NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

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Graphics Processor

GPU model TU116 GM204
GPU variant TU116-300-A1 GM204-400-A1
Architecture Turing Maxwell 2.0
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Manufacturing process 12 nm 28 nm
Number of transistors 6,600 million 5,200 million
Die size 284 mm² 398 mm²

Graphics Card

Release date Mar 14th, 2019 Sep 19th, 2014
Generation GeForce 16 GeForce 900
Predecessor GeForce 10 GeForce 700
Successor GeForce 20 GeForce 10
Production Active End-of-life
Launch price 219 USD 549 USD
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Reviews 40 in our database 146 in our database

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 Configuration

Memory size 6 GB 4 GB
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5
Memory bus width 192 bit 256 bit
Bandwidth 192.1 GB/s 224.4 GB/s

Render Configuration

Shading units 1408 2048
TMUs 88 128
ROPs 48 64
SM count 22
Cache L1 64 KB (per SM) 48 KB (per SMM)
Cache L2 1536 KB 2 MB
SMM count 16

Performance

Pixel rate 85.68 GPixel/s 77.82 GPixel/s
Texture rate 157.1 GTexel/s 155.6 GTexel/s
FP16 (half) performance 10.05 TFLOPS (2:1)
FP32 (float) performance 5.027 TFLOPS 4.981 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) performance 157.1 GFLOPS (1:32) 155.6 GFLOPS (1:32)

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width Dual-slot Dual-slot
Length 229 mm 9 inches 267 mm 10.5 inches
Width 111 mm 4.4 inches 111 mm 4.4 inches
Height 35 mm 1.4 inches 40 mm 1.6 inches
TDP 120 W 165 W
Suggested PSU 300 W 450 W
Outputs 1x DVI1x HDMI1x DisplayPort 1x DVI1x HDMI3x DisplayPort
Power connectors 1x 8-pin 2x 6-pin
Board number PG165 SKU 0 PG401

API Support & Features

DirectX 12 (12_1) 12 (12_1)
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 3.0 3.0
Vulkan 1.2 1.1
CUDA 7.5 5.2
Shader model 6.6 6.4

Other Features

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