NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 vs AMD Radeon HD 7670A

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 and AMD Radeon HD 7670A videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. 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

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 7 year(s) 2 month(s) later
  • 2.6x more core clock speed: 1530 MHz vs 600 MHz
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 12 nm vs 40 nm
  • 2x more memory clock speed: 8004 MHz vs 4000 MHz
  • 11.1x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 11691 vs 1050
  • Around 11% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 782 vs 702
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 14 March 2019 vs 5 January 2012
Core clock speed 1530 MHz vs 600 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 12 nm vs 40 nm
Memory clock speed 8004 MHz vs 4000 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 11691 vs 1050
PassMark - G2D Mark 782 vs 702

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7670A

  • 2.7x lower typical power consumption: 45 Watt vs 120 Watt
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 45 Watt vs 120 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 7670A

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
11691
1050
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
782
702
Name NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 AMD Radeon HD 7670A
PassMark - G3D Mark 11691 1050
PassMark - G2D Mark 782 702
Geekbench - OpenCL 57152
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 190.366
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 1892.505
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 13.492
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 118.54
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 887.857
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 14998
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3717
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3359
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 14998
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3717
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3359
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 5414

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 AMD Radeon HD 7670A

Essentials

Architecture Turing TeraScale 2
Code name TU116 Turks
Launch date 14 March 2019 5 January 2012
Launch price (MSRP) $219
Place in performance rating 241 163
Type Desktop Desktop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1785 MHz
Core clock speed 1530 MHz 600 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 12 nm 40 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 120 Watt 45 Watt
Transistor count 6,600 million 716 million
Floating-point performance 576.0 gflops
Pipelines 480
Texture fill rate 14.4 GTexel / s

Video outputs and ports

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

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 MXM-A (3.0)
Length 229 mm
Supplementary power connectors 1x 8-pin

API support

DirectX 12.0 11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL 4.6 4.4

Memory

Memory clock speed 8004 MHz 4000 MHz
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB
Memory bandwidth 64 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 Bit
Memory type GDDR5