NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti 12 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti

Price

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$ 229.39

$ 639.60 significantly less expensive

$ 868.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

3653 points

14177 points

288% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

82 FPS

342 FPS

261 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

49 FPS

168 FPS

119 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

60 FPS

245 FPS

185 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

37 FPS

135 FPS

98 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

5419 points

19628 points

262% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

722.48 points

5580.42 points

672% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

60503 points

235513 points

289% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

55712 points

209081 points

275% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

51028 points

131975 points

158% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

59886 points

191836 points

220% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

56143 points

173043 points

208% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1530 MHz

11% slightly higher core clock speed

1370 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1785 MHz

7% slightly higher boost clock speed

1665 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

6 GiB

12 GiB

100% significantly more memory

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

192.1 GB/s

912.4 GB/s

374% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

120 W

191% significantly lower TDP

350 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

85.68 Gigapixels/s

186.5 Gigapixels/s

117% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

157.1 Gigatexels/s

532.8 Gigatexels/s

239% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.03 TFLOPS

34.1 TFLOPS

578% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1408

10240

627% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

320

263% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

112

133% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

133rd of 586

22nd of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 March

2021 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

GDDR6X

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 3080 Ti comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 1660 in gaming.

The GeForce GTX 1660 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 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti has significantly more memory with 12 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 3080 Ti at 350 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 3080 Ti over the GeForce GTX 1660.

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