GeForce GTX 1080 vs GeForce GTX 1660
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1080 and 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1660 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GTX 1080 's Advantages
More VRAM (8GB vs 6GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.3GB/s vs 192.1GB/s)
1152 additional rendering cores
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)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 1080
+76%
8873
GeForce GTX 1660
5027
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce GTX 1080
+38%
7565
GeForce GTX 1660
5444
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce GTX 1080
+39%
3446
GeForce GTX 1660
2465
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
GeForce GTX 1080
+33%
32
GeForce GTX 1660
24
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
GeForce GTX 1080
+31%
62
GeForce GTX 1660
47
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
GeForce GTX 1080
+35%
99
GeForce GTX 1660
73
Battlefield 5 2160p
GeForce GTX 1080
+30%
52
GeForce GTX 1660
40
Battlefield 5 1440p
GeForce GTX 1080
+32%
97
GeForce GTX 1660
73
Battlefield 5 1080p
GeForce GTX 1080
+40%
128
GeForce GTX 1660
91
GTA 5 2160p
GeForce GTX 1080
+12%
56
GeForce GTX 1660
50
GTA 5 1440p
GeForce GTX 1080
+42%
74
GeForce GTX 1660
52
GTA 5 1080p
GeForce GTX 1080
154
GeForce GTX 1660
+1%
156
Graphics Card
May 2016
Release Date
Mar 2019
GeForce 10
Generation
GeForce 16
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1607 MHz
Base Clock
1530 MHz
1733 MHz
Boost Clock
1785 MHz
1251 MHz
Memory Clock
2001 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
6GB
GDDR5X
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
192bit
320.3GB/s
Bandwidth
192.1GB/s
Render Config
20
SM Count
22
2560
Shading Units
1408
160
TMUs
88
64
ROPs
48
48 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
2 MB
L2 Cache
1536 KB
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
Board Design
180W
TDP
120W
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
1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
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
7.2 billion
Transistors
6.6 billion
314 mm²
Die Size
284 mm²
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
