MSI GeForce GTX 1080 SEA HAWK X
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GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1660 TI GAMING OC 6G


GPU comparison with benchmarks

The MSI GeForce GTX 1080 SEA HAWK X has 2560 shader units and these clock a maximum of 1.85 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 9.45 TFLOPS.

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1660 TI GAMING OC 6G has 1536 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 1.86 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 5.72 TFLOPS.

GPU

The MSI GeForce GTX 1080 SEA HAWK X is equipped with a graphics chip of the Pascal architecture, which has 20 streaming multiprocessors.

The graphics card GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1660 TI GAMING OC 6G is based on the Turing architecture and is equipped with 24 execution units.
MSI GeForce GTX 1080 SEA HAWK X GPU GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1660 TI GAMING OC 6G
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Based on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti
GP104-400-A1 / GP104-410-A1 GPU Chip TU116-400-A1
Pascal Architecture Turing
20 Streaming Multiprocessors 24
2560 Shader 1536
64 Render Output Units 48
160 Texture Units 96
0 Raytracing Cores 0

Memory

The MSI GeForce GTX 1080 SEA HAWK X is equipped with a 8 GB large GDDR5X graphics memory, which is equipped with 1.264 GHz clocks.

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1660 TI GAMING OC 6G has a 6 GB large GDDR6 graphics memory and the memory clock is 1.500GHz.

8 GB Memory Size 6 GB
GDDR5X Memory Type GDDR6
1.264 GHz Memory Clock 1.500 GHz
10.1 Gbps Memory Speed 12.0 Gbps
323 GB/s Memory bandwidth 288 GB/s
256 bit Memory Interface 192 bit

Clock Speeds

The MSI GeForce GTX 1080 SEA HAWK X has a turbo clock of 1.847 GHz. The turbo frequency of the GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1660 TI GAMING OC 6G is 1.860 GHz.

1.607 GHz Base Clock 1.500 GHz
1.847 GHz Boost Clock 1.860 GHz
1.82 GHz Avg (Game) Clock 1.77 GHz
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The MSI GeForce GTX 1080 SEA HAWK X 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 94 °C.

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1660 TI GAMING OC 6G is equipped with a 1 x 8-Pin PCIe power connector that supplies it with power. The maximum operating temperature of the card is 95 °C.

180 W TDP 120 W
-- TDP (up) --
94 °C Tjunction max 95 °C
1 x 8-Pin PCIe-Power 1 x 8-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The graphics processor and graphics memory of the MSI GeForce GTX 1080 SEA HAWK X are cooled with a AIO water cooling.

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1660 TI GAMING OC 6G is cooled by a Air cooling.

Axial (Radiator) Fan-Type Axial
1 x 120 mm Fan 1 3 x 80 mm
-- Fan 2 --
AIO water cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
dB Noise (Idle) dB
-- Noise (Load) --

Connectivity

The MSI GeForce GTX 1080 SEA HAWK X supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.2.

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1660 TI GAMING OC 6G supports HDCP in version 2.2 and all previous versions.

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

Featureset

The MSI GeForce GTX 1080 SEA HAWK X supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12_1.

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1660 TI GAMING OC 6G supports Microsoft's DirectX version 12_1.

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

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 MSI GeForce GTX 1080 SEA HAWK X is 40 mm wide and therefore needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1660 TI GAMING OC 6G is 40 mm and thus requires the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

270 mm Length 280 mm
111 mm Height 117 mm
40 mm Width 40 mm
2 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 2 PCIe-Slots
1249 g Weight --
PCIe 3.0 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 3.0 x 16

Additional data

Manufactured using the 16 nanometer process, MSI GeForce GTX 1080 SEA HAWK X was released in Q2/2016.

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1660 TI GAMING OC 6G published in Q1/2019 is manufactured with a structure width of 12 nanometers.

-- Part-no GV-N166TGAMING OC-6GD
Q2/2016 Release date Q1/2019
599 $ (Reference) Launch Price 279 $ (Reference)
16 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)

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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