NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1660 Ti and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti 's Advantages
Boost Clock has increased by 6% (1770MHz vs 1665MHz)
Lower TDP (120W vs 225W)
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 8 months late
More VRAM (8GB vs 6GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (608.3GB/s vs 288.0GB/s)
3328 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 1660 Ti
5.437 TFLOPS
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
+197%
16.2 TFLOPS
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce GTX 1660 Ti
6346
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
+92%
12223
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce GTX 1660 Ti
2883
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
+106%
5941
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
GeForce GTX 1660 Ti
28
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
+78%
50
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
GeForce GTX 1660 Ti
52
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
+73%
90
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
GeForce GTX 1660 Ti
80
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
+72%
138
Battlefield 5 2160p
GeForce GTX 1660 Ti
44
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
+68%
74
Battlefield 5 1440p
GeForce GTX 1660 Ti
80
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
+63%
131
Battlefield 5 1080p
GeForce GTX 1660 Ti
103
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
+67%
173
GTA 5 2160p
GeForce GTX 1660 Ti
60
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
+10%
66
GTA 5 1440p
GeForce GTX 1660 Ti
62
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
+64%
102
GTA 5 1080p
GeForce GTX 1660 Ti
154
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
155
Graphics Card
Feb 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
1500 MHz
Base Clock
1410 MHz
1770 MHz
Boost Clock
1665 MHz
1500 MHz
Memory Clock
1188 MHz
Memory
6GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR6X
192bit
Memory Bus
256bit
288.0GB/s
Bandwidth
608.3GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
24
SM Count
38
1536
Shading Units
4864
96
TMUs
152
48
ROPs
80
-
Tensor Cores
152
-
RT Cores
38
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
1536 KB
L2 Cache
4 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
84.96 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
133.2 GPixel/s
169.9 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
253.1 GTexel/s
10.87 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
16.20 TFLOPS
5.437 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
16.20 TFLOPS
169.9 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
253.1 GFLOPS
Board Design
120W
TDP
225W
300 W
Suggested PSU
550 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 Processor
TU116
GPU Name
GA104
TU116-400-A1
GPU Variant
GA104-202-A1
Turing
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
12 nm
Process Size
8 nm
6.6 billion
Transistors
17.4 billion
284 mm²
Die Size
392 mm²
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
6.7
