NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Rev. 2

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Rev. 2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Ti and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 660 Rev. 2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 3 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

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Rev. 2 's Advantages

Lower TDP (140W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti +717%

16.2 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 660 Rev. 2

1.981 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti

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GeForce GTX 660 Rev. 2

Graphics Card

Dec 2020

Release Date

Sep 2014

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1410 MHz

Base Clock

980 MHz

1665 MHz

Boost Clock

1032 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1502 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

448.0GB/s

Bandwidth

144.2GB/s

Render Config

38

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

4864

Shading Units

960

152

TMUs

80

ROPs

24

152

Tensor Cores

-

38

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

4 MB

L2 Cache

384 KB

Theoretical Performance

133.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

20.64 GPixel/s

253.1 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

82.56 GTexel/s

16.20 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

16.20 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.981 TFLOPS

253.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

82.56 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

GK104

GA104-200-A1

GPU Variant

-

Ampere

Architecture

Kepler

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

3.54 billion

392 mm²

Die Size

294 mm²

Board Design

200W

TDP

140W

550 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.1

8.6

CUDA

3.0

6.6

Shader Model

5.1

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