NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 6 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

3375 points

3653 points

8% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

61 FPS

82 FPS

20 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

55 FPS

6 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

49 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

46 FPS

60 FPS

14 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

42 FPS

5 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

37 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

5999 points

10% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

5419 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

558.71 points

722.48 points

29% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

46955 points

60503 points

28% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

46870 points

55712 points

18% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

58341 points

14% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

51028 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

49707 points

59886 points

20% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

58341 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

56143 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1468 MHz

1530 MHz

4% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1468 MHz

1785 MHz

21% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

33% slightly more memory

6 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

33% slightly larger memory bus width

192 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

320.3 GB/s

66% significantly higher memory bandwidth

192.1 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

110 W

9% slightly lower TDP

120 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

93.95 Gigapixels/s

9% slightly higher pixel rate

85.68 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

234.9 Gigatexels/s

49% significantly higher texture rate

157.1 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

7.52 TFLOPS

49% significantly better floating point performance

5.03 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2560

81% significantly more shading units

1408

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

160

81% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

33% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

141st of 586

133rd of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 June

2019 March

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5X

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.1

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q vs GeForce GTX 1660 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 1660 in gaming.

In our comparison, the GeForce GTX 1660 has a slightly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. In addition, the GeForce GTX 1660 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q has slightly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 6 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q has a slightly lower TDP at 110 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1660 at 120 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q over the GeForce GTX 1660.