NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti 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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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

3968 points

4534 points

14% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

88 FPS

112 FPS

24 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

53 FPS

57 FPS

4 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

64 FPS

78 FPS

14 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

40 FPS

44 FPS

4 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

799.88 points

2352.59 points

194% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

66368 points

98709 points

48% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

61373 points

92420 points

50% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

53550 points

71210 points

32% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

65938 points

84300 points

27% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

62004 points

82804 points

33% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1500 MHz

66% significantly higher core clock speed

900 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1770 MHz

3% slightly higher boost clock speed

1703 MHz

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

120 W

80 W

49% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

84.96 Gigapixels/s

24% slightly higher pixel rate

68.4 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

169.9 Gigatexels/s

171 Gigatexels/s

0.65% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.44 TFLOPS

10.94 TFLOPS

101% 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

120

25% 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

111th 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 Laptop benchmarks

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

The GeForce GTX 1660 Ti has a significantly 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 GTX 1660 Ti also has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti has slightly more memory with 6 GiB of memory compared to 5.97 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop is better than the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti.