NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Max-Q vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Max-Q 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop 6 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

3236 points
4534 points
40% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

73 FPS
112 FPS
39 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

46 FPS
57 FPS
11 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

54 FPS
78 FPS
25 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

34 FPS
44 FPS
10 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

756.05 points
2352.59 points
211% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

61528 points
98709 points
60% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

54310 points
92420 points
70% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

48658 points
71210 points
46% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

56770 points
84300 points
48% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

54216 points
82804 points
52% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1140 MHz
26% slightly higher core clock speed
900 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1335 MHz
1703 MHz
27% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

6 GiB
0.49% slightly more memory
5.97 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit
Identical
192 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

288 GB/s
336 GB/s
16% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

60 W
33% slightly lower TDP
80 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

64.08 Gigapixels/s
68.4 Gigapixels/s
6% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

128.2 Gigatexels/s
171 Gigatexels/s
33% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

4.10 TFLOPS
10.94 TFLOPS
166% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1536
3840
150% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

96
120
25% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

48
Identical
48

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

145th of 586
111th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 April
2021 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6
GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
4.6

GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Max-Q vs GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Max-Q in gaming.

Our database shows that the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Max-Q has a slightly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. Despite this, the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop has a slightly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

As stated by the manufacturer, the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Max-Q has slightly more memory with 6 GiB of memory compared to 5.97 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop is faster than the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Max-Q.

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