NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Max-Q vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Max-Q 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti 12 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 RTX 3080 Ti

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

3236 points

14177 points

338% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

73 FPS

342 FPS

269 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

46 FPS

168 FPS

122 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

54 FPS

245 FPS

191 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

34 FPS

135 FPS

101 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

4964 points

19628 points

295% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

756.05 points

5580.42 points

638% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

61528 points

235513 points

282% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

54310 points

209081 points

284% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

48658 points

131975 points

171% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

56770 points

191836 points

237% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

54216 points

173043 points

219% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1140 MHz

1370 MHz

20% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1335 MHz

1665 MHz

24% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

6 GiB

12 GiB

100% significantly more memory

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

288 GB/s

912.4 GB/s

216% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

60 W

483% significantly lower TDP

350 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

64.08 Gigapixels/s

186.5 Gigapixels/s

191% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

128.2 Gigatexels/s

532.8 Gigatexels/s

315% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

4.10 TFLOPS

34.1 TFLOPS

731% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1536

10240

566% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

320

233% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

112

133% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

144th of 586

22nd of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 April

2021 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

GDDR6X

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Max-Q vs GeForce RTX 3080 Ti benchmarks

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Max-Q in our tests.

Our database shows that the GeForce RTX 3080 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 RTX 3080 Ti 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 RTX 3080 Ti has significantly more memory with 12 GiB of memory compared to 6 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Max-Q has a significantly lower TDP at 60 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti at 350 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti over the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Max-Q.