GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER vs GeForce RTX 5080

[ VERDICT ] Winner: GeForce RTX 5080 (84/100)

GeForce RTX 5080 leads overall with a score of 84/100 compared to GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER (22/100), offering superior measured performance and technical specifications.

Why choose GeForce RTX 5080:
  • + Higher Efficiency score (48 vs 43)
  • + Higher Gaming score (88 vs 19)

Benchmark Performance Comparison

Normalized Lab Scores
Benchmark measurements and scores across compared devices
Benchmark GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER GeForce RTX 5080
Efficiency 43.0 Poor 48.0 Poor WINNER
Gaming 19.0 Poor 88.0 Very Good WINNER

Detailed Technical Specifications

3D Mark

3D Mark specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER GeForce RTX 5080
Fire Strike 16189 75605
Night Raid 74735 199650
Port Royal 1547 23275
Solar Bay 19265 161489
Time Spy 6042 33000
Wild Life Extreme 12334 69617

API

API specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER GeForce RTX 5080
CUDA 7.5 12.0
DLSS No DLSS 4
DirectX 12 12.2
DisplayPort 1.4a 2.1b
OpenCL 3.0 3.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
Ray Tracing No Yes
Vulkan 1.3 1.4

Games

Games specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER GeForce RTX 5080
1080p High 71 239
1080p Ultra 55 205
1440p Ultra 40 165
4K Ultra 20 96
CoD: Modern Warfare III 55443119 250244197135
Counter-Strike 2 133936829 31723817887
Cyberpunk 2077 44402211 21319213861
Far Cry 6 70624624 19417115597
Forza Horizon 5 86514325 250186179138
Ghost of Tsushima 41342612 16614212682
Hogwarts Legacy 46362613 18515212467
Margin of Error Low Low
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 77714723 306276214111
The Witcher 3 83654726 27124417290

GeekBench 6 ML

GeekBench 6 ML specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER GeForce RTX 5080
Backend DirectML DirectML
Depth Estimation (Q) 18021 69068
Face Detection (HP) 9830 92863
Framework ONNX ONNX
Image Classification (SP) 4278 15441
Image Segmentation (HP) 5856 47173
Image Super Resolution (Q) 9561 43223
Machine Translation (HP) 3286 7905
Object Detection (SP) 5151 20955
Pose Estimation (Q) 36109 202202
Style Transfer (SP) 73708 349205
Text Classification (SP) 1858 3701

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GeekBench 6 OpenCL specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER GeForce RTX 5080
API OpenCL OpenCL
Background Blur 122.5 img/sec 319.6 img/sec
Edge Detection 3.33 Gpixels/sec 19.5 Gpixels/sec
Face Detection 68.6 img/sec 225 img/sec
Feature Matching 0.86 Gpixels/sec 2.33 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 3.21 Gpixels/sec 20.4 Gpixels/sec
Horizon Detection 2.56 Gpixels/sec 13.6 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 8476.3 FPS 43676.6 FPS
Stereo Matching 273.3 Gpixels/sec 1750 Gpixels/sec

General

General specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER GeForce RTX 5080
AMD Equivalent -Radeon RX 5600 XT —
Architecture Turing Blackwell 2.0
Build Discrete Discrete
Case Desktop Desktop
GPU Codename TU116 GB203-400
Launch price (MSRP) $229 $999
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Recommended CPU -Intel Core i5 9500or above -Intel Core Ultra 7 265Kor above
Released October 29, 2019 January 7, 2025
Segment Entry-level High-end
Vendor Nvidia Nvidia

Graphics Processing Unit

Graphics Processing Unit specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER GeForce RTX 5080
Base Clock 1530 MHz 2295 MHz
Boost Clock 1785 MHz 2617 MHz
Compute Units (Pipelines) 22 84
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC
L1 Cache 64KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 1536KB shared 64MB shared
Ray-tracing Cores No 84
Render Output Units (ROPs) 48 112
Shading Units 1408 10752
Tensor Cores No 336
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 88 336

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER GeForce RTX 5080
Bus 192-bit 256-bit
ECC No No
Effective Memory Speed 14000 Mbps 30000 Mbps
Memory Clock 1750 MHz 1875 MHz
Memory Size 6 GB 16 GB
Memory Type GDDR6 GDDR7

Passmark Graphics

Passmark Graphics specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER GeForce RTX 5080
DirectX 11 104 FPS 327 FPS
DirectX 12 50 FPS 145 FPS
G2D Mark 807 1397
GPU Compute 5033 Ops/s 19034 Ops/s

Physical

Physical specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER GeForce RTX 5080
Die Size 284 mm² 378 mm²
Fabrication Process 12 nm 4 nm
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 5.0 x16
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
TGP 125 W 360 W
Transistor Count 6 billion 45.6 billion
Transistor Density 21.13 MTr/mm² 120.63 MTr/mm²

Raw Performance

Raw Performance specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER GeForce RTX 5080
Pixel Fill Rate 86 GPixel/s 293 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 157 GTexel/s 879 GTexel/s

Recent User Tests

Recent User Tests specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER GeForce RTX 5080
Date Benchmark Benchmark
📘 2026-03-02(TEST) Cinebench 2024 —
📘 2026-06-01(Nowh) — Cinebench 2024

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