NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 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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$ 201.49

$ 398.50 significantly less expensive

$ 599.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

35 %

51 %

45% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

78 FPS

123 FPS

46 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

48 FPS

60 FPS

12 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

58 FPS

86 FPS

28 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

36 FPS

47 FPS

11 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

5418

8714

60% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

722.47

2445.24

238% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

60503

99213

63% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

55712

96416

73% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

51028

74845

46% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

59400

89470

50% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

55663

84353

51% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1530 MHz

15% slightly higher core clock speed

1320 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1785 MHz

0.45% slightly higher boost clock speed

1777 MHz

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

192.1 GB/s

360 GB/s

87% significantly 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

85.68 Gigapixels/s

0.45% slightly higher pixel rate

85.3 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

157.1 Gigatexels/s

199 Gigatexels/s

26% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.03 TFLOPS

12.74 TFLOPS

153% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1408

3584

154% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

112

27% 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

73rd of 549

41st of 549

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

March 2019

January 2021

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.6

GeForce GTX 1660 vs GeForce RTX 3060 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 3060 GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 1660 in gaming.

In our comparison, the GeForce GTX 1660 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 also 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 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.

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