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.
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660
*Price sourced from Amazon.com. Price and availability subject to change.
Where to buy
A listing for each part; the current price and stock are on the retailer's page.
Specs side-by-side
| Spec | Radeon RX 6700 | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 |
|---|---|---|
| vram gb | 10 | 6 |
| 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.
| Benchmark | Radeon RX 6700 | NVIDIA 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 points | 1,047 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 points | 5,521 points |
| 3DMark Time Spy Graphics (higher is better) Source: GPU-Monkey |
— | 5,395 points |
| PassMark G2D Mark (higher is better) Source: PassMark |
940 pts | 776 pts |
| PassMark G3D Mark (higher is better) Source: PassMark, AskGeek.io |
18,927 pts | 11,618 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
- qwen3:8b: 711.0 tok/s (LocalLLaMA)
- llama2:7b: 83.9 tok/s (llama.cpp GitHub Discussions (Vulkan performance))
- llama2:7b: 83.9 tok/s (llama.cpp GitHub)
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660
- qwen3:0.6b: 47.1 tok/s (LocalLLaMA)
- llama2:7b: 41.4 tok/s (llama.cpp GitHub (CUDA performance scoreboard))
- llama2:7b: 41.4 tok/s (knightli.com)
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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