NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 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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$ 467.00

$ 377.50 significantly less expensive

$ 844.50

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

35 %

66 %

88% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

79 FPS

161 FPS

82 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

48 FPS

80 FPS

31 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

58 FPS

116 FPS

58 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

37 FPS

62 FPS

26 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

5418

11624

114% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

722.47

3064.96

324% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

60503

128321

112% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

55712

120183

115% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

51028

95490

87% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

59527

112103

88% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

56354

104641

85% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1530 MHz

8% slightly higher core clock speed

1410 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1785 MHz

7% 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

192.1 GB/s

448 GB/s

133% 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

85.68 Gigapixels/s

133.2 Gigapixels/s

55% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

157.1 Gigatexels/s

253.1 Gigatexels/s

61% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.03 TFLOPS

16.20 TFLOPS

222% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1408

4864

245% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

152

72% 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

66th of 360

29th of 360

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

March 2019

December 2020

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 Ti comparison

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 1660 in our tests.

The GeForce GTX 1660 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 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

As stated by the manufacturer, 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 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.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti is faster than the GeForce GTX 1660.