NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q 8 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

5387 points

35% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

88 FPS

124 FPS

36 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

53 FPS

70 FPS

17 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

64 FPS

84 FPS

20 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

40 FPS

56 FPS

16 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

6332 points

8047 points

27% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

799.88 points

1574.05 points

96% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

66368 points

104025 points

56% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

61373 points

87150 points

42% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

53550 points

65188 points

21% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

65938 points

90092 points

36% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

62004 points

82332 points

32% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1500 MHz

104% significantly higher core clock speed

735 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1770 MHz

61% significantly higher boost clock speed

1095 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

6 GiB

8 GiB

33% slightly more memory

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

384 GB/s

33% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

120 W

90 W

33% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

84.96 Gigapixels/s

21% slightly higher pixel rate

70.08 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

169.9 Gigatexels/s

201.5 Gigatexels/s

18% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.44 TFLOPS

6.45 TFLOPS

18% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1536

2944

91% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

184

91% significantly 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

94th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 February

2019 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce GTX 1660 Ti vs GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q beats the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti in gaming performance.

Our database shows that the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti has a significantly 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.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q has slightly more memory with 8 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 RTX 2080 Max-Q has a slightly lower TDP at 90 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti at 120 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q over the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti.