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

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti 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

3968 points

17% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

61 FPS

88 FPS

27 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

55 FPS

2 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

53 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

46 FPS

64 FPS

18 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

42 FPS

2 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

40 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

5999 points

6332 points

5% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

558.71 points

799.88 points

43% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

46955 points

66368 points

41% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

46870 points

61373 points

30% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

58341 points

8% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

53550 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

49707 points

65938 points

32% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

58341 points

62004 points

6% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1468 MHz

1500 MHz

2% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1468 MHz

1770 MHz

20% 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

11% slightly higher memory bandwidth

288 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

10% slightly higher pixel rate

84.96 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

234.9 Gigatexels/s

38% slightly higher texture rate

169.9 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

7.52 TFLOPS

38% slightly better floating point performance

5.44 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2560

66% significantly more shading units

1536

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

160

66% 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

124th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 June

2019 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5X

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.1

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.6

GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q vs GeForce GTX 1660 Ti benchmarks

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q in our tests.

The GeForce GTX 1660 Ti has a slightly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. In addition, the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti also has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, 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 Ti at 120 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti is better than the GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q.