GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X vs GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X and 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X 's Advantages
Released 3 years late
More VRAM (8GB vs 6GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (608.3GB/s vs 336.0GB/s)
3456 additional rendering cores
GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER 's Advantages
Boost Clock has increased by 7% (1785MHz vs 1665MHz)
Lower TDP (125W vs 225W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
+222%
16200
GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER
5027
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
+102%
12223
GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER
6048
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
+112%
5941
GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER
2792
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
+92%
50
GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER
26
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
+73%
90
GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER
52
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
+74%
138
GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER
79
Battlefield 5 2160p
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
+80%
74
GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER
41
Battlefield 5 1440p
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
+67%
131
GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER
78
Battlefield 5 1080p
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
+78%
173
GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER
97
GTA 5 2160p
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
+10%
66
GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER
60
GTA 5 1440p
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
+34%
102
GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER
76
GTA 5 1080p
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
155
GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER
+14%
178
Graphics Card
Oct 2022
Release Date
Oct 2019
GeForce 30
Generation
GeForce 16
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1410 MHz
Base Clock
1530 MHz
1665 MHz
Boost Clock
1785 MHz
1188 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
6GB
GDDR6X
Memory Type
GDDR6
256bit
Memory Bus
192bit
608.3GB/s
Bandwidth
336.0GB/s
Render Config
38
SM Count
22
4864
Shading Units
1408
152
TMUs
88
80
ROPs
48
152
Tensor Cores
-
38
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
4 MB
L2 Cache
1536 KB
Theoretical Performance
133.2 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
85.68 GPixel/s
253.1 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
157.1 GTexel/s
16.20 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
10.05 TFLOPS
16.20 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
5.027 TFLOPS
253.1 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
157.1 GFLOPS
Board Design
225W
TDP
125W
550 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
1x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 12-pin
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GA104
GPU Name
TU116
GA104-202-A1
GPU Variant
TU116-300-A1
Ampere
Architecture
Turing
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
8 nm
Process Size
12 nm
17.4 billion
Transistors
6.6 billion
392 mm²
Die Size
284 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
8.6
CUDA
7.5
6.7
Shader Model
6.6
