NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 and 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 's Advantages

640 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 47% (1785MHz vs 1216MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)

Lower TDP (125W vs 165W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980

4.981 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

5.027 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 980

4330

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER +38%

5979

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GTX 980

18

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER +44%

26

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GTX 980

35

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER +48%

52

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GTX 980

62

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER +27%

79

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce GTX 980

60

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

60

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce GTX 980

62

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER +22%

76

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 980

100

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER +78%

178

GeForce GTX 980

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GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Oct 2019

GeForce 900

Generation

GeForce 16

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1127 MHz

Base Clock

1530 MHz

1216 MHz

Boost Clock

1785 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

336.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

22

-

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

1408

128

TMUs

88

64

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

Theoretical Performance

77.82 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

85.68 GPixel/s

155.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

157.1 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

10.05 TFLOPS

4.981 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.027 TFLOPS

155.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

157.1 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

TU116

GM204-400-A1

GPU Variant

TU116-300-A1

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Turing

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

12 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

6.6 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

284 mm²

Board Design

165W

TDP

125W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

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

2x 6-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

5.2

CUDA

7.5

6.4

Shader Model

6.6

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