NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Ti

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Ti

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 660 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 8 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 81% (1777MHz vs 980MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 144.2GB/s)

2240 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Ti 's Advantages

Lower TDP (150W vs 170W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 +383%

12.74 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 660 Ti

2.634 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 3060 +438%

8760

GeForce GTX 660 Ti

1627

GeForce RTX 3060

VS

GeForce GTX 660 Ti

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

915 MHz

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

980 MHz

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

1502 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

192bit

360.0GB/s

Bandwidth

144.2GB/s

Render Config

28

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

3584

Shading Units

1344

112

TMUs

112

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

27.44 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

109.8 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.634 TFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

109.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

GK104

GA106-300-A1

GPU Variant

GK104-300-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

150W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 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

2x 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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