GeForce GTX 1660 Max-Q and GeForce RTX 3070 Mobile - video card comparison

GeForce GTX 1660 Max-Q

GeForce RTX 3070 Mobile

Architecture

Turing (2018−2021)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

TU116

GN20-E5 GA104

Market segment

Desktop

Laptop

Release date

January 2021

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin

Boost clock speed

1335 MHz

1290 - 1620 MHz

Core clock speed

1140 MHz

780 - 1100 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

12 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

6,600 million

17,400 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

5120

Power consumption (TDP)

125 Watt

Texture fill rate

287.0

Memory type

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

8 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

8000 MHz

14000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

320.0 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

HDMI

DirectX

12.0 (12_1)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

8.5

OpenCL

2.0

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

6.5

Vulkan

1.2