NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Founders Edition
vs
ASUS TUF Gaming X3 GeForce GTX 1660 TI


GPU comparison with benchmarks

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Founders Edition is based on the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 (Ampere) and has 10 GB GDDR6X graphics memory with a bandwidth of 760 GB/s.

The ASUS TUF Gaming X3 GeForce GTX 1660 TI is based on the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti (Turing) and has 6 GB GDDR6 graphics memory with a bandwidth of 288 GB/s.

GPU

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Founders Edition has the GA102-200-K1-A1 graphics chip installed, which is based on the Ampere architecture.

The ASUS TUF Gaming X3 GeForce GTX 1660 TI is based on the graphics chip TU116-400-A1, which comes from the Turing architecture.
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Founders Edition GPU ASUS TUF Gaming X3 GeForce GTX 1660 TI
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Based on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti
GA102-200-K1-A1 GPU Chip TU116-400-A1
Ampere Architecture Turing
68 Streaming Multiprocessors 24
8704 Shader 1536
96 Render Output Units 48
272 Texture Units 96
68 Raytracing Cores 0

Memory

The graphics memory of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Founders Edition clocks at 1.188 GHz, which corresponds to a speed of 19.0 Gbps.

The graphics memory speed of the ASUS TUF Gaming X3 GeForce GTX 1660 TI is 12.0 Gbps and the clock speed is 1.500 GHz.

10 GB Memory Size 6 GB
GDDR6X Memory Type GDDR6
1.188 GHz Memory Clock 1.500 GHz
19.0 Gbps Memory Speed 12.0 Gbps
760 GB/s Memory bandwidth 288 GB/s
320 bit Memory Interface 192 bit

Clock Speeds

The clock frequency of a graphics card determines the speed in connection with the graphics architecture.

1.440 GHz Base Clock 1.500 GHz
1.710 GHz Boost Clock 1.800 GHz
Avg (Game) Clock 1.77 GHz
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Founders Edition is powered by 2 x 8-Pin connectors. The TDP (Thermal Design Power) of the graphics card is 320 W.

The ASUS TUF Gaming X3 GeForce GTX 1660 TI has 1 x 8-Pin PCIe power connectors that supply it with energy. The manufacturer specifies the TDP of the card as 120 W.

320 W TDP 120 W
370 W TDP (up) --
93 °C Tjunction max 95 °C
2 x 8-Pin PCIe-Power 1 x 8-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Founders Edition is equipped with a total of 2 Axial main fans.

The ASUS TUF Gaming X3 GeForce GTX 1660 TI has 3 Axial main fans that cool the GPU and memory.

Axial Fan-Type Axial
2 x 85 mm Fan 1 3 x 80 mm
-- Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
0 dB Noise (Idle) dB
43 dB Noise (Load) --

Connectivity

Up to 4 screens can be operated with the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Founders Edition.

The ASUS TUF Gaming X3 GeForce GTX 1660 TI supports the operation of a maximum of 3 monitors.

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

Featureset

With the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Founders Edition it is possible to operate a screen with a maximum resolution of up to 7680x4320 pixels.

The maximum supported resolution of the ASUS TUF Gaming X3 GeForce GTX 1660 TI 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 can have a positive impact on the lower energy consumption and less waste heat from the graphics card.

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

Dimensions

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Founders Edition is connected to the system via PCIe 4.0 x 16 lanes and requires 2 PCIe-Slots space in the housing.

The ASUS TUF Gaming X3 GeForce GTX 1660 TI needs the space of 3 PCIe-Slots in the case and has a PCIe 3.0 x 16 Lanes interface.

285 mm Length 264 mm
110 mm Height 130 mm
-- Width 55 mm
2 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 3 PCIe-Slots
1350 g Weight --
PCIe 4.0 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 3.0 x 16

Additional data

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Founders Edition has been manufactured with a structure width of 8 nanometers since Q3/2020.

The ASUS TUF Gaming X3 GeForce GTX 1660 TI came on the market in Q1/2019 and will have a structure width of 12 nanometers manufactured.

-- Part-no TUF3-GTX1660TI-6G-GAMING
Q3/2020 Release date Q1/2019
699 $ Launch Price 279 $ (Reference)
8 nm Structure size 12 nm
-- 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)

2560x1440 (1440p)

1920x1080 (1080p)

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.

3840x2160 (2160p)

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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