NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GA103 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GA103

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GA103 and 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1660 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GA103 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 11 months late

More VRAM (8GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 192.1GB/s)

3456 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 7% (1785MHz vs 1665MHz)

Lower TDP (120W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GA103 +222%

16.2 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1660

5.027 TFLOPS

Blender

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GA103 +363%

3249

GeForce GTX 1660

701

OctaneBench

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GA103 +225%

365

GeForce GTX 1660

112

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GA103

VS

GeForce GTX 1660

Graphics Card

Feb 2022

Release Date

Mar 2019

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 16

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1410 MHz

Base Clock

1530 MHz

1665 MHz

Boost Clock

1785 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

2001 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

448.0GB/s

Bandwidth

192.1GB/s

Render Config

-

38

SM Count

22

4864

Shading Units

1408

152

TMUs

88

80

ROPs

48

152

Tensor Cores

-

38

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

4 MB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

133.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

85.68 GPixel/s

253.1 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

157.1 GTexel/s

16.20 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

10.05 TFLOPS

16.20 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.027 TFLOPS

253.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

157.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

200W

TDP

120W

550 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GA103S

GPU Name

TU116

GA103-200-A1

GPU Variant

TU116-300-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Turing

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

12 nm

Unknown

Transistors

6.6 billion

496 mm²

Die Size

284 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

8.6

CUDA

7.5

6.5

Shader Model

6.6

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