NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 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

3755 points

3839 points

2% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

84 FPS

8 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

76 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

50 FPS

58 FPS

9 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

61 FPS

9 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

52 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

38 FPS

47 FPS

10 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

6047 points

4% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

5794 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

776.88 points

44% significantly higher Blender score

536.77 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

65154 points

79% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

36268 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

60772 points

51% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

40025 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

55624 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

54616 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

64068 points

46% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

43854 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

60513 points

26% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

47793 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1530 MHz

42% slightly higher core clock speed

1076 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1785 MHz

65% significantly higher boost clock speed

1076 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

6 GiB

Identical

6 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit

384 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

336 GB/s

336.6 GB/s

0.18% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

125 W

100% significantly lower TDP

250 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

85.68 Gigapixels/s

103.3 Gigapixels/s

20% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

157.1 Gigatexels/s

189.4 Gigatexels/s

20% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.03 TFLOPS

6.06 TFLOPS

20% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1408

2816

100% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

176

100% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

130th of 586

127th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 October

2015 June

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

4.5

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER vs GeForce GTX 980 Ti comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 980 Ti GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER in gaming.

Our database shows that the GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER 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 SUPER also has a significantly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, they both have the same amount of memory at 6 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER has a significantly lower TDP at 125 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 980 Ti at 250 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 980 Ti over the GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER.