NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1660 and 10GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 4% (1785MHz vs 1710MHz)

Lower TDP (120W vs 320W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 6 months late

More VRAM (10GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (760.3GB/s vs 192.1GB/s)

7296 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1660

5.027 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3080 +492%

29.77 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 1660

5414

GeForce RTX 3080 +227%

17724

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GTX 1660

24

GeForce RTX 3080 +229%

79

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GTX 1660

47

GeForce RTX 3080 +195%

139

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GTX 1660

73

GeForce RTX 3080 +147%

181

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce GTX 1660

40

GeForce RTX 3080 +167%

107

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce GTX 1660

73

GeForce RTX 3080 +121%

162

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 1660

91

GeForce RTX 3080 +108%

190

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce GTX 1660

50

GeForce RTX 3080 +86%

93

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce GTX 1660

52

GeForce RTX 3080 +171%

141

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 1660

156

GeForce RTX 3080 +10%

172

GeForce GTX 1660

VS

GeForce RTX 3080

Graphics Card

Mar 2019

Release Date

Sep 2020

GeForce 16

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1530 MHz

Base Clock

1440 MHz

1785 MHz

Boost Clock

1710 MHz

2001 MHz

Memory Clock

1188 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

10GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6X

192bit

Memory Bus

320bit

192.1GB/s

Bandwidth

760.3GB/s

Render Config

22

SM Count

68

-

Compute Units

-

1408

Shading Units

8704

88

TMUs

272

48

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

272

-

RT Cores

68

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

5 MB

Theoretical Performance

85.68 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

164.2 GPixel/s

157.1 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

465.1 GTexel/s

10.05 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

29.77 TFLOPS

5.027 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

29.77 TFLOPS

157.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

465.1 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

TU116

GPU Name

GA102

TU116-300-A1

GPU Variant

GA102-200-KD-A1

Turing

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

12 nm

Process Size

8 nm

6.6 billion

Transistors

28.3 billion

284 mm²

Die Size

628 mm²

Board Design

120W

TDP

320W

300 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

7.5

CUDA

8.6

6.6

Shader Model

6.6

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