NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GA103

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GA103

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 660 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GA103 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 200W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GA103 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 61% (1665MHz vs 1032MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 144.2GB/s)

3904 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 660

1.981 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GA103 +717%

16.2 TFLOPS

Blender

GeForce GTX 660

111

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GA103 +2827%

3249

OctaneBench

GeForce GTX 660

27

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GA103 +1251%

365

GeForce GTX 660

VS

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GA103

Graphics Card

Sep 2012

Release Date

Feb 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

1410 MHz

1032 MHz

Boost Clock

1665 MHz

1502 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

144.2GB/s

Bandwidth

448.0GB/s

Render Config

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SM Count

38

960

Shading Units

4864

80

TMUs

152

24

ROPs

80

-

Tensor Cores

152

-

RT Cores

38

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

384 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

20.64 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

133.2 GPixel/s

82.56 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

253.1 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

16.20 TFLOPS

1.981 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

16.20 TFLOPS

82.56 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

253.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

140W

TDP

200W

300 W

Suggested PSU

550 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

GA103S

GK106-400-A1

GPU Variant

GA103-200-A1

Kepler

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

2.54 billion

Transistors

Unknown

221 mm²

Die Size

496 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

6.5

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