NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 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 3060 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 0% (1777MHz vs 1770MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 288.0GB/s)

2048 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti 's Advantages

Lower TDP (120W vs 170W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 +134%

12.74 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1660 Ti

5.437 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 3060 +39%

8760

GeForce GTX 1660 Ti

6261

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 3060 +57%

44

GeForce GTX 1660 Ti

28

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 3060 +53%

80

GeForce GTX 1660 Ti

52

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 3060 +45%

116

GeForce GTX 1660 Ti

80

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 3060 +25%

55

GeForce GTX 1660 Ti

44

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 3060 +26%

101

GeForce GTX 1660 Ti

80

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 3060 +37%

142

GeForce GTX 1660 Ti

103

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 3060

50

GeForce GTX 1660 Ti +20%

60

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 3060 +32%

82

GeForce GTX 1660 Ti

62

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 3060

133

GeForce GTX 1660 Ti +15%

154

GeForce RTX 3060

VS

GeForce GTX 1660 Ti

Graphics Card

Jan 2021

Release Date

Feb 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

1500 MHz

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

1770 MHz

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

192bit

360.0GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

28

SM Count

24

-

Compute Units

-

3584

Shading Units

1536

112

TMUs

96

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

84.96 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

169.9 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

10.87 TFLOPS

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.437 TFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

169.9 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

TU116

GA106-300-A1

GPU Variant

TU116-400-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

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 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

Related GPU Comparisons

1

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050

2

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs NVIDIA T1000 8 GB

3

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080

4

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

5

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER

6

NVIDIA Tesla T4 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

7

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

8

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs AMD Radeon HD 6570 OEM

9

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104

10

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6