NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 8 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080

Price

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$ 229.39

$ 138.31 significantly less expensive

$ 367.70

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

3653 points

7102 points

94% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

82 FPS

161 FPS

80 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

49 FPS

97 FPS

48 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

60 FPS

114 FPS

54 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

37 FPS

73 FPS

36 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

5419 points

11016 points

103% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

722.48 points

2341.39 points

224% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

60503 points

120612 points

99% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

55712 points

105930 points

90% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

51028 points

87178 points

70% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

59886 points

112025 points

87% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

56143 points

107797 points

92% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1530 MHz

0.99% slightly higher core clock speed

1515 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1785 MHz

4% slightly higher boost clock speed

1710 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

192.1 GB/s

448 GB/s

133% significantly 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

85.68 Gigapixels/s

109.4 Gigapixels/s

27% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

157.1 Gigatexels/s

314.6 Gigatexels/s

100% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.03 TFLOPS

10.07 TFLOPS

100% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1408

2944

109% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

184

109% 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

133rd of 586

67th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 March

2018 September

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.6

GeForce GTX 1660 vs GeForce RTX 2080 comparison

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 2080 graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 1660 in our tests.

Our database shows that the GeForce GTX 1660 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 also has a slightly 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 has slightly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 6 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 1660 has a significantly lower TDP at 120 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 2080 at 250 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 terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce RTX 2080 is better than the GeForce GTX 1660.

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