NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1080 and 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1660 Ti to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080's Advantages

More VRAM (8GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.3GB/s vs 288.0GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti's Advantages

Released 2 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 2% (1770MHz vs 1733MHz)

Lower TDP (120W vs 180W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1080 +63%

8.873 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1660 Ti

5.437 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 1080 +20%

7533

GeForce GTX 1660 Ti

6260

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GTX 1080 +14%

32

GeForce GTX 1660 Ti

28

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GTX 1080 +19%

62

GeForce GTX 1660 Ti

52

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GTX 1080 +23%

99

GeForce GTX 1660 Ti

80

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce GTX 1080 +18%

52

GeForce GTX 1660 Ti

44

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce GTX 1080 +21%

97

GeForce GTX 1660 Ti

80

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 1080 +24%

128

GeForce GTX 1660 Ti

103

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce GTX 1080

56

GeForce GTX 1660 Ti +7%

60

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce GTX 1080 +19%

74

GeForce GTX 1660 Ti

62

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 1080

154

GeForce GTX 1660 Ti

154

GeForce GTX 1080

VS

GeForce GTX 1660 Ti

Graphics Card

May 2016

Release Date

Feb 2019

GeForce 10

Generation

GeForce 16

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1607MHz

Base Clock

1500MHz

1733MHz

Boost Clock

1770MHz

1251MHz

Memory Clock

1500MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5X

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

320.3 GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0 GB/s

Render Config

20

SM Count

24

-

Compute Units

-

2560

Shading Units

1536

160

TMUs

96

64

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

2MB

L2 Cache

1536KB

Theoretical Performance

110.9 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

84.96 GPixel/s

277.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

169.9 GTexel/s

138.6 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

10.87 TFLOPS

8.873 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.437 TFLOPS

277.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

169.9 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

TU116

GP104-400-A1

GPU Variant

TU116-400-A1

Pascal

Architecture

Turing

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

12 nm

7,200 million

Transistors

6,600 million

314mm²

Die Size

284mm²

Board Design

180W

TDP

120W

450W

Suggested PSU

300W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

6.1

CUDA

7.5

6.4

Shader Model

6.6

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