Component comparison

GeForce RTX 4070 vs GeForce GTX 1660 Ti

GeForce RTX 4070 vs GeForce GTX 1660 Ti — detailed GPU comparison: performance, gaming FPS, specifications.

Advantages

A GeForce RTX 4070
  • + Release year (+4)
  • + VRAM (GB) (+2 GB)
  • + Memory clock (MHz) (+500 MHz)
  • + Bandwidth (GB/s) (+216 GB/s)
  • + TGP / TDP (W) (+35 W)
  • + Lithography (nm) (-7 nm)
  • + Transistors (M) (+29,200M)
  • + CUDA cores (+4352)
  • + TMUs (+88)
  • + ROPs (+16)
  • + FP32 performance (TFLOPS) (+25.05 TFLOPS)
  • + Pixel fill rate (GPixel/s) (+73.44 GPixel/s)
  • + Texture fill rate (GTexel/s) (+285.50 GTexel/s)
  • + Energy efficiency (+6.6)
  • + PassMark (overall) (+6871)
  • + 3DMark Time Spy (+6301)
  • + 3DMark Fire Strike (+15233)
  • + Geekbench OpenCL (+107784)
  • + Geekbench Vulkan (+101155)
  • + Normalized score (+20.8)
B GeForce GTX 1660 Ti
  • + Die size (mm²) (+10 mm²)

Detailed spec comparison

Spec Component A
GeForce RTX 4070
Component B
GeForce GTX 1660 Ti
Release year 2023 (+4) 2019
VRAM (GB) 8 GB (+2 GB) 6 GB
Memory type GDDR6 GDDR6
Memory clock (MHz) 2000 MHz (+500 MHz) 1500 MHz
Bandwidth (GB/s) 504 GB/s (+216 GB/s) 288 GB/s
Memory bus (bit) 192 bit 192 bit
TGP / TDP (W) 115 W (+35 W) 80 W
Lithography (nm) 5 nm (-7 nm) 12 nm
Transistors (M) 35,800M (+29,200M) 6,600M
Die size (mm²) 294 mm² 284 mm² (+10 mm²)
Base clock (MHz) — —
Boost clock (MHz) — —
CUDA cores 5,888 (+4352) 1,536
TMUs 184 (+88) 96
ROPs 64 (+16) 48
RT cores 46 —
Tensor cores 184 —
FP32 performance (TFLOPS) 29.15 TFLOPS (+25.05 TFLOPS) 4.10 TFLOPS
Pixel fill rate (GPixel/s) 158.40 GPixel/s (+73.44 GPixel/s) 84.96 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate (GTexel/s) 455.40 GTexel/s (+285.50 GTexel/s) 169.90 GTexel/s
Energy efficiency 31.5 (+6.6) 24.9
PassMark (overall) 19,489 (+6871) 12,618
3DMark Time Spy 11,960 (+6301) 5,659
3DMark Fire Strike 30,051 (+15233) 14,818
Geekbench OpenCL 168,695 (+107784) 60,911
Geekbench Vulkan 159,285 (+101155) 58,130
Normalized score 84.5 (+20.8) 63.7

Only in component A

DLSS ReBAR ray_tracing

In both

CUDA

FPS in games (1080p)

Game GeForce RTX 4070 GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Delta
A Plague Tale Requiem 59 FPS 45 FPS +31.1% (A)
Alan Wake 2 65 FPS 30 FPS +116.7% (A)
Anno 1800 92 FPS 69 FPS +33.3% (A)
Armored Core 6 91 FPS 64 FPS +42.2% (A)
Assassin's Creed Mirage 116 FPS 66 FPS +75.8% (A)
Atlas Fallen 107 FPS 74 FPS +44.6% (A)
Atomic Heart 86 FPS 50 FPS +72% (A)
Avatar Frontiers of Pandora 65 FPS 28 FPS +132.1% (A)
Back 4 Blood 221 FPS 126 FPS +75.4% (A)
Baldur's Gate 3 73 FPS 54 FPS +35.2% (A)
Battlefield 5 140 FPS 111 FPS +26.1% (A)
Borderlands 3 107 FPS 62 FPS +72.6% (A)
CS:GO 240 FPS 240 FPS ≈
Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 2023 99 FPS 57 FPS +73.7% (A)
Company of Heroes 3 135 FPS 52 FPS +159.6% (A)
Counter-Strike 2 250 FPS 147 FPS +70.1% (A)
Counter-Strike 2 152 FPS 104 FPS +46.2% (A)
Cyberpunk 2077 135 FPS 86 FPS +57% (A)
Cyberpunk 2077 1.6 58 FPS 54 FPS +7.4% (A)
Days Gone 155 FPS 83 FPS +86.7% (A)
Dead Island 2 152 FPS 86 FPS +76.7% (A)
Dead Space Remake 81 FPS 40 FPS +102.5% (A)
Deathloop 130 FPS 66 FPS +97% (A)
Diablo 4 207 FPS 113 FPS +83.2% (A)
Dota 2 178 FPS 121 FPS +47.1% (A)
Dying Light 2 95 FPS 40 FPS +137.5% (A)
EA Sports WRC 85 FPS 52 FPS +63.5% (A)
Elden Ring 60 FPS 57 FPS +5.3% (A)
Elex 2 118 FPS 53 FPS +122.6% (A)
Enshrouded 63 FPS 34 FPS +85.3% (A)
Escape from Tarkov 120 FPS 117 FPS +2.6% (A)
F1 2020 228 FPS 122 FPS +86.9% (A)
F1 2021 163 FPS 120 FPS +35.8% (A)
F1 22 109 FPS 117 FPS 7.3% (B)
F1 23 153 FPS 109 FPS +40.4% (A)
Far Cry 5 139 FPS 93 FPS +49.5% (A)
Far Cry 6 105 FPS 78 FPS +34.6% (A)
Far Cry New Dawn 102 FPS 79 FPS +29.1% (A)
Farming Simulator 22 148 FPS 121 FPS +22.3% (A)
Final Fantasy XV Benchmark 41 FPS 55 FPS 34.1% (B)
Flight Simulator 2020 83 FPS 39 FPS +112.8% (A)
Fortnite 200 FPS 120 FPS +66.7% (A)
Forza Horizon 4 180 FPS 134 FPS +34.3% (A)
Forza Horizon 5 190 FPS 107 FPS +77.6% (A)
GRID Legends 126 FPS 118 FPS +6.8% (A)
GTA V 140 FPS 140 FPS ≈
GTA V 134 FPS 124 FPS +8.1% (A)
Ghostwire Tokyo 172 FPS 89 FPS +93.3% (A)
God of War 96 FPS 52 FPS +84.6% (A)
Guardians of the Galaxy 147 FPS 72 FPS +104.2% (A)
Halo Infinite 149 FPS 70 FPS +112.9% (A)
High On Life 127 FPS 78 FPS +62.8% (A)
Hitman 3 208 FPS 99 FPS +110.1% (A)
Hogwarts Legacy 57 FPS 48 FPS +18.8% (A)
Horizon Zero Dawn 143 FPS 70 FPS +104.3% (A)
Immortals of Aveum 56 FPS 44 FPS +27.3% (A)
Lies of P 150 FPS 77 FPS +94.8% (A)
Lords of the Fallen 63 FPS 30 FPS +110% (A)
Metro Exodus 111 FPS 54 FPS +105.6% (A)
Monster Hunter World 169 FPS 82 FPS +106.1% (A)
Need for Speed Unbound 99 FPS 67 FPS +47.8% (A)
Outriders 145 FPS 84 FPS +72.6% (A)
Overwatch 240 FPS 240 FPS ≈
PUBG 140 FPS 140 FPS ≈
Palworld 102 FPS 55 FPS +85.5% (A)
Prince of Persia The Lost Crown 322 FPS 291 FPS +10.7% (A)
Rainbow Six Extraction 240 FPS 105 FPS +128.6% (A)
Ratchet & Clank Rift Apart 58 FPS 40 FPS +45% (A)
Ready or Not 194 FPS 101 FPS +92.1% (A)
Resident Evil 4 Remake 160 FPS 75 FPS +113.3% (A)
Resident Evil Village 212 FPS 99 FPS +114.1% (A)
Returnal 64 FPS 52 FPS +23.1% (A)
Riders Republic 135 FPS 55 FPS +145.5% (A)
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 149 FPS 114 FPS +30.7% (A)
Skull & Bones 94 FPS 55 FPS +70.9% (A)
Sons of the Forest 72 FPS 55 FPS +30.9% (A)
Spider-Man Miles Morales 115 FPS 76 FPS +51.3% (A)
Star Wars Jedi Survivor 65 FPS 39 FPS +66.7% (A)
Starfield 51 FPS 30 FPS +70% (A)
The Callisto Protocol 112 FPS 81 FPS +38.3% (A)
The Crew Motorfest 60 FPS 52 FPS +15.4% (A)
The Finals 168 FPS 99 FPS +69.7% (A)
The Last of Us 57 FPS 42 FPS +35.7% (A)
The Quarry 122 FPS 56 FPS +117.9% (A)
The Witcher 3 229 FPS 103 FPS +122.3% (A)
The Witcher 3 124 FPS 93 FPS +33.3% (A)
The Witcher 3 v4 101 FPS 43 FPS +134.9% (A)
Tiny Tina's Wonderlands 74 FPS 67 FPS +10.4% (A)
Total War Pharaoh 137 FPS 82 FPS +67.1% (A)
Total War: Three Kingdoms 133 FPS 64 FPS +107.8% (A)
Uncharted Legacy of Thieves Collection 84 FPS 51 FPS +64.7% (A)
Valorant 260 FPS 209 FPS +24.4% (A)
Vampire Bloodhunt 200 FPS 124 FPS +61.3% (A)
Watch Dogs Legion 130 FPS 71 FPS +83.1% (A)
X-Plane 11.11 52 FPS 64 FPS 23.1% (B)

Specs from public sources (PassMark, Geekbench). FPS measured at 1080p medium settings.

Based on the comparison: GeForce RTX 4070 wins 20 of the comparable criteria. The choice depends on your use case.

🤔 How to choose

Universal advice for any use case.

  • Reliability vs price: reliability (median 50) ↔ price (median 385.1).
  • Weight vs CPU: mobility (median 48) ↔ overall performance (median 49.8).
  • Upgradeability vs battery: upgradability (median 50) ↔ battery life (median 2.8).