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

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 660 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 's Advantages
Lower TDP (140W vs 170W)
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 's Advantages
Released 9 years late
Boost Clock has increased by 72% (1777MHz vs 1032MHz)
More VRAM (12GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 144.2GB/s)
2624 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 660
1.981 TFLOPS
GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 +543%
12.74 TFLOPS
VS

Graphics Card

Sep 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

980 MHz
Base Clock
1320 MHz
1032 MHz
Boost Clock
1777 MHz
1502 MHz
Memory Clock
1875 MHz

Memory

2GB
Memory Size
12GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
192bit
Memory Bus
192bit
144.2GB/s
Bandwidth
360.0GB/s

Render Config

-
-
-
-
SM Count
28
960
Shading Units
3584
80
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

20.64 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
113.7 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

GK106
GPU Name
GA104
GK106-400-A1
GPU Variant
GA104-150-KC-A1
Kepler
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
28 nm
Process Size
8 nm
2.54 billion
Transistors
17.4 billion
221 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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