Gainward GeForce RTX 2080 Founders
vs
ASUS TUF Gaming X3 GeForce GTX 1660 OC


GPU comparison with benchmarks

In the gpu comparison between the Gainward GeForce RTX 2080 Founders and the ASUS TUF Gaming X3 GeForce GTX 1660 OC, we compare both the technical data and the benchmark results of the two graphics cards.

GPU

The Gainward GeForce RTX 2080 Founders is based on the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 and has 2944 texture shaders and 46 execution units.

ASUS TUF Gaming X3 GeForce GTX 1660 OC is based on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660, which has 1408 shaders and 22 execution units.
Gainward GeForce RTX 2080 Founders GPU ASUS TUF Gaming X3 GeForce GTX 1660 OC
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Based on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660
TU104 GPU Chip TU116-300-A1
Turing Architecture Turing
46 Streaming Multiprocessors 22
2944 Shader 1408
64 Render Output Units 48
184 Texture Units 88
46 Raytracing Cores 0

Memory

The Gainward GeForce RTX 2080 Founders has 8 GB of graphics memory of the type GDDR6 and achieves a memory bandwidth of 448 GB/s.

The ASUS TUF Gaming X3 GeForce GTX 1660 OC can access 6 GB GDDR5 graphics memory and thus achieves a memory bandwidth of 192 GB/s.

8 GB Memory Size 6 GB
GDDR6 Memory Type GDDR5
1.750 GHz Memory Clock 2.000 GHz
14.0 Gbps Memory Speed 8.0 Gbps
448 GB/s Memory bandwidth 192 GB/s
256 bit Memory Interface 192 bit

Clock Speeds

The Gainward GeForce RTX 2080 Founders clocks in the base with up to 1.515 GHz. The base frequency of the ASUS TUF Gaming X3 GeForce GTX 1660 OC is 1.530 GHz.

1.515 GHz Base Clock 1.530 GHz
1.710 GHz Boost Clock 1.890 GHz
Avg (Game) Clock 1.86 GHz
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The TDP (Thermal Design Power) of the Gainward GeForce RTX 2080 Founders is 215 W. The graphics card is supplied with energy via the 1 x 6-Pin, 1 x 8-Pin connector.

The ASUS TUF Gaming X3 GeForce GTX 1660 OC has a TDP of 120 W and is supplied with the required energy via 1 x 8-Pin PCIe power connectors.

215 W TDP 120 W
-- TDP (up) --
88 °C Tjunction max 95 °C
1 x 6-Pin, 1 x 8-Pin PCIe-Power 1 x 8-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The Gainward GeForce RTX 2080 Founders has a total of 1 Radial fans.

The ASUS TUF Gaming X3 GeForce GTX 1660 OC has 3 Axial fans to cool the GPU and memory.

Radial Fan-Type Axial
1 x 75 mm Fan 1 3 x 80 mm
-- Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
dB Noise (Idle) dB
-- Noise (Load) --

Connectivity

In the connectivity category, we recorded the number of ports on a graphics card. A total of 4 screens can be connected to the Gainward GeForce RTX 2080 Founders.

The ASUS TUF Gaming X3 GeForce GTX 1660 OC supports a maximum of 3 screens.

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

Featureset

The Gainward GeForce RTX 2080 Founders supports a maximum resolution of 7680x4320 pixels.

The maximum resolution of the ASUS TUF Gaming X3 GeForce GTX 1660 OC is 7680x4320 pixels.

7680x4320 Max. resolution 7680x4320
12_2 (Ultimate) DirectX 12_1
Yes Raytracing No
Yes DLSS / FSR Yes
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 Decode / Encode
No AV1 No
Decode VP8 Decode
Decode VP9 Decode

Dimensions

The Gainward GeForce RTX 2080 Founders is 268 mm long, 112 mm high and -- wide.

The ASUS TUF Gaming X3 GeForce GTX 1660 OC is 264 mm long, 130 mm high and 55 mm wide.

268 mm Length 264 mm
112 mm Height 130 mm
-- Width 55 mm
2 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 3 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight --
PCIe 3.0 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 3.0 x 16

Additional data

The Gainward GeForce RTX 2080 Founders was released in Q3/2018 at a price of 699 $ (Reference).

The ASUS TUF Gaming X3 GeForce GTX 1660 OC was introduced in Q1/2019 at a price of 219 $ (Reference).

426018336-4306 Part-no TUF3-GTX1660-O6G-GAMING
Q3/2018 Release date Q1/2019
699 $ (Reference) Launch Price 219 $ (Reference)
12 nm Structure size 12 nm
data sheet Documents data sheet

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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)

Speed Way Graphics Score (Raytracing)

Cyberpunk 2077

Cyberpunk 2077 was developed by CD Projekt Red and is based on the development studio's own REDengine 4. Ray tracing is switched off in our benchmarks.

3840x2160 (2160p)

Gainward GeForce RTX 2080 Founders Gainward GeForce RTX 2080 Founders
8 GB GDDR6
38 fps (avg)

2560x1440 (1440p)

Gainward GeForce RTX 2080 Founders Gainward GeForce RTX 2080 Founders
8 GB GDDR6
46 fps (avg)

1920x1080 (1080p)

Gainward GeForce RTX 2080 Founders Gainward GeForce RTX 2080 Founders
8 GB GDDR6
66 fps (avg)

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.

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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