MSI GeForce RTX 3070 Ventus 3X 8G OC
vs
ZOTAC GAMING GeForce GTX 1660 Twin Fan


GPU comparison with benchmarks

The MSI GeForce RTX 3070 Ventus 3X 8G OC has 5888 shader units and these clock a maximum of 1.76 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 20.66 TFLOPS.

The ZOTAC GAMING GeForce GTX 1660 Twin Fan has 1408 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 1.79 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 5.03 TFLOPS.

GPU

The MSI GeForce RTX 3070 Ventus 3X 8G OC is equipped with a graphics chip of the Ampere architecture, which has 46 streaming multiprocessors.

The graphics card ZOTAC GAMING GeForce GTX 1660 Twin Fan is based on the Turing architecture and is equipped with 22 execution units.
MSI GeForce RTX 3070 Ventus 3X 8G OC GPU ZOTAC GAMING GeForce GTX 1660 Twin Fan
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Based on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660
GA104-300-A1 GPU Chip TU116-300-A1
Ampere Architecture Turing
46 Streaming Multiprocessors 22
5888 Shader 1408
96 Render Output Units 48
184 Texture Units 88
46 Raytracing Cores 0

Memory

The MSI GeForce RTX 3070 Ventus 3X 8G OC is equipped with a 8 GB large GDDR6 graphics memory, which is equipped with 1.750 GHz clocks.

The ZOTAC GAMING GeForce GTX 1660 Twin Fan has a 6 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory and the memory clock is 2.000GHz.

8 GB Memory Size 6 GB
GDDR6 Memory Type GDDR5
1.750 GHz Memory Clock 2.000 GHz
14.0 Gbps Memory Speed 8.0 Gbps
448 GB/s Memory bandwidth 192 GB/s
256 bit Memory Interface 192 bit

Clock Speeds

The MSI GeForce RTX 3070 Ventus 3X 8G OC has a turbo clock of 1.755 GHz. The turbo frequency of the ZOTAC GAMING GeForce GTX 1660 Twin Fan is 1.785 GHz.

1.500 GHz Base Clock 1.530 GHz
1.755 GHz Boost Clock 1.785 GHz
Avg (Game) Clock
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The MSI GeForce RTX 3070 Ventus 3X 8G OC has 2 x 8-Pin connectors through which it is supplied with power. The manufacturer specifies the maximum operating temperature of the graphics card as 93 °C.

The ZOTAC GAMING GeForce GTX 1660 Twin Fan is equipped with a 1 x 8-Pin PCIe power connector that supplies it with power. The maximum operating temperature of the card is 95 °C.

220 W TDP 120 W
250 W TDP (up) --
93 °C Tjunction max 95 °C
2 x 8-Pin PCIe-Power 1 x 8-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The graphics processor and graphics memory of the MSI GeForce RTX 3070 Ventus 3X 8G OC are cooled with a Air cooling.

The ZOTAC GAMING GeForce GTX 1660 Twin Fan is cooled by a Air cooling.

Axial Fan-Type Axial
3 x 90 mm Fan 1 2 x 90 mm
-- Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
0 dB Noise (Idle) dB
36-37 dB Noise (Load) --

Connectivity

The MSI GeForce RTX 3070 Ventus 3X 8G OC supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.3.

The ZOTAC GAMING GeForce GTX 1660 Twin Fan supports HDCP in version 2.2 and all previous versions.

4 Max. Displays 3
2.3 HDCP-Version 2.2
1x HDMI v2.1 HDMI Ports 1x HDMI v2.0b
3x DP v1.4a DP Ports 3x DP v1.4
-- DVI Ports --
-- VGA Ports --
-- USB-C Ports --

Featureset

The MSI GeForce RTX 3070 Ventus 3X 8G OC supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12_2 (Ultimate).

The ZOTAC GAMING GeForce GTX 1660 Twin Fan supports Microsoft's DirectX version 12_1.

7680x4320 Max. resolution 7680x4320
12_2 (Ultimate) DirectX 12_1
Yes Raytracing No
Yes DLSS / FSR Yes
No LED lighting LED No LED lighting

Supported Video Codecs

This area lists which video codecs can be decoded or encoded by the graphics cards in hardware. As a result, the power consumption can be reduced due to a lower processor load.

Decode / Encode h264 Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode h265 / HEVC Decode / Encode
Decode AV1 No
Decode VP8 Decode
Decode VP9 Decode

Dimensions

The MSI GeForce RTX 3070 Ventus 3X 8G OC is 52 mm wide and therefore needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the ZOTAC GAMING GeForce GTX 1660 Twin Fan is 52 mm and thus requires the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

305 mm Length 216 mm
121 mm Height 111 mm
52 mm Width 35 mm
3 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 2 PCIe-Slots
992 g Weight --
PCIe 4.0 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 3.0 x 16

Additional data

Manufactured using the 8 nanometer process, MSI GeForce RTX 3070 Ventus 3X 8G OC was released in Q4/2020.

The ZOTAC GAMING GeForce GTX 1660 Twin Fan published in Q1/2019 is manufactured with a structure width of 12 nanometers.

-- Part-no ZT-T16600K-10M
Q4/2020 Release date Q1/2019
679 $ Launch Price 219 $ (Reference)
8 nm Structure size 12 nm
data sheet Documents data sheet

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Benchmark results

3DMark Benchmark (DirectX, Raytracing)

3DMark is a benchmark program that determines the performance of certain components of a computer and then reports the performance as a numerical value.

Time Spy Extreme Graphics score

Port Royal (Raytracing)

Speed Way Graphics Score (Raytracing)

Cyberpunk 2077

Cyberpunk 2077 was developed by CD Projekt Red and is based on the development studio's own REDengine 4. Ray tracing is switched off in our benchmarks.

3840x2160 (2160p)

2560x1440 (1440p)

1920x1080 (1080p)

The Last of Us Part 1

The Last of Us Part One is a game released by Sony in June 2013 exclusively for the Playstation and released for the PC in early 2023. The benchmark values here were determined at high details.

3840x2160 (2160p)

2560x1440 (1440p)

1920x1080 (1080p)

Battlefield 5

Battlefield 5 is a visually stunning game that is ideal as a graphics card benchmark. We test the game with maximum details on Windows 10.

3840x2160 (2160p)

2560x1440 (1440p)

1920x1080 (1080p)

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL, Vulkan, Metal)

Geekbench 6 is a cross-platform benchmark for main processors, which also carries out 3 different graphics benchmarks and outputs them in the form of a numerical value.

Geekbench 6 - OpenCL

Geekbench 6 - Vulkan

FP32 Performance (Single-precision TFLOPS)

The theoretical computing power of the graphics card with single precision (32 bit) in TFLOPS indicates how many trillion FP32 floating point operations the graphics card (GPU) can perform per second.

FP32 (TFLOPS)

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