GeForce RTX 3070 vs GTX 1660 Max-Q

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated38
Place by popularitynot in top-10037
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data59.50
Power efficiencyno data19.01
ArchitectureTuring (2018−2022)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameTU116GA104
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release dateno data (2024 years ago)1 September 2020 (4 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$229 $499

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 coresno data5888
Core clock speed1140 MHz1500 MHz
Boost clock speed1335 MHz1725 MHz
Number of transistors6,600 million17,400 million
Manufacturing process technology12 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data220 Watt
Texture fill rateno data317.4
Floating-point processing powerno data20.31 TFLOPS
ROPsno data96
TMUsno data184
Tensor Coresno data184
Ray Tracing Coresno data46

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).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
Lengthno data242 mm
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pin1x 12-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 typeno dataGDDR6
Maximum RAM amountno data8 GB
Memory bus widthno data256 Bit
Memory clock speed8000 MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data448.0 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, 3x DisplayPort1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
HDMI++

API compatibility

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

DirectX12.0 (12_1)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.5
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCLno data2.0
Vulkan-1.2
CUDA-8.5

Pros & cons summary


Chip lithography 12 nm 8 nm

RTX 3070 has a 50% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GTX 1660 Max-Q and GeForce RTX 3070. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce GTX 1660 Max-Q is a notebook card while GeForce RTX 3070 is a desktop one.


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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Max-Q
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