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

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

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Max-Q

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

4905 points

51% significantly better overall score

3236 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

94 FPS

20 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

73 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

79 FPS

33 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

46 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

62 FPS

9 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

54 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

64 FPS

30 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

34 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

7547 points

52% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

4964 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

606.98 points

756.05 points

24% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

51531 points

61528 points

19% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

54640 points

0.61% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

54310 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

66552 points

36% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

48658 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

60120 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

56770 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

65170 points

20% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

54216 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1607 MHz

40% slightly higher core clock speed

1140 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1733 MHz

29% slightly higher boost clock speed

1335 MHz

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

180 W

60 W

200% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

110.9 Gigapixels/s

73% significantly higher pixel rate

64.08 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

277.3 Gigatexels/s

116% significantly higher texture rate

128.2 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

8.87 TFLOPS

116% significantly better floating point performance

4.10 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

104th of 586

145th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 May

2019 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5X

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.6

GeForce GTX 1080 vs GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Max-Q specs and performance

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

The GeForce GTX 1080 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 1080 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the GeForce GTX 1080 has slightly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 6 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Max-Q has a significantly lower TDP at 60 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1080 at 180 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

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