NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER vs AMD FirePro W7170M

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER and AMD FirePro W7170M videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 0 month(s) later
  • 2.1x more core clock speed: 1530 MHz vs 723 MHz
  • 1697.6x more texture fill rate: 157.1 GTexel/s vs 92.54 GTexel / s
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 12 nm vs 28 nm
  • Around 50% higher maximum memory size: 6 GB vs 4 GB
  • 4x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 12776 vs 3162
  • Around 94% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 810 vs 418
  • Around 23% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 62624 vs 50809
  • 2.6x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 17812 vs 6796
  • 2.6x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 17812 vs 6796
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 29 Oct 2019 vs 2 October 2015
Core clock speed 1530 MHz vs 723 MHz
Texture fill rate 157.1 GTexel/s vs 92.54 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology 12 nm vs 28 nm
Maximum memory size 6 GB vs 4 GB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 12776 vs 3162
PassMark - G2D Mark 810 vs 418
Geekbench - OpenCL 62624 vs 50809
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 17812 vs 6796
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 17812 vs 6796

Reasons to consider the AMD FirePro W7170M

  • Around 45% higher pipelines: 2048 vs 1408
  • Around 25% lower typical power consumption: 100 Watt vs 125 Watt
Specifications (specs)
Pipelines 2048 vs 1408
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 100 Watt vs 125 Watt
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3722 vs 3717
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3362 vs 3351
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3722 vs 3717
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3362 vs 3351

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER
GPU 2: AMD FirePro W7170M

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
12776
3162
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
810
418
Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
62624
50809
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
17812
6796
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3717
3722
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3351
3362
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
17812
6796
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3717
3722
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3351
3362
Name NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER AMD FirePro W7170M
PassMark - G3D Mark 12776 3162
PassMark - G2D Mark 810 418
Geekbench - OpenCL 62624 50809
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 187.131
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 2548.187
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 15.882
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 117.673
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 901.388
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 17812 6796
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3717 3722
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3351 3362
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 17812 6796
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3717 3722
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3351 3362
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 5978

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER AMD FirePro W7170M

Essentials

Architecture Turing GCN 3.0
Code name TU116 Amethyst
Launch date 29 Oct 2019 2 October 2015
Launch price (MSRP) $229
Place in performance rating 207 420
Type Desktop Mobile workstation

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1785 MHz
Core clock speed 1530 MHz 723 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 12 nm 28 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 157.1 GFLOPS (1:32)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 10.05 TFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 5.027 TFLOPS
Pipelines 1408 2048
Pixel fill rate 85.68 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 157.1 GTexel/s 92.54 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 125 Watt 100 Watt
Transistor count 6600 million 5,000 million
Floating-point performance 2,961 gflops

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Length 9 inches (229 mm)
Recommended system power (PSU) 350 Watt
Supplementary power connectors 1x 8-pin None
Width Dual-slot
Laptop size large

API support

DirectX 12.1 12.0 (12_0)
OpenCL 1.2
OpenGL 4.6 4.5
Shader Model 6.4
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 6 GB 4 GB
Memory bandwidth 336.0 GB/s 160.0 GB / s
Memory bus width 192 bit 256 Bit
Memory type GDDR6 GDDR5
Memory clock speed 5000 MHz
Shared memory 0

Technologies

AMD Eyefinity
AppAcceleration
Enduro