NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti

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

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Price

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$ 174.97
$ 1324.98 significantly less expensive
$ 1499.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

3968 points
16207 points
308% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

88 FPS
382 FPS
295 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

53 FPS
188 FPS
135 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

64 FPS
275 FPS
211 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

40 FPS
151 FPS
111 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

6332 points
21929 points
246% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

799.88 points
6069.41 points
658% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

66368 points
260346 points
292% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

61373 points
229738 points
274% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

53550 points
141134 points
163% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

65938 points
207329 points
214% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

62004 points
187369 points
202% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1500 MHz
1560 MHz
4% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1770 MHz
13% slightly higher boost clock speed
1560 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
1008 GB/s
250% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

120 W
274% significantly lower TDP
450 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

84.96 Gigapixels/s
208.3 Gigapixels/s
145% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

169.9 Gigatexels/s
625 Gigatexels/s
267% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.44 TFLOPS
40 TFLOPS
635% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1536
10752
599% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

96
336
250% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

48
112
133% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

124th of 586
16th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 February
2022 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6
GDDR6X

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
4.6

GeForce GTX 1660 Ti vs GeForce RTX 3090 Ti comparison

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

The GeForce RTX 3090 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. Despite this, the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the GeForce RTX 3090 Ti 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 Ti at 450 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

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

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