NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 and 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 3 months late

More VRAM (12GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 336.0GB/s)

2176 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 0% (1785MHz vs 1777MHz)

Lower TDP (125W vs 170W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 +153%

12.74 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

5.027 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 3060 +46%

8767

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

5982

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 3060 +69%

44

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

26

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 3060 +53%

80

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

52

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 3060 +46%

116

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

79

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 3060 +34%

55

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

41

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 3060 +29%

101

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

78

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 3060 +46%

142

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

97

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 3060

50

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER +20%

60

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 3060 +7%

82

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

76

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 3060

133

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER +33%

178

GeForce RTX 3060

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GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

Graphics Card

Jan 2021

Release Date

Oct 2019

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 16

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1320 MHz

Base Clock

1530 MHz

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

1785 MHz

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

192bit

360.0GB/s

Bandwidth

336.0GB/s

Render Config

28

SM Count

22

-

Compute Units

-

3584

Shading Units

1408

112

TMUs

88

48

ROPs

48

112

Tensor Cores

-

28

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

3 MB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

Theoretical Performance

85.30 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

85.68 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

157.1 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

10.05 TFLOPS

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.027 TFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

157.1 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

TU116

GA106-300-A1

GPU Variant

TU116-300-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Turing

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

12 nm

12 billion

Transistors

6.6 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

284 mm²

Board Design

170W

TDP

125W

450 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 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

6.6

Shader Model

6.6

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