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

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Max-Q 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti 8 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Max-Q

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

3236 points

6815 points

110% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

73 FPS

167 FPS

94 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

46 FPS

80 FPS

34 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

54 FPS

118 FPS

64 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

34 FPS

63 FPS

29 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

4964 points

11700 points

135% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

756.05 points

3000.82 points

296% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

61528 points

128321 points

108% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

54310 points

120183 points

121% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

48658 points

95490 points

96% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

56770 points

112303 points

97% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

54216 points

115945 points

113% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1140 MHz

1410 MHz

23% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1335 MHz

1665 MHz

24% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

6 GiB

8 GiB

33% slightly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit

256 Bit

33% slightly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

288 GB/s

448 GB/s

55% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

60 W

233% significantly lower TDP

200 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

64.08 Gigapixels/s

133.2 Gigapixels/s

107% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

128.2 Gigatexels/s

253.1 Gigatexels/s

97% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

4.10 TFLOPS

16.20 TFLOPS

295% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1536

4864

216% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

152

58% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

66% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

145th of 586

71st of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 April

2020 December

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Max-Q vs GeForce RTX 3060 Ti benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti beats the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Max-Q in gaming performance.

Our database shows that the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti has a slightly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. In addition, the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti also has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

As stated by the manufacturer, the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti has slightly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 6 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Max-Q has a significantly lower TDP at 60 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti at 200 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

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