NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 OEM

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 and 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 660 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 100% (1777MHz vs 888MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 134.4GB/s)

2432 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (130W vs 170W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 +522%

12.74 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 660 OEM

2.046 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060

VS

GeForce GTX 660 OEM

Graphics Card

Jan 2021

Release Date

Aug 2012

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1320 MHz

Base Clock

823 MHz

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

888 MHz

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

1400 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

1536MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

192bit

360.0GB/s

Bandwidth

134.4GB/s

Render Config

28

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

3584

Shading Units

1152

112

TMUs

96

48

ROPs

24

112

Tensor Cores

-

28

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

3 MB

L2 Cache

384 KB

Theoretical Performance

85.30 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

21.31 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

85.25 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.046 TFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

85.25 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

GK104

GA106-300-A1

GPU Variant

GK104-200-KD-A2

Ampere

Architecture

Kepler

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

12 billion

Transistors

3.54 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

294 mm²

Board Design

170W

TDP

130W

450 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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