NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1660 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X 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 7% (1785MHz vs 1665MHz)

Lower TDP (120W vs 225W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 7 months late

More VRAM (8GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (608.3GB/s vs 192.1GB/s)

3456 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1660

5.027 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X +222%

16.2 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 1660

5414

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X +126%

12239

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GTX 1660

24

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X +108%

50

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GTX 1660

47

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X +91%

90

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GTX 1660

73

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X +89%

138

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce GTX 1660

40

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X +85%

74

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce GTX 1660

73

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X +79%

131

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 1660

91

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X +90%

173

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce GTX 1660

50

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X +32%

66

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce GTX 1660

52

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X +96%

102

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 1660

156

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X

155

GeForce GTX 1660

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GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X

Graphics Card

Mar 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

1530 MHz

Base Clock

1410 MHz

1785 MHz

Boost Clock

1665 MHz

2001 MHz

Memory Clock

1188 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6X

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

192.1GB/s

Bandwidth

608.3GB/s

Render Config

22

SM Count

38

-

Compute Units

-

1408

Shading Units

4864

88

TMUs

152

48

ROPs

80

-

Tensor Cores

152

-

RT Cores

38

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

85.68 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

133.2 GPixel/s

157.1 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

253.1 GTexel/s

10.05 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

16.20 TFLOPS

5.027 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

16.20 TFLOPS

157.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

253.1 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

TU116

GPU Name

GA104

TU116-300-A1

GPU Variant

GA104-202-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

Board Design

120W

TDP

225W

300 W

Suggested PSU

550 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 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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