GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER MINI ITX OC 6G
vs
MSI GeForce RTX 2080 Sea Hawk EK X


GPU comparison with benchmarks

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER MINI ITX OC 6G has 1408 shader units and these clock a maximum of 1.80 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 5.07 TFLOPS.

The MSI GeForce RTX 2080 Sea Hawk EK X has 2944 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 1.86 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 10.95 TFLOPS.

GPU

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER MINI ITX OC 6G is equipped with a graphics chip of the Turing architecture, which has 22 streaming multiprocessors.

The graphics card MSI GeForce RTX 2080 Sea Hawk EK X is based on the Turing architecture and is equipped with 46 execution units.
GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER MINI ITX OC 6G GPU MSI GeForce RTX 2080 Sea Hawk EK X
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER Based on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080
TU116-300-A1 GPU Chip TU104
Turing Architecture Turing
22 Streaming Multiprocessors 46
1408 Shader 2944
48 Render Output Units 64
88 Texture Units 184
0 Raytracing Cores 46

Memory

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER MINI ITX OC 6G is equipped with a 6 GB large GDDR6 graphics memory, which is equipped with 1.750 GHz clocks.

The MSI GeForce RTX 2080 Sea Hawk EK X has a 8 GB large GDDR6 graphics memory and the memory clock is 1.750GHz.

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

Clock Speeds

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER MINI ITX OC 6G has a turbo clock of 1.800 GHz. The turbo frequency of the MSI GeForce RTX 2080 Sea Hawk EK X is 1.860 GHz.

1.530 GHz Base Clock 1.515 GHz
1.800 GHz Boost Clock 1.860 GHz
1.79 GHz Avg (Game) Clock 1.71 GHz
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER MINI ITX OC 6G has 1 x 8-Pin connectors through which it is supplied with power. The manufacturer specifies the maximum operating temperature of the graphics card as 93 °C.

The MSI GeForce RTX 2080 Sea Hawk EK X is equipped with a 2 x 8-Pin PCIe power connector that supplies it with power. The maximum operating temperature of the card is 88 °C.

125 W TDP 260 W
-- TDP (up) 310 W
93 °C Tjunction max 88 °C
1 x 8-Pin PCIe-Power 2 x 8-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The graphics processor and graphics memory of the GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER MINI ITX OC 6G are cooled with a Air cooling.

The MSI GeForce RTX 2080 Sea Hawk EK X is cooled by a Water cooling.

Axial Fan-Type --
1 x 90 mm Fan 1 --
-- Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type Water cooling
dB Noise (Idle) 0 dB
-- Noise (Load) 0 dB

Connectivity

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER MINI ITX OC 6G supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.2.

The MSI GeForce RTX 2080 Sea Hawk EK X supports HDCP in version 2.2 and all previous versions.

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

Featureset

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER MINI ITX OC 6G supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12_1.

The MSI GeForce RTX 2080 Sea Hawk EK X supports Microsoft's DirectX version 12_2 (Ultimate).

7680x4320 Max. resolution 7680x4320
12_1 DirectX 12_2 (Ultimate)
No Raytracing Yes
Yes DLSS / FSR Yes
No LED lighting LED MSI Mystic Light

Supported Video Codecs

This area lists which video codecs can be decoded or encoded by the graphics cards in hardware. As a result, the power consumption can be reduced due to a lower processor load.

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

Dimensions

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER MINI ITX OC 6G is 36 mm wide and therefore needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the MSI GeForce RTX 2080 Sea Hawk EK X is 36 mm and thus requires the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

170 mm Length 305 mm
121 mm Height 169 mm
36 mm Width 42 mm
2 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 2 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight 1365 g
PCIe 3.0 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 3.0 x 16

Additional data

Manufactured using the 12 nanometer process, GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER MINI ITX OC 6G was released in Q4/2019.

The MSI GeForce RTX 2080 Sea Hawk EK X published in Q2/2019 is manufactured with a structure width of 12 nanometers.

GV-N166SIXOC-6GD Part-no --
Q4/2019 Release date Q2/2019
229 $ (Reference) Launch Price 849 $
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)

MSI GeForce RTX 2080 Sea Hawk EK X MSI GeForce RTX 2080 Sea Hawk EK X
8 GB GDDR6
41 fps (avg)

2560x1440 (1440p)

MSI GeForce RTX 2080 Sea Hawk EK X MSI GeForce RTX 2080 Sea Hawk EK X
8 GB GDDR6
50 fps (avg)

1920x1080 (1080p)

MSI GeForce RTX 2080 Sea Hawk EK X MSI GeForce RTX 2080 Sea Hawk EK X
8 GB GDDR6
72 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.

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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