NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 10 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080

Price

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$ 174.97

$ 575.02 significantly less expensive

$ 749.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

3968 points

11608 points

192% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

88 FPS

281 FPS

193 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

53 FPS

141 FPS

88 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

64 FPS

200 FPS

136 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

40 FPS

111 FPS

71 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

6332 points

17631 points

178% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

799.88 points

4821.52 points

502% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

66368 points

206390 points

210% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

61373 points

181771 points

196% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

53550 points

126138 points

135% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

65938 points

173309 points

162% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

62004 points

158661 points

155% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1500 MHz

4% slightly higher core clock speed

1440 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1770 MHz

3% slightly higher boost clock speed

1710 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

6 GiB

10 GiB

66% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit

320 Bit

66% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

288 GB/s

760.3 GB/s

163% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

120 W

166% significantly lower TDP

320 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

84.96 Gigapixels/s

164.2 Gigapixels/s

93% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

169.9 Gigatexels/s

465.1 Gigatexels/s

173% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.44 TFLOPS

29.77 TFLOPS

447% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1536

8704

466% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

272

183% 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

32nd of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 February

2020 September

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 vs GeForce RTX 3080 benchmarks

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

Our database shows that 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 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 has significantly more memory with 10 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 has a significantly lower TDP at 120 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3080 at 320 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 over the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti.