NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1660 Ti and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)

Lower TDP (120W vs 170W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 0% (1777MHz vs 1770MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 6GB)

2048 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1660 Ti

5.437 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB +134%

12.74 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 1660 Ti

6271

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB +18%

7428

Blender

GeForce GTX 1660 Ti

817

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB +205%

2499

OctaneBench

GeForce GTX 1660 Ti

126

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB +123%

282

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GTX 1660 Ti

28

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB +60%

45

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GTX 1660 Ti

52

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB +63%

85

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GTX 1660 Ti

80

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB +65%

132

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce GTX 1660 Ti

44

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB +20%

53

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce GTX 1660 Ti

80

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB +22%

98

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 1660 Ti

103

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB +35%

140

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce GTX 1660 Ti

60

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB +26%

76

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce GTX 1660 Ti

62

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB +32%

82

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 1660 Ti

154

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

154

GeForce GTX 1660 Ti

VS

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

Graphics Card

Feb 2019

Release Date

Oct 2022

GeForce 16

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1500 MHz

Base Clock

1320 MHz

1770 MHz

Boost Clock

1777 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1875 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

288.0GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

-

24

SM Count

28

1536

Shading Units

3584

96

TMUs

112

48

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

112

-

RT Cores

28

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

3 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

84.96 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

85.30 GPixel/s

169.9 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

199.0 GTexel/s

10.87 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

12.74 TFLOPS

5.437 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.74 TFLOPS

169.9 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

199.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

170W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Processor

TU116

GPU Name

GA106

TU116-400-A1

GPU Variant

GA106-302-A1

Turing

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

12 nm

Process Size

8 nm

6.6 billion

Transistors

12 billion

284 mm²

Die Size

276 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

7.5

CUDA

8.6

6.6

Shader Model

6.6

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