NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 24 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090

Price

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$ 174.97

$ 1375.02 significantly less expensive

$ 1549.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

3968 points

13991 points

252% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

88 FPS

333 FPS

245 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

53 FPS

169 FPS

116 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

64 FPS

241 FPS

177 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

40 FPS

134 FPS

94 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

6332 points

19931 points

214% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

799.88 points

5820.93 points

627% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

66368 points

238123 points

258% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

61373 points

204921 points

233% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

53550 points

138859 points

159% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

65938 points

194465 points

194% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

62004 points

179816 points

190% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1500 MHz

7% slightly higher core clock speed

1400 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1770 MHz

4% slightly higher boost clock speed

1695 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

6 GiB

24 GiB

300% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit

384 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

288 GB/s

936.2 GB/s

225% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

120 W

191% significantly lower TDP

350 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

84.96 Gigapixels/s

189.8 Gigapixels/s

123% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

169.9 Gigatexels/s

556 Gigatexels/s

227% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.44 TFLOPS

35.58 TFLOPS

554% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1536

10496

583% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

328

241% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

112

133% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

124th of 586

25th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 February

2020 September

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

GDDR6X

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 3090 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 3090 beats the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti in gaming performance.

In our comparison, 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. 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 3090 has significantly more memory with 24 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 significantly lower TDP at 120 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3090 at 350 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce RTX 3090 is better than the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti.