NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti 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

3968 points

3% slightly better overall score

3839 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

88 FPS

12 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

76 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

53 FPS

58 FPS

5 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

64 FPS

13 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

52 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

40 FPS

47 FPS

7 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

6332 points

9% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

5794 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

799.88 points

49% significantly higher Blender score

536.77 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

66368 points

82% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

36268 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

61373 points

53% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

40025 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

53550 points

54616 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

65938 points

50% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

43854 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

62004 points

29% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

47793 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1500 MHz

39% slightly higher core clock speed

1076 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1770 MHz

64% 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

288 GB/s

336.6 GB/s

16% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

120 W

108% significantly lower TDP

250 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

84.96 Gigapixels/s

103.3 Gigapixels/s

21% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

169.9 Gigatexels/s

189.4 Gigatexels/s

11% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.44 TFLOPS

6.06 TFLOPS

11% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1536

2816

83% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

176

83% 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

124th of 586

127th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 February

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 Ti vs GeForce GTX 980 Ti specs and performance

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 980 Ti in our tests.

In our comparison, the GeForce GTX 1660 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 GTX 1660 Ti also has a significantly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that they both have the same amount of memory at 6 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti has a significantly lower TDP at 120 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 980 Ti at 250 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti over the GeForce GTX 980 Ti.