
GeForce GTX 1660 Super and Radeon HD 7870 XT - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 1660 Super vs Radeon HD 7870 XT
GeForce GTX 1660 Super
13154
Radeon HD 7870 XT
4603
GeForce GTX 1660 Super
Radeon HD 7870 XT
Architecture
Turing (2018−2021)
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code name
Turing TU116
Tahiti
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
October 2019
November 2012
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 8-pin
2x 6-pin
Boost clock speed
1785 MHz
975 MHz
Core clock speed
1530 MHz
925 MHz
Floating-point performance
-
2,995 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
12 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
6,600 million
4,313 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1408
1536
Power consumption (TDP)
125 Watt
185 Watt
Texture fill rate
157.1
93.60
Memory type
GDDR6
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
6 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
192 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
14000 MHz
6000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
336.0 GB/s
192.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
HDMI
+
+
HDCP
+
-
G-SYNC support
+
-
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (11_1)
CUDA
7.5
-
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.5
5.1
Vulkan
1.2.131
1.2.131
Ansel
+
-
NVENC
+
-