Radeon HD 7870 and GeForce GTX 1660 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 7870 vs GeForce GTX 1660
Radeon HD 7870
4779
GeForce GTX 1660
12040
Radeon HD 7870
GeForce GTX 1660
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
Turing (2018−2021)
GPU code name
Pitcairn XT
Turing TU116
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
March 2012
March 2019
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pin
1x 8-pin
Boost clock speed
-
1785 MHz
Core clock speed
1000 MHz
1530 MHz
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
12 nm
Number of transistors
2800 Million
6,600 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1280
1408
Power consumption (TDP)
175 Watt
120 Watt
Texture fill rate
80.00
157.1
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
6 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
192 Bit
Memory clock speed
4800 MHz
8000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
153.6 GB/s
192.1 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
Eyefinity
+
-
HDMI
+
+
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 (12_1)
CUDA
-
7.5
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
6.5
Vulkan
1.2.131
1.2.131