NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti 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 980

Price

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$ 174.97

$ 704.88 significantly less expensive

$ 879.85

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

3968 points

59% significantly better overall score

2494 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

88 FPS

36 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

52 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

53 FPS

13 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

41 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

64 FPS

28 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

36 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

40 FPS

7 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

33 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

6332 points

44% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

4376 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

799.88 points

117% significantly higher Blender score

367.38 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

66368 points

122% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

29848 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

61373 points

83% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

33463 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

53550 points

29% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

41306 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

65938 points

90% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

34611 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

62004 points

62% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

38178 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1500 MHz

33% slightly higher core clock speed

1126 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1770 MHz

45% significantly 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

120 W

37% slightly lower TDP

165 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

84.96 Gigapixels/s

9% slightly higher pixel rate

77.82 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

169.9 Gigatexels/s

9% slightly higher texture rate

155.6 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.44 TFLOPS

9% slightly better floating point performance

4.98 TFLOPS

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

124th of 586

177th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 February

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 vs GeForce GTX 980 comparison

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

In our comparison, the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti 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 also has a significantly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

As stated by the manufacturer, the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti has significantly more memory with 6 GiB of memory compared to 4 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti has a slightly lower TDP at 120 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 980 at 165 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

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