 1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2 | 1x DVI1x HDMI 2.01x DisplayPort 1.4a |
| Power Connectors | 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin | 1x 8-pin |
| Graphics Features | ||
| DirectX | 12 (11_1) | 12 (12_1) |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| OpenCL | 2.1 (1.2) | 3.0 |
| Vulkan | 1.2.170 | 1.3 |
| Shader Model | 6.5 (5.1) | 6.6 |
| CUDA | 7.5 | |
| Benchmarks | ||
| 3DMark Time Spy | 2310 | 5444 |
| 3DMark Time Spy Extreme | 1209 | 2465 |