GeForce GTX 1660 vs GT 710 PCI

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot rated180
Place by popularitynot in top-10057
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data49.15
Power efficiencyno data18.21
ArchitectureFermi 2.0 (2010−2014)Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code nameGF119TU116
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date2 April 2012 (12 years ago)14 March 2019 (5 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$219

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores481408
Core clock speed810 MHz1530 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1785 MHz
Number of transistors292 million6,600 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)29 Watt120 Watt
Texture fill rate6.480157.1
Floating-point processing power0.1555 TFLOPS5.027 TFLOPS
ROPs448
TMUs888

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIPCIe 3.0 x16
Length168 mm229 mm
Width1-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNone1x 8-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeDDR3GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount512 MB6 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit192 Bit
Memory clock speed667 MHz2001 MHz
Memory bandwidth10.67 GB/s192.1 GB/s
Shared memoryno data-

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
HDMI++

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 (11_0)12 (12_1)
Shader Model5.16.5
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.11.2
VulkanN/A1.2.131
CUDA2.17.5

Pros & cons summary


Recency 2 April 2012 14 March 2019
Maximum RAM amount 512 MB 6 GB
Chip lithography 40 nm 12 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 29 Watt 120 Watt

GT 710 PCI has 313.8% lower power consumption.

GTX 1660, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 6 years, a 1100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 233.3% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GT 710 PCI and GeForce GTX 1660. We've got no test results to judge.


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