GeForce RTX 3060 vs GeForce GTX 1660
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 and 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1660 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce RTX 3060 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 10 months late
More VRAM (12GB vs 6GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 192.1GB/s)
2176 additional rendering cores
GeForce GTX 1660 's Advantages
Boost Clock has increased by 0% (1785MHz vs 1777MHz)
Lower TDP (120W vs 170W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 3060
+153%
12740
GeForce GTX 1660
5027
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce RTX 3060
+60%
8747
GeForce GTX 1660
5444
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce RTX 3060
+66%
4097
GeForce GTX 1660
2465
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
GeForce RTX 3060
+83%
44
GeForce GTX 1660
24
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
GeForce RTX 3060
+70%
80
GeForce GTX 1660
47
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
GeForce RTX 3060
+58%
116
GeForce GTX 1660
73
Battlefield 5 2160p
GeForce RTX 3060
+37%
55
GeForce GTX 1660
40
Battlefield 5 1440p
GeForce RTX 3060
+38%
101
GeForce GTX 1660
73
Battlefield 5 1080p
GeForce RTX 3060
+56%
142
GeForce GTX 1660
91
GTA 5 2160p
GeForce RTX 3060
50
GeForce GTX 1660
50
GTA 5 1440p
GeForce RTX 3060
+57%
82
GeForce GTX 1660
52
GTA 5 1080p
GeForce RTX 3060
133
GeForce GTX 1660
+17%
156
Graphics Card
Jan 2021
Release Date
Mar 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
2001 MHz
Memory
12GB
Memory Size
6GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR5
192bit
Memory Bus
192bit
360.0GB/s
Bandwidth
192.1GB/s
Render Config
28
SM Count
22
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
Board Design
170W
TDP
120W
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 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
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
