Component comparison

GeForce RTX 3080 vs GeForce GTX 1660 Ti

GeForce RTX 3080 vs GeForce GTX 1660 Ti — detailed GPU comparison: performance, gaming FPS, specifications.

Advantages

A GeForce RTX 3080
  • + Release year (+2)
  • + VRAM (GB) (+2 GB)
  • + Memory clock (MHz) (+250 MHz)
  • + Bandwidth (GB/s) (+472 GB/s)
  • + Memory bus (bit) (+128 bit)
  • + TGP / TDP (W) (+35 W)
  • + Lithography (nm) (-4 nm)
  • + Transistors (M) (+21,700M)
  • + CUDA cores (+7168)
  • + TMUs (+176)
  • + ROPs (+48)
  • + FP32 performance (TFLOPS) (+25.67 TFLOPS)
  • + Pixel fill rate (GPixel/s) (+79.24 GPixel/s)
  • + Texture fill rate (GTexel/s) (+295.20 GTexel/s)
  • + Energy efficiency (+1.1)
  • + PassMark (overall) (+3457)
  • + 3DMark Time Spy (+5093)
  • + 3DMark Fire Strike (+12376)
  • + Geekbench OpenCL (+106103)
  • + Geekbench Vulkan (+87046)
  • + Normalized score (+19.1)
B GeForce GTX 1660 Ti
  • + Die size (mm²) (+344 mm²)

Detailed spec comparison

Spec Component A
GeForce RTX 3080
Component B
GeForce GTX 1660 Ti
Release year 2021 (+2) 2019
VRAM (GB) 8 GB (+2 GB) 6 GB
Memory type GDDR6 GDDR6
Memory clock (MHz) 1750 MHz (+250 MHz) 1500 MHz
Bandwidth (GB/s) 760 GB/s (+472 GB/s) 288 GB/s
Memory bus (bit) 320 bit (+128 bit) 192 bit
TGP / TDP (W) 115 W (+35 W) 80 W
Lithography (nm) 8 nm (-4 nm) 12 nm
Transistors (M) 28,300M (+21,700M) 6,600M
Die size (mm²) 628 mm² 284 mm² (+344 mm²)
Base clock (MHz)
Boost clock (MHz)
CUDA cores 8,704 (+7168) 1,536
TMUs 272 (+176) 96
ROPs 96 (+48) 48
RT cores 68
Tensor cores 272
FP32 performance (TFLOPS) 29.77 TFLOPS (+25.67 TFLOPS) 4.10 TFLOPS
Pixel fill rate (GPixel/s) 164.20 GPixel/s (+79.24 GPixel/s) 84.96 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate (GTexel/s) 465.10 GTexel/s (+295.20 GTexel/s) 169.90 GTexel/s
Energy efficiency 26.0 (+1.1) 24.9
PassMark (overall) 16,075 (+3457) 12,618
3DMark Time Spy 10,752 (+5093) 5,659
3DMark Fire Strike 27,194 (+12376) 14,818
Geekbench OpenCL 167,014 (+106103) 60,911
Geekbench Vulkan 145,176 (+87046) 58,130
Normalized score 82.8 (+19.1) 63.7

Only in component A

DLSS ReBAR ray_tracing

In both

CUDA

FPS in games (1080p)

Game GeForce RTX 3080 GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Delta
A Plague Tale Requiem 59 FPS 45 FPS +31.1% (A)
Alan Wake 2 55 FPS 30 FPS +83.3% (A)
Alan Wake Remastered 95 FPS 83 FPS +14.5% (A)
Anno 1800 78 FPS 69 FPS +13% (A)
Apex Legends 144 FPS 102 FPS +41.2% (A)
Assassin's Creed Mirage 89 FPS 66 FPS +34.8% (A)
Assassin´s Creed Odyssey 104 FPS 69 FPS +50.7% (A)
Assassin´s Creed Valhalla 72 FPS 49 FPS +46.9% (A)
Atlas Fallen 117 FPS 74 FPS +58.1% (A)
Atomic Heart 85 FPS 50 FPS +70% (A)
Avatar Frontiers of Pandora 60 FPS 28 FPS +114.3% (A)
Back 4 Blood 235 FPS 126 FPS +86.5% (A)
Baldur's Gate 3 90 FPS 54 FPS +66.7% (A)
Battlefield 2042 100 FPS 71 FPS +40.8% (A)
Battlefield 5 130 FPS 111 FPS +17.1% (A)
Borderlands 3 95 FPS 62 FPS +53.2% (A)
CS:GO 240 FPS 240 FPS
Call of Duty Black Ops Cold War 89 FPS 68 FPS +30.9% (A)
Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 2023 94 FPS 57 FPS +64.9% (A)
Call of Duty Vanguard 125 FPS 60 FPS +108.3% (A)
Company of Heroes 3 114 FPS 52 FPS +119.2% (A)
Control 82 FPS 51 FPS +60.8% (A)
Counter-Strike 2 212 FPS 147 FPS +44.2% (A)
Counter-Strike 2 169 FPS 104 FPS +62.5% (A)
Crysis Remastered 79 FPS 55 FPS +43.6% (A)
Cyberpunk 2077 121 FPS 86 FPS +40.7% (A)
Cyberpunk 2077 1.0 68 FPS 47 FPS +44.7% (A)
Cyberpunk 2077 1.6 83 FPS 54 FPS +53.7% (A)
Days Gone 126 FPS 83 FPS +51.8% (A)
Dead Island 2 158 FPS 86 FPS +83.7% (A)
Dead Space Remake 73 FPS 40 FPS +82.5% (A)
Death Stranding 84 FPS 88 FPS 4.8% (B)
Deathloop 113 FPS 66 FPS +71.2% (A)
Diablo 4 181 FPS 113 FPS +60.2% (A)
Dirt 5 62 FPS 56 FPS +10.7% (A)
Doom Eternal 165 FPS 133 FPS +24.1% (A)
Dota 2 134 FPS 121 FPS +10.7% (A)
Dying Light 2 87 FPS 40 FPS +117.5% (A)
EA Sports WRC 88 FPS 52 FPS +69.2% (A)
Elden Ring 59 FPS 57 FPS +3.5% (A)
Elex 2 88 FPS 53 FPS +66% (A)
Enshrouded 55 FPS 34 FPS +61.8% (A)
Escape from Tarkov 120 FPS 117 FPS +2.6% (A)
F1 2020 162 FPS 122 FPS +32.8% (A)
F1 2021 156 FPS 120 FPS +30% (A)
F1 22 195 FPS 117 FPS +66.7% (A)
F1 23 184 FPS 109 FPS +68.8% (A)
FIFA 21 198 FPS 214 FPS 8.1% (B)
FIFA 22 273 FPS 215 FPS +27% (A)
Far Cry 5 129 FPS 93 FPS +38.7% (A)
Far Cry 6 65 FPS 78 FPS 20% (B)
Far Cry New Dawn 68 FPS 79 FPS 16.2% (B)
Farming Simulator 22 165 FPS 121 FPS +36.4% (A)
Final Fantasy XV Benchmark 56 FPS 55 FPS +1.8% (A)
Fortnite 160 FPS 120 FPS +33.3% (A)
Forza Horizon 4 194 FPS 134 FPS +44.8% (A)
Forza Horizon 5 152 FPS 107 FPS +42.1% (A)
GRID 2019 113 FPS 91 FPS +24.2% (A)
GRID Legends 131 FPS 118 FPS +11% (A)
GTA V 140 FPS 140 FPS
GTA V 137 FPS 124 FPS +10.5% (A)
Gears Tactics 136 FPS 90 FPS +51.1% (A)
Ghostwire Tokyo 149 FPS 89 FPS +67.4% (A)
God of War 91 FPS 52 FPS +75% (A)
Guardians of the Galaxy 124 FPS 72 FPS +72.2% (A)
Halo Infinite 101 FPS 70 FPS +44.3% (A)
High On Life 133 FPS 78 FPS +70.5% (A)
Hitman 3 131 FPS 99 FPS +32.3% (A)
Hogwarts Legacy 77 FPS 48 FPS +60.4% (A)
Horizon Zero Dawn 89 FPS 70 FPS +27.1% (A)
Hunt Showdown 110 FPS 69 FPS +59.4% (A)
Immortals Fenyx Rising 88 FPS 59 FPS +49.2% (A)
Immortals of Aveum 53 FPS 44 FPS +20.5% (A)
Lies of P 131 FPS 77 FPS +70.1% (A)
Lords of the Fallen 66 FPS 30 FPS +120% (A)
Mafia Definitive Edition 99 FPS 67 FPS +47.8% (A)
Metro Exodus 100 FPS 54 FPS +85.2% (A)
Monster Hunter Stories 2 144 FPS 134 FPS +7.5% (A)
Need for Speed Heat 94 FPS 80 FPS +17.5% (A)
Need for Speed Unbound 100 FPS 67 FPS +49.3% (A)
New World 75 FPS 56 FPS +33.9% (A)
Outriders 109 FPS 84 FPS +29.8% (A)
Overwatch 240 FPS 240 FPS
PUBG 140 FPS 140 FPS
Palworld 97 FPS 55 FPS +76.4% (A)
Prince of Persia The Lost Crown 307 FPS 291 FPS +5.5% (A)
Rage 2 116 FPS 70 FPS +65.7% (A)
Rainbow Six Extraction 218 FPS 105 FPS +107.6% (A)
Ratchet & Clank Rift Apart 82 FPS 40 FPS +105% (A)
Ready or Not 121 FPS 101 FPS +19.8% (A)
Red Dead Redemption 2 85 FPS 51 FPS +66.7% (A)
Resident Evil 4 Remake 140 FPS 75 FPS +86.7% (A)
Resident Evil Village 155 FPS 99 FPS +56.6% (A)
Returnal 88 FPS 52 FPS +69.2% (A)
Riders Republic 113 FPS 55 FPS +105.5% (A)
Rise of the Tomb Raider 157 FPS 86 FPS +82.6% (A)
Serious Sam 4 75 FPS 67 FPS +11.9% (A)
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 165 FPS 114 FPS +44.7% (A)
Skull & Bones 73 FPS 55 FPS +32.7% (A)
Sons of the Forest 77 FPS 55 FPS +40% (A)
Spider-Man Miles Morales 104 FPS 76 FPS +36.8% (A)
Star Wars Jedi Fallen Order 98 FPS 85 FPS +15.3% (A)
Star Wars Jedi Survivor 68 FPS 39 FPS +74.4% (A)
Star Wars Squadrons 198 FPS 159 FPS +24.5% (A)
Starfield 52 FPS 30 FPS +73.3% (A)
The Callisto Protocol 87 FPS 81 FPS +7.4% (A)
The Division 2 105 FPS 78 FPS +34.6% (A)
The Finals 152 FPS 99 FPS +53.5% (A)
The Last of Us 76 FPS 42 FPS +81% (A)
The Quarry 97 FPS 56 FPS +73.2% (A)
The Witcher 3 191 FPS 103 FPS +85.4% (A)
The Witcher 3 149 FPS 93 FPS +60.2% (A)
The Witcher 3 v4 132 FPS 43 FPS +207% (A)
Tiny Tina's Wonderlands 113 FPS 67 FPS +68.7% (A)
Total War Pharaoh 134 FPS 82 FPS +63.4% (A)
Total War: Three Kingdoms 108 FPS 64 FPS +68.8% (A)
Uncharted Legacy of Thieves Collection 76 FPS 51 FPS +49% (A)
Valorant 220 FPS 209 FPS +5.3% (A)
Vampire Bloodhunt 238 FPS 124 FPS +91.9% (A)
Watch Dogs Legion 80 FPS 71 FPS +12.7% (A)
X-Plane 11.11 66 FPS 64 FPS +3.1% (A)
Yakuza Like a Dragon 112 FPS 74 FPS +51.4% (A)

Specs from public sources (PassMark, Geekbench). FPS measured at 1080p medium settings.

Based on the comparison: GeForce RTX 3080 wins 21 of the comparable criteria. The choice depends on your use case.

🤔 How to choose

Universal advice for any use case.

  • Reliability vs price: reliability (median 50) ↔ price (median 385.1).
  • Weight vs CPU: mobility (median 48) ↔ overall performance (median 49.8).
  • Upgradeability vs battery: upgradability (median 50) ↔ battery life (median 2.8).