NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Ti

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti 8 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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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

6815 points

488% significantly better overall score

1159 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

167 FPS

140 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

27 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

80 FPS

64 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

16 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

118 FPS

100 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

18 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

63 FPS

51 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

13 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

11700 points

616% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

1634 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

3000.82 points

1889% significantly higher Blender score

150.80 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

128321 points

1035% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

11298 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

120183 points

720% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

14647 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

95490 points

556% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

14555 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

112303 points

634% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

15295 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

115945 points

618% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

16140 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1410 MHz

54% significantly higher core clock speed

915 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1665 MHz

69% significantly higher boost clock speed

980 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

150 W

33% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

133.2 Gigapixels/s

385% significantly higher pixel rate

27.44 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

253.1 Gigatexels/s

130% significantly higher texture rate

109.8 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

16.20 TFLOPS

515% significantly better floating point performance

2.63 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

4864

261% significantly more shading units

1344

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

152

35% slightly more texture mapping units

112

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

253rd 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 Ti specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 660 Ti in gaming.

In our comparison, the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti has a significantly 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 RTX 3060 Ti also has a significantly 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 Ti has significantly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 3 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 660 Ti has a slightly lower TDP at 150 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti at 200 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti is better than the GeForce GTX 660 Ti.