NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 3 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

6815 points

735% significantly better overall score

816 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

167 FPS

149 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

18 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

80 FPS

69 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

11 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

118 FPS

105 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

13 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

63 FPS

54 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

9 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

11700 points

788% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

1317 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

3000.82 points

2348% significantly higher Blender score

122.56 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

128321 points

1395% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

8583 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

120183 points

955% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

11381 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

95490 points

793% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

10693 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

112303 points

889% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

11353 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

115945 points

877% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

11858 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1410 MHz

43% significantly higher core clock speed

980 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1665 MHz

61% significantly higher boost clock speed

1032 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

166% significantly more memory

3 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

33% slightly larger memory bus width

192 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

448 GB/s

210% significantly higher memory bandwidth

144.2 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

200 W

140 W

42% much lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

133.2 Gigapixels/s

545% significantly higher pixel rate

20.64 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

253.1 Gigatexels/s

206% significantly higher texture rate

82.56 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

16.20 TFLOPS

717% significantly better floating point performance

1.98 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

4864

406% significantly more shading units

960

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

152

89% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

233% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

71st of 586

277th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 December

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 Ti vs GeForce GTX 660 comparison

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

In our comparison, the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti has a significantly 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 RTX 3060 Ti also has a significantly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti has significantly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 3 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 660 has a much lower TDP at 140 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti at 200 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti is faster than the GeForce GTX 660.