NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080

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

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660's Advantages

Released 2 years and 10 months late

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

Lower TDP (120W vs 180W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080's Advantages

More VRAM (8GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.3GB/s vs 192.1GB/s)

1152 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1660

5.027 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1080 +76%

8.873 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 1660

5414

GeForce GTX 1080 +39%

7533

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GTX 1660

24

GeForce GTX 1080 +33%

32

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GTX 1660

47

GeForce GTX 1080 +31%

62

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GTX 1660

73

GeForce GTX 1080 +35%

99

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce GTX 1660

40

GeForce GTX 1080 +30%

52

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce GTX 1660

73

GeForce GTX 1080 +32%

97

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 1660

91

GeForce GTX 1080 +40%

128

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce GTX 1660

50

GeForce GTX 1080 +12%

56

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce GTX 1660

52

GeForce GTX 1080 +42%

74

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 1660 +1%

156

GeForce GTX 1080

154

GeForce GTX 1660

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GeForce GTX 1080

Graphics Card

Mar 2019

Release Date

May 2016

GeForce 16

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1530MHz

Base Clock

1607MHz

1785MHz

Boost Clock

1733MHz

2001MHz

Memory Clock

1251MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5X

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

192.1 GB/s

Bandwidth

320.3 GB/s

Render Config

22

SM Count

20

-

Compute Units

-

1408

Shading Units

2560

88

TMUs

160

48

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

1536KB

L2 Cache

2MB

Theoretical Performance

85.68 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

110.9 GPixel/s

157.1 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

277.3 GTexel/s

10.05 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

138.6 GFLOPS

5.027 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

8.873 TFLOPS

157.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

277.3 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

TU116

GPU Name

GP104

TU116-300-A1

GPU Variant

GP104-400-A1

Turing

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

12 nm

Process Size

16 nm

6,600 million

Transistors

7,200 million

284mm²

Die Size

314mm²

Board Design

120W

TDP

180W

300W

Suggested PSU

450W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x 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

7.5

CUDA

6.1

6.6

Shader Model

6.4

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