NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB and 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1660 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 10 months late

More VRAM (12GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (912.4GB/s vs 192.1GB/s)

7552 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 's Advantages

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

Lower TDP (120W vs 350W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +509%

30.64 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1660

5.027 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +248%

18851

GeForce GTX 1660

5415

Blender

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +690%

5543

GeForce GTX 1660

701

OctaneBench

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +396%

556

GeForce GTX 1660

112

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +266%

88

GeForce GTX 1660

24

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +221%

151

GeForce GTX 1660

47

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +161%

191

GeForce GTX 1660

73

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +172%

109

GeForce GTX 1660

40

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +152%

184

GeForce GTX 1660

73

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +117%

198

GeForce GTX 1660

91

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +88%

94

GeForce GTX 1660

50

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +173%

142

GeForce GTX 1660

52

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +10%

172

GeForce GTX 1660

156

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

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GeForce GTX 1660

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Mar 2019

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 16

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1260 MHz

Base Clock

1530 MHz

1710 MHz

Boost Clock

1785 MHz

1188 MHz

Memory Clock

2001 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

192bit

912.4GB/s

Bandwidth

192.1GB/s

Render Config

-

70

SM Count

22

8960

Shading Units

1408

280

TMUs

88

96

ROPs

48

280

Tensor Cores

-

70

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

5 MB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

164.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

85.68 GPixel/s

478.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

157.1 GTexel/s

30.64 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

10.05 TFLOPS

30.64 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.027 TFLOPS

478.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

157.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

350W

TDP

120W

750 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GA102

GPU Name

TU116

GA102-220-A1

GPU Variant

TU116-300-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Turing

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

12 nm

28.3 billion

Transistors

6.6 billion

628 mm²

Die Size

284 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

8.6

CUDA

7.5

6.6

Shader Model

6.6

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