Gainward GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER Pegasus OC
vs
Zotac GeForce GTX 980 OC


GPU comparison with benchmarks

In the gpu comparison between the Gainward GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER Pegasus OC and the Zotac GeForce GTX 980 OC, we compare both the technical data and the benchmark results of the two graphics cards.

GPU

The Gainward GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER Pegasus OC is based on the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER and has 1408 texture shaders and 22 execution units.

Zotac GeForce GTX 980 OC is based on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980, which has 2048 shaders and 16 execution units.
Gainward GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER Pegasus OC GPU Zotac GeForce GTX 980 OC
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER Based on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980
TU116-300-A1 GPU Chip GM204-400-A1
Turing Architecture Maxwell 2.0
22 Streaming Multiprocessors 16
1408 Shader 2048
48 Render Output Units 64
88 Texture Units 128
0 Raytracing Cores 0

Memory

The Gainward GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER Pegasus OC has 6 GB of graphics memory of the type GDDR6 and achieves a memory bandwidth of 336 GB/s.

The Zotac GeForce GTX 980 OC can access 4 GB GDDR5 graphics memory and thus achieves a memory bandwidth of 224 GB/s.

6 GB Memory Size 4 GB
GDDR6 Memory Type GDDR5
1.750 GHz Memory Clock 1.753 GHz
14.0 Gbps Memory Speed 7.0 Gbps
336 GB/s Memory bandwidth 224 GB/s
192 bit Memory Interface 256 bit

Clock Speeds

The Gainward GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER Pegasus OC clocks in the base with up to 1.530 GHz. The base frequency of the Zotac GeForce GTX 980 OC is 1.139 GHz.

1.530 GHz Base Clock 1.139 GHz
1.830 GHz Boost Clock 1.240 GHz
1.79 GHz Avg (Game) Clock
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The TDP (Thermal Design Power) of the Gainward GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER Pegasus OC is 125 W. The graphics card is supplied with energy via the 1 x 8-Pin connector.

The Zotac GeForce GTX 980 OC has a TDP of 165 W and is supplied with the required energy via 2 x 6-Pin PCIe power connectors.

125 W TDP 165 W
-- TDP (up) --
93 °C Tjunction max 98 °C
1 x 8-Pin PCIe-Power 2 x 6-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The Gainward GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER Pegasus OC has a total of 1 Axial fans.

The Zotac GeForce GTX 980 OC has 1 Radial fans to cool the GPU and memory.

Axial Fan-Type Radial
1 x 100 mm Fan 1 1 x 65 mm
-- Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
dB Noise (Idle) 0 dB
-- Noise (Load) --

Connectivity

In the connectivity category, we recorded the number of ports on a graphics card. A total of 3 screens can be connected to the Gainward GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER Pegasus OC.

The Zotac GeForce GTX 980 OC supports a maximum of 4 screens.

3 Max. Displays 4
2.2 HDCP-Version 2.2
1x HDMI v2.0b HDMI Ports 1x HDMI v2.0
1x DP v1.4 DP Ports 3x DP v1.2
1 DVI Ports 1
-- VGA Ports --
-- USB-C Ports --

Featureset

The Gainward GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER Pegasus OC supports a maximum resolution of 7680x4320 pixels.

The maximum resolution of the Zotac GeForce GTX 980 OC is 4096x2160 pixels.

7680x4320 Max. resolution 4096x2160
12_1 DirectX 12_1
No Raytracing No
Yes DLSS / FSR No
No LED lighting LED No LED lighting

Supported Video Codecs

The support and acceleration of certain video codecs directly in the graphics card reduces the load when playing or creating videos.

Decode / Encode h264 Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode h265 / HEVC No
No AV1 No
Decode VP8 Decode
Decode VP9 No

Dimensions

The Gainward GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER Pegasus OC is 168 mm long, 126 mm high and -- wide.

The Zotac GeForce GTX 980 OC is 267 mm long, 111 mm high and 38 mm wide.

168 mm Length 267 mm
126 mm Height 111 mm
-- Width 38 mm
2 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 2 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight --
PCIe 3.0 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 3 x 16

Additional data

The Gainward GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER Pegasus OC was released in Q4/2019 at a price of 229 $ (Reference).

The Zotac GeForce GTX 980 OC was introduced in Q3/2014 at a price of 529 $.

NE6166SS18J9-161F Part-no ZT-90205-10P
Q4/2019 Release date Q3/2014
229 $ (Reference) Launch Price 529 $
12 nm Structure size 28 nm
data sheet Documents --

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Benchmark results

3DMark Benchmark (DirectX, Raytracing)

3DMark is a benchmark program that determines the performance of certain components of a computer and then reports the performance as a numerical value.

Time Spy Extreme Graphics score

Port Royal (Raytracing)

The Last of Us Part 1

The Last of Us Part One is a game released by Sony in June 2013 exclusively for the Playstation and released for the PC in early 2023. The benchmark values here were determined at high details.

2560x1440 (1440p)

1920x1080 (1080p)

Battlefield 5

Battlefield 5 is a visually stunning game that is ideal as a graphics card benchmark. We test the game with maximum details on Windows 10.

3840x2160 (2160p)

2560x1440 (1440p)

1920x1080 (1080p)

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL, Vulkan, Metal)

Geekbench 6 is a cross-platform benchmark for main processors, which also carries out 3 different graphics benchmarks and outputs them in the form of a numerical value.

Geekbench 6 - OpenCL

Geekbench 6 - Vulkan

FP32 Performance (Single-precision TFLOPS)

The theoretical computing power of the graphics card with single precision (32 bit) in TFLOPS indicates how many trillion FP32 floating point operations the graphics card (GPU) can perform per second.

FP32 (TFLOPS)

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