NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1660 Ti and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 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 195W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 '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 GA104 +134%

12.74 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1660 Ti

VS

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104

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

64

-

Tensor Cores

112

-

RT Cores

28

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

3 MB

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Theoretical Performance

84.96 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

113.7 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

195W

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

GA104

TU116-400-A1

GPU Variant

GA104

Turing

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

12 nm

Process Size

8 nm

6.6 billion

Transistors

17.4 billion

284 mm²

Die Size

392 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

6.7

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