NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Ti

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Ti 3 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Ti

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

4534 points

291% significantly better overall score

1159 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

112 FPS

85 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

27 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

57 FPS

41 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

16 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

78 FPS

60 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

18 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

44 FPS

31 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

13 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

2352.59 points

1460% significantly higher Blender score

150.80 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

98709 points

773% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

11298 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

92420 points

530% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

14647 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

71210 points

389% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

14555 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

84300 points

451% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

15295 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

82804 points

413% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

16140 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

900 MHz

915 MHz

1% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1703 MHz

73% significantly higher boost clock speed

980 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

5.97 GiB

99% significantly more memory

3 GiB

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

336 GB/s

133% significantly higher memory bandwidth

144.2 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

80 W

87% significantly lower TDP

150 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

68.4 Gigapixels/s

149% significantly higher pixel rate

27.44 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

171 Gigatexels/s

55% significantly higher texture rate

109.8 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

10.94 TFLOPS

315% significantly better floating point performance

2.63 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

3840

185% significantly more shading units

1344

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

120

7% slightly more texture mapping units

112

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

111th of 586

254th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

11.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

4.5

GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop vs GeForce GTX 660 Ti specs and performance

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 660 Ti in our tests.

Our database shows that the GeForce GTX 660 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. Despite this, the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop has a significantly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop has significantly more memory with 5.97 GiB of memory compared to 3 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 RTX 3060 Laptop has a significantly lower TDP at 80 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 660 Ti at 150 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 conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop over the GeForce GTX 660 Ti.