NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 24GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3090 Ti and 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1660 Ti to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 5% (1860MHz vs 1770MHz)

More VRAM (24GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1008GB/s vs 288.0GB/s)

9216 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti 's Advantages

Lower TDP (120W vs 450W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3090 Ti +635%

40 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1660 Ti

5.437 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 3090 Ti +252%

22054

GeForce GTX 1660 Ti

6261

Blender

GeForce RTX 3090 Ti +636%

6459

GeForce GTX 1660 Ti

877

OctaneBench

GeForce RTX 3090 Ti +420%

650

GeForce GTX 1660 Ti

125

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 3090 Ti +275%

105

GeForce GTX 1660 Ti

28

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 3090 Ti +221%

167

GeForce GTX 1660 Ti

52

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 3090 Ti +162%

210

GeForce GTX 1660 Ti

80

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 3090 Ti +190%

128

GeForce GTX 1660 Ti

44

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 3090 Ti +151%

201

GeForce GTX 1660 Ti

80

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 3090 Ti +94%

200

GeForce GTX 1660 Ti

103

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 3090 Ti +138%

143

GeForce GTX 1660 Ti

60

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 3090 Ti +201%

187

GeForce GTX 1660 Ti

62

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 3090 Ti +46%

226

GeForce GTX 1660 Ti

154

GeForce RTX 3090 Ti

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GeForce GTX 1660 Ti

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Feb 2019

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 16

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1560 MHz

Base Clock

1500 MHz

1860 MHz

Boost Clock

1770 MHz

1313 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

24GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR6

384bit

Memory Bus

192bit

1008GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

84

SM Count

24

-

Compute Units

-

10752

Shading Units

1536

336

TMUs

96

112

ROPs

48

336

Tensor Cores

-

84

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

6 MB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

Theoretical Performance

208.3 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

84.96 GPixel/s

625.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

169.9 GTexel/s

40.00 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

10.87 TFLOPS

40.00 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.437 TFLOPS

625.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

169.9 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA102

GPU Name

TU116

GA102-350-A1

GPU Variant

TU116-400-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Turing

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

12 nm

28.3 billion

Transistors

6.6 billion

628 mm²

Die Size

284 mm²

Board Design

450W

TDP

120W

850 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 16-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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