NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Rev. 2 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Rev. 2

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 660 Rev. 2 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 660 Rev. 2 's Advantages

Lower TDP (140W vs 170W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 72% (1777MHz vs 1032MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 144.2GB/s)

2624 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 660 Rev. 2

1.981 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB +543%

12.74 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 660 Rev. 2

VS

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Oct 2022

GeForce 600

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

980 MHz

Base Clock

1320 MHz

1032 MHz

Boost Clock

1777 MHz

1502 MHz

Memory Clock

1875 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

144.2GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

28

960

Shading Units

3584

80

TMUs

112

24

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

112

-

RT Cores

28

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

384 KB

L2 Cache

3 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

20.64 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

85.30 GPixel/s

82.56 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

199.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

12.74 TFLOPS

1.981 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.74 TFLOPS

82.56 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

199.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

140W

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

GA106

-

GPU Variant

GA106-302-A1

Kepler

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

3.54 billion

Transistors

12 billion

294 mm²

Die Size

276 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

6.6

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