NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 GA104

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 GA104

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1660 and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 0% (1785MHz vs 1777MHz)

Lower TDP (120W vs 170W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 6 months late

More VRAM (12GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 192.1GB/s)

2176 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1660

5.027 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 +153%

12.74 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 1660

5415

GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 +66%

9002

GeForce GTX 1660

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GeForce RTX 3060 GA104

Graphics Card

Mar 2019

Release Date

Sep 2021

GeForce 16

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1530 MHz

Base Clock

1320 MHz

1785 MHz

Boost Clock

1777 MHz

2001 MHz

Memory Clock

1875 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

192bit

192.1GB/s

Bandwidth

360.0GB/s

Render Config

-

22

SM Count

28

1408

Shading Units

3584

88

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

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Theoretical Performance

85.68 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

85.30 GPixel/s

157.1 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

199.0 GTexel/s

10.05 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

12.74 TFLOPS

5.027 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.74 TFLOPS

157.1 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

GA104

TU116-300-A1

GPU Variant

GA104-150-A1

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

6.6

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