NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Max-Q vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Max-Q 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 4 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Max-Q

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

3236 points

29% slightly better overall score

2494 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

73 FPS

21 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

52 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

46 FPS

5 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

41 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

54 FPS

18 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

36 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

34 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

33 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

4964 points

13% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

4376 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

756.05 points

105% significantly higher Blender score

367.38 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

61528 points

106% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

29848 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

54310 points

62% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

33463 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

48658 points

17% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

41306 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

56770 points

64% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

34611 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

54216 points

42% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

38178 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1140 MHz

1% slightly higher core clock speed

1126 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1335 MHz

9% slightly higher boost clock speed

1216 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

6 GiB

49% significantly more memory

4 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit

256 Bit

33% slightly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

288 GB/s

28% slightly higher memory bandwidth

224.4 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

60 W

175% significantly lower TDP

165 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

64.08 Gigapixels/s

77.82 Gigapixels/s

21% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

128.2 Gigatexels/s

155.6 Gigatexels/s

21% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

4.10 TFLOPS

4.98 TFLOPS

21% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1536

2048

33% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

128

33% slightly 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

145th of 586

177th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 April

2014 September

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 Ti Max-Q vs GeForce GTX 980 specs and performance

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

Our database shows that the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Max-Q 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 Ti Max-Q 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 1660 Ti Max-Q has significantly more memory with 6 GiB of memory compared to 4 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 980 at 165 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Max-Q is faster than the GeForce GTX 980.