Component comparison

GeForce RTX 5070 vs GeForce GTX 1660 Ti

GeForce RTX 5070 vs GeForce GTX 1660 Ti — detailed GPU comparison: performance, gaming FPS, specifications.

Advantages

A GeForce RTX 5070
  • + Release year (+6)
  • + VRAM (GB) (+2 GB)
  • + Memory clock (MHz) (+500 MHz)
  • + Bandwidth (GB/s) (+384 GB/s)
  • + TGP / TDP (W) (+20 W)
  • + Lithography (nm) (-8 nm)
  • + Transistors (M) (+24,500M)
  • + Die size (mm²) (+21 mm²)
  • + CUDA cores (+4608)
  • + TMUs (+96)
  • + ROPs (+32)
  • + FP32 performance (TFLOPS) (+26.77 TFLOPS)
  • + Pixel fill rate (GPixel/s) (+116.04 GPixel/s)
  • + Texture fill rate (GTexel/s) (+312.40 GTexel/s)
  • + PassMark (overall) (+6457)
  • + 3DMark Fire Strike (+20131)
  • + Normalized score (+5.9)
B GeForce GTX 1660 Ti
  • + Energy efficiency (+3.6)

Detailed spec comparison

Spec Component A
GeForce RTX 5070
Component B
GeForce GTX 1660 Ti
Release year 2025 (+6) 2019
VRAM (GB) 8 GB (+2 GB) 6 GB
Memory type GDDR7 GDDR6
Memory clock (MHz) 2000 MHz (+500 MHz) 1500 MHz
Bandwidth (GB/s) 672 GB/s (+384 GB/s) 288 GB/s
Memory bus (bit) 192 bit 192 bit
TGP / TDP (W) 100 W (+20 W) 80 W
Lithography (nm) 4 nm (-8 nm) 12 nm
Transistors (M) 31,100M (+24,500M) 6,600M
Die size (mm²) 263 mm² (+21 mm²) 284 mm²
Base clock (MHz) — —
Boost clock (MHz) — —
CUDA cores 6,144 (+4608) 1,536
TMUs 192 (+96) 96
ROPs 80 (+32) 48
RT cores 48 —
Tensor cores 192 —
FP32 performance (TFLOPS) 30.87 TFLOPS (+26.77 TFLOPS) 4.10 TFLOPS
Pixel fill rate (GPixel/s) 201.00 GPixel/s (+116.04 GPixel/s) 84.96 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate (GTexel/s) 482.30 GTexel/s (+312.40 GTexel/s) 169.90 GTexel/s
Energy efficiency 21.3 24.9 (+3.6)
PassMark (overall) 19,075 (+6457) 12,618
3DMark Time Spy — 5,659
3DMark Fire Strike 34,949 (+20131) 14,818
Geekbench OpenCL — 60,911
Geekbench Vulkan — 58,130
Normalized score 69.6 (+5.9) 63.7

Only in component A

DLSS ReBAR ray_tracing

In both

CUDA

FPS in games (1080p)

Game GeForce RTX 5070 GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Delta
Battlefield 5 180 FPS 111 FPS +62.2% (A)
CS:GO 240 FPS 240 FPS ≈
Counter-Strike 2 300 FPS 147 FPS +104.1% (A)
Cyberpunk 2077 170 FPS 86 FPS +97.7% (A)
Far Cry 5 322 FPS 93 FPS +246.2% (A)
Fortnite 300 FPS 120 FPS +150% (A)
Forza Horizon 4 270 FPS 134 FPS +101.5% (A)
Forza Horizon 5 329 FPS 107 FPS +207.5% (A)
GTA V 140 FPS 140 FPS ≈
Metro Exodus 170 FPS 54 FPS +214.8% (A)
Overwatch 240 FPS 240 FPS ≈
PUBG 140 FPS 140 FPS ≈
Resident Evil 4 Remake 210 FPS 75 FPS +180% (A)
The Witcher 3 436 FPS 103 FPS +323.3% (A)
Valorant 400 FPS 209 FPS +91.4% (A)

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

Based on the comparison: GeForce RTX 5070 wins 17 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).