NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 OEM

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 660 OEM and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (130W vs 170W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 100% (1777MHz vs 888MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 1536GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 134.4GB/s)

2432 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 660 OEM

2.046 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 +522%

12.74 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 660 OEM

VS

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

Graphics Card

Aug 2012

Release Date

Sep 2021

GeForce 600

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

823 MHz

Base Clock

1320 MHz

888 MHz

Boost Clock

1777 MHz

1400 MHz

Memory Clock

1875 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

192bit

134.4GB/s

Bandwidth

360.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

28

1152

Shading Units

3584

96

TMUs

112

24

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

112

-

RT Cores

28

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

384 KB

L2 Cache

3 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

21.31 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

113.7 GPixel/s

85.25 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

199.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

12.74 TFLOPS

2.046 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.74 TFLOPS

85.25 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

199.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

130W

TDP

170W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Processor

GK104

GPU Name

GA104

GK104-200-KD-A2

GPU Variant

GA104-150-KC-A1

Kepler

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

3.54 billion

Transistors

17.4 billion

294 mm²

Die Size

392 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.1

Vulkan

1.3

3.0

CUDA

8.6

5.1

Shader Model

6.7

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