Product Compare

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660

GPU GPU
Graphics Card
Release Date Oct 2014 Mar 2019
Generation GeForce 900M GeForce 16
Type Mobile Desktop
Bus Interface MXM-B (3.0) PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock 924 MHz 1530 MHz
Boost Clock 1038 MHz 1785 MHz
Memory Clock 1253 MHz 2001 MHz
Memory
Memory Size 3GB 6GB
Memory Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Memory Bus 192bit 192bit
Bandwidth 120.3GB/s 192.1GB/s
Render Config
Shading Units 1280 1408
TMUs 80 88
ROPs 48 48
L1 Cache 48 KB (per SMM) 64 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache 1536 KB 1536 KB
SM Count 22
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate 49.82 GPixel/s 85.68 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 83.04 GTexel/s 157.1 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) 2.657 TFLOPS 5.027 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) 83.04 GFLOPS 157.1 GFLOPS
FP16 (half) 10.05 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name GM204 TU116
GPU Variant N16E-GT-A2 TU116-300-A1
Architecture Maxwell 2.0 Turing
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Process Size 28 nm 12 nm
Transistors 5.2 billion 6.6 billion
Die Size 398 mm² 284 mm²
Board Design
TDP Unknown 120W
Outputs Portable Device Dependent 1x DVI1x HDMI 2.01x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors None 1x 8-pin
Suggested PSU 300 W
Graphics Features
DirectX 12 (12_1) 12 (12_1)
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 3.0 3.0
Vulkan 1.3 1.3
CUDA 5.2 7.5
Shader Model 6.7 (6.4) 6.6