NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER 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 1660 SUPER 's Advantages

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

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)

Lower TDP (125W vs 170W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB 's Advantages

Released 3 years late

More VRAM (8GB vs 6GB)

2176 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

5.027 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB +153%

12.74 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

5979

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB +23%

7392

Blender

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

822

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB +215%

2596

OctaneBench

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

126

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB +123%

282

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

26

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB +73%

45

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

52

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB +63%

85

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

79

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB +67%

132

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

41

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB +29%

53

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

78

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB +25%

98

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

97

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB +44%

140

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

60

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB +36%

82

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

76

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB +7%

82

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER +15%

178

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

154

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

VS

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

Graphics Card

Oct 2019

Release Date

Oct 2022

GeForce 16

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1530 MHz

Base Clock

1320 MHz

1785 MHz

Boost Clock

1777 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1875 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

336.0GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

22

SM Count

28

-

Compute Units

-

1408

Shading Units

3584

88

TMUs

112

48

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

112

-

RT Cores

28

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

3 MB

Theoretical Performance

85.68 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

85.30 GPixel/s

157.1 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

199.0 GTexel/s

10.05 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

12.74 TFLOPS

5.027 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.74 TFLOPS

157.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

199.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

TU116

GPU Name

GA106

TU116-300-A1

GPU Variant

GA106-302-A1

Turing

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

12 nm

Process Size

8 nm

6.6 billion

Transistors

12 billion

284 mm²

Die Size

276 mm²

Board Design

125W

TDP

170W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

7.5

CUDA

8.6

6.6

Shader Model

6.6

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