NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti 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 RTX 3060 Ti

Price

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$ 174.97

$ 191.62 significantly less expensive

$ 366.59

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

3968 points

6815 points

71% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

88 FPS

167 FPS

79 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

53 FPS

80 FPS

27 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

64 FPS

118 FPS

54 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

40 FPS

63 FPS

23 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Gaming Benchmarks

ELDEN RING FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

60 FPS

3 FPS slightly higher ELDEN RING FPS

57 FPS

Fortnite FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

85 FPS

126 FPS

41 FPS significantly higher Fortnite FPS

God of War FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

46 FPS

95 FPS

49 FPS significantly higher God of War FPS

Red Dead Redemption 2 FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

45 FPS

76 FPS

31 FPS significantly higher Red Dead Redemption 2 FPS

Grand Theft Auto V FPS

Very High settings at 1080p

136 FPS

3 FPS slightly higher Grand Theft Auto V FPS

133 FPS

Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

6332 points

11700 points

84% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

799.88 points

3000.82 points

275% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

66368 points

128321 points

93% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

61373 points

120183 points

95% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

53550 points

95490 points

78% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

65938 points

112303 points

70% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

62004 points

115945 points

86% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1500 MHz

6% slightly higher core clock speed

1410 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1770 MHz

6% slightly higher boost clock speed

1665 MHz

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

120 W

66% significantly lower TDP

200 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

84.96 Gigapixels/s

133.2 Gigapixels/s

56% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

169.9 Gigatexels/s

253.1 Gigatexels/s

48% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.44 TFLOPS

16.20 TFLOPS

197% 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

124th of 586

71st of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 February

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 vs GeForce RTX 3060 Ti comparison

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

In our comparison, the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti 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. In addition, the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti also 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.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti has slightly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 6 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti has a significantly lower TDP at 120 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti at 200 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

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