NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

Price

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$ 174.97

$ 109.20 significantly less expensive

$ 284.17

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

3968 points

5276 points

32% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

88 FPS

126 FPS

39 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

53 FPS

61 FPS

8 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

64 FPS

88 FPS

24 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

40 FPS

48 FPS

8 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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Gaming Benchmarks

ELDEN RING FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

60 FPS

Identical

60 FPS

Fortnite FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

85 FPS

239 FPS

154 FPS significantly higher Fortnite FPS

God of War FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

46 FPS

84 FPS

38 FPS significantly higher God of War FPS

Red Dead Redemption 2 FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

45 FPS

75 FPS

30 FPS significantly higher Red Dead Redemption 2 FPS

Grand Theft Auto V FPS

Very High settings at 1080p

136 FPS

145 FPS

9 FPS slightly higher Grand Theft Auto V FPS

Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

6332 points

8766 points

38% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

799.88 points

2317.27 points

189% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

66368 points

99213 points

49% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

61373 points

96416 points

57% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

53550 points

74845 points

39% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

65938 points

89510 points

35% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

62004 points

86221 points

39% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1500 MHz

13% slightly higher core clock speed

1320 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1770 MHz

1777 MHz

0.40% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

6 GiB

12 GiB

100% significantly more memory

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

360 GB/s

25% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

120 W

41% slightly lower TDP

170 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

84.96 Gigapixels/s

85.3 Gigapixels/s

0.40% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

169.9 Gigatexels/s

199 Gigatexels/s

17% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.44 TFLOPS

12.74 TFLOPS

134% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1536

3584

133% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

112

16% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

124th of 586

98th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 February

2021 January

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 vs GeForce RTX 3060 benchmarks

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

Our database shows that the GeForce GTX 1660 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. Despite this, the GeForce RTX 3060 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 has significantly more memory with 12 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 has a slightly lower TDP at 120 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3060 at 170 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 is faster than the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti.