NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1080 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 1080's Advantages

More VRAM (8GB vs 6GB)

1152 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER's Advantages

Released 3 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 3% (1785MHz vs 1733MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 320.3GB/s)

Lower TDP (125W vs 180W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1080 +76%

8.873 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

5.027 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 1080 +26%

7533

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

5978

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GTX 1080 +23%

32

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

26

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GTX 1080 +19%

62

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

52

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GTX 1080 +25%

99

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

79

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce GTX 1080 +26%

52

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

41

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce GTX 1080 +24%

97

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

78

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 1080 +31%

128

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

97

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce GTX 1080

56

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER +7%

60

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce GTX 1080

74

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER +2%

76

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 1080

154

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER +15%

178

GeForce GTX 1080

VS

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

Graphics Card

May 2016

Release Date

Oct 2019

GeForce 10

Generation

GeForce 16

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1607MHz

Base Clock

1530MHz

1733MHz

Boost Clock

1785MHz

1251MHz

Memory Clock

1750MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5X

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

320.3 GB/s

Bandwidth

336.0 GB/s

Render Config

20

SM Count

22

-

Compute Units

-

2560

Shading Units

1408

160

TMUs

88

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

85.68 GPixel/s

277.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

157.1 GTexel/s

138.6 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

10.05 TFLOPS

8.873 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.027 TFLOPS

277.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

157.1 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

TU116

GP104-400-A1

GPU Variant

TU116-300-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

125W

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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