NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Ti

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 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

5276 points

355% significantly better overall score

1159 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

126 FPS

100 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

27 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

61 FPS

45 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

16 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

88 FPS

70 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

18 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

48 FPS

35 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

13 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

8766 points

436% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

1634 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

2317.27 points

1436% significantly higher Blender score

150.80 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

99213 points

778% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

11298 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

96416 points

558% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

14647 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

74845 points

414% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

14555 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

89510 points

485% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

15295 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

86221 points

434% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

16140 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1320 MHz

44% significantly higher core clock speed

915 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1777 MHz

81% significantly higher boost clock speed

980 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

12 GiB

300% 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

360 GB/s

149% significantly higher memory bandwidth

144.2 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

170 W

150 W

13% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

85.3 Gigapixels/s

210% significantly higher pixel rate

27.44 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

199 Gigatexels/s

81% significantly higher texture rate

109.8 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

12.74 TFLOPS

383% significantly better floating point performance

2.63 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

3584

166% significantly more shading units

1344

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

112

Identical

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

98th 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 vs GeForce GTX 660 Ti comparison

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 3060 beats the GeForce GTX 660 Ti in gaming performance.

Our database shows that the GeForce RTX 3060 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 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.

As stated by the manufacturer, the GeForce RTX 3060 has significantly more memory with 12 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 Ti has a slightly lower TDP at 150 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3060 at 170 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

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