NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti

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

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 66% (1785MHz vs 1076MHz)

Lower TDP (120W vs 250W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.6GB/s vs 192.1GB/s)

1408 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1660

5.027 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980 Ti +20%

6.06 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 1660

5414

GeForce GTX 980 Ti +6%

5758

Blender

GeForce GTX 1660 +42%

787

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

553

OctaneBench

GeForce GTX 1660

112

GeForce GTX 980 Ti +18%

133

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GTX 1660

24

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

24

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GTX 1660 +4%

47

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

45

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GTX 1660

73

GeForce GTX 980 Ti +2%

75

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce GTX 1660

50

GeForce GTX 980 Ti +44%

72

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce GTX 1660

52

GeForce GTX 980 Ti +42%

74

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 1660 +30%

156

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

120

GeForce GTX 1660

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GeForce GTX 980 Ti

Graphics Card

Mar 2019

Release Date

Jun 2015

GeForce 16

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1530 MHz

Base Clock

1000 MHz

1785 MHz

Boost Clock

1076 MHz

2001 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

384bit

192.1GB/s

Bandwidth

336.6GB/s

Render Config

22

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

1408

Shading Units

2816

88

TMUs

176

48

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

3 MB

Theoretical Performance

85.68 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

103.3 GPixel/s

157.1 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

189.4 GTexel/s

10.05 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

5.027 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.060 TFLOPS

157.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

189.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

TU116

GPU Name

GM200

TU116-300-A1

GPU Variant

GM200-310-A1

Turing

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

12 nm

Process Size

28 nm

6.6 billion

Transistors

8 billion

284 mm²

Die Size

601 mm²

Board Design

120W

TDP

250W

300 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

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 6-pin + 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

5.2

6.6

Shader Model

6.4

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