NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 8G

The Nvidia GeForce GTX 1660 Ti for laptops is a mobile graphics card that is based on the Turing architecture (TU116 chip). Compared to the faster RTX 2000 GPUs (e.g. RTX 2060), the 1660Ti integrates no Raytracing or Tensor cores. The performance is similar to the old GTX 1070 (laptop) but at a reduced TGP of 80 Watt (versus 115 Watt). Compared to the desktop GTX 1660 Ti, the clock speeds are reduced (3% lower base, 10% lower boost).

In April 2020 Nvidia refreshed the GTX 1660 Ti with the new codename N18E-G0-A1 with similar specs and pin compatible to the refreshed RTX chips (e.g., RTX 2070 Super Mobile).

The Turing generation did not only introduce raytracing for the RTX cards, but also optimized the architecture of the cores and caches. According to Nvidia the CUDA cores offer now a concurrent execution of floating point and integer operations for increased performance in compute-heavy workloads of modern games. Furthermore, the caches were reworked (new unified memory architecture with twice the cache compared to Pascal). This leads to up to 50% more instructions per clock and a 40% more power efficient usage compared to Pascal.

The power consumption of the 1660Ti for latops is specified at 80 Watt TGP (Total Graphics Power) by Nvidia and therefore 20 Watt higher than the efficient (and slower) Max-Q variant of the 1660 Ti. The TU116 chip is manufactured in 12nm FFN at TSMC.

The Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060 Ti is a mid-range desktop GPU which is manufactured in a 5 nm process at TSMC. The manufacturer thus rounds off its current Ada-Lovelace lineup further in the direction of the mid-range. The AD106 is used as the chip. It combines 4,352 CUDA cores with 8 GB GDDR6. An Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060 Ti with 16 GB VRAM is supposed to follow later. The memory interface is 128 bits, which results in a memory bandwidth of only 288 GB/s.

Features

The Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060 Ti is not deprived of the features that have already arrived with the high-end models of the Ada-Lovelace generation, such as DLSS 3.0 with frame generation. Thus, the new mid-range clearly stands out from the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 Ti and can gain a significant advantage in games that offer these features. 

Performance

Without DLSS, the performance of an Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060 Ti is about 10% better than that of an Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 Ti. Compared to AMD, the Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060 Ti positions itself exactly between an AMD Radeon RX 6750 XT and an AMD Radeon RX 6800, although AMD has a small advantage here with the larger VRAM when it goes beyond 1080p. However, this is not the intended goal of the Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060 Ti, as this is rather a graphics card for the 1,080p gaming range.