GPU Comparison

NVIDIA

GEFORCE

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660

CORE STATE TU116

VRAM 6 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1785 MHz

TDP 120 W

BUS WIDTH 192 bit

ARCHITECTURE Turing

nm

PROCESS 12 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2019

VS

NVIDIA

GEFORCE

GeForce GTX 980

CORE STATE GM204

VRAM 4 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1216 MHz

TDP 165 W

BUS WIDTH 256 bit

ARCHITECTURE Maxwell 2.0

nm

PROCESS 28 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2014

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

1,065

474

geekbench_opencl

57,988

33,457

geekbench_vulkan

55,845

38,172

passmark_directx_10

61

53

passmark_directx_11

79

83

passmark_directx_12

49

46

passmark_directx_9

177

164

passmark_g2d

776

792

passmark_g3d

11,646

11,095

passmark_gpu_compute

4,963

4,753

geekbench_metal

N/A

15,163

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

GTX 1660

GTX 980

Core Specs

Shading Units

1,408

2,048 +45.5%

Shaders

1,408

2,048 +45.5%

TMUs

88

128 +45.5%

ROPs

48

64 +33.3%

SM Count

22

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Clocks

Base Clock

1530 MHz

1127 MHz

Boost Clock

1785 MHz

1216 MHz

Memory Clock

2001 MHz 8 Gbps effective

1753 MHz 7 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

6 GB

4 GB

VRAM (MB)

6,144

4,096 -33.3%

Memory Type

GDDR5

GDDR5

Memory Bus

192 bit

256 bit

Bandwidth

192.1 GB/s

224.4 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

48 KB (per SMM)

L2 Cache

1536 KB

2 MB

Performance

Pixel Rate

85.68 GPixel/s

77.82 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

157.1 GTexel/s

155.6 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

5.027 TFLOPS

4.981 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

157.1 GFLOPS (1:32)

155.6 GFLOPS (1:32)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

10.05 TFLOPS (2:1)

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Power

TDP

120 W

165 W

TDP (W)

120

165 +37.5%

Suggested PSU

300 W

450 W

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

2x 6-pin

Architecture

Architecture

Turing

Maxwell 2.0

GPU Name

TU116

GM204

Generation

GeForce 16

GeForce 900

Process Size

12 nm

28 nm

Transistors

6,600 million

5,200 million

Die Size

284 mm²

398 mm²

Foundry

TSMC

TSMC

Density

23.2M / mm²

13.1M / mm²

API Support

DirectX

12 (12_1)

12 (12_1)

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Vulkan

1.4

1.4

OpenCL

3.0

3.0

CUDA

7.5

5.2

Shader Model

6.8

6.8

Physical

Slot Width

Dual-slot

Dual-slot

Length

229 mm 9 inches

267 mm 10.5 inches

Height

111 mm 4.4 inches

111 mm 4.4 inches

Outputs

1x DVI1x HDMI 2.01x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.2

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 3.0 x16

Other

Launch Price

219 USD

549 USD

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

GeForce 10

GeForce 700

Successor

GeForce 20

GeForce 10

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