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Radeon RX 6700 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 — Specs & Performance Compared

Verdict: The Radeon RX 6700 is ahead of the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 on all 4 shared benchmarks on file, by 21% to 102%, including 102% in 3DMark Time Spy (11,178 vs 5,521). On llama2:7b, the Radeon RX 6700 generates 83.9 tokens/s (per llama.cpp GitHub Discussions (Vulkan performance)) against 41.4 for the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 (per llama.cpp GitHub (CUDA performance scoreboard)), best community run on file for each.

Side-by-side GPU comparison of the Radeon RX 6700 and the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660. Specs, synthetic benchmarks, AI inference tok/s, and Amazon availability below; each column header links to that part's benchmark page.

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Specs side-by-side

SpecRadeon RX 6700NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660
vram gb 106
vram type —GDDR5
tdp w —120
cuda cores —1408

Synthetic benchmarks

Each row says whether a higher or a lower number is better (ranks and times are lower-is-better). Scores come from 3DMark, The FPS Review, CpuTronic, TopCPU.net, AlkTech, Gizbot, Legit Reviews, GPU-Monkey, PassMark and AskGeek.io; each row links its sources, and where they differ the cell shows their median. Empty cells mean we don't yet have that benchmark on file for the SKU.

BenchmarkRadeon RX 6700NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660
3DMark Fire Strike (higher is better)
Source: 3DMark
—12,365 points
3DMark Port Royal (higher is better)
Source: The FPS Review
5,839 points—
3DMark Speed Way (RX 6700 XT) (higher is better)
Source: 3DMark
2,270 points—
3DMark Steel Nomad (higher is better)
Source: 3DMark, CpuTronic
2,003 points1,047 points
3DMark Steel Nomad DX12 (Graphics Score) (higher is better)
Source: 3DMark
2,002 points—
3DMark Steel Nomad Graphics Score (RX 6700 XT) (higher is better)
Source: 3DMark
2,425 points—
3DMark Time Spy (higher is better)
Source: TopCPU.net, AlkTech, The FPS Review, Gizbot, CpuTronic, 3DMark, Legit Reviews
11,178 points5,521 points
3DMark Time Spy Graphics (higher is better)
Source: GPU-Monkey
—5,395 points
PassMark G2D Mark (higher is better)
Source: PassMark
940 pts776 pts
PassMark G3D Mark (higher is better)
Source: PassMark, AskGeek.io
18,927 pts11,618 pts

AI inference (tokens/sec)

Top community-reported tokens-per-second results for popular LLMs whose weights fit the card's memory, each linked to its source. See the per-SKU benchmark page for the full set including quantization and prompt length.

Radeon RX 6700

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660

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Quick answers

Which is faster, the Radeon RX 6700 or the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660?

The Radeon RX 6700 is ahead of the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 on all 4 shared benchmarks on file, by 21% to 102%, including 102% in 3DMark Time Spy (11,178 vs 5,521).

Which is better for running local LLMs?

On llama2:7b, the Radeon RX 6700 generates 83.9 tokens/s (per llama.cpp GitHub Discussions (Vulkan performance)) against 41.4 for the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 (per llama.cpp GitHub (CUDA performance scoreboard)), best community run on file for each.

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