NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Oct 2022
Feb 2019
Generation
GeForce 30
GeForce 16
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1320 MHz
1500 MHz
Boost Clock
1777 MHz
1770 MHz
Memory Clock
1875 MHz
1500 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
8GB
6GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR6
Memory Bus
128bit
192bit
Bandwidth
240.0GB/s
288.0GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
28
24
Shading Units
3584
1536
TMUs
112
96
ROPs
48
48
Tensor Cores
112
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RT Cores
28
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L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
64 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
3 MB
1536 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
85.30 GPixel/s
84.96 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
199.0 GTexel/s
169.9 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
12.74 TFLOPS
10.87 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
12.74 TFLOPS
5.437 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
199.0 GFLOPS
169.9 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GA106
TU116
GPU Variant
GA106-302-A1
TU116-400-A1
Architecture
Ampere
Turing
Foundry
Samsung
TSMC
Process Size
8 nm
12 nm
Transistors
12 billion
6.6 billion
Die Size
276 mm²
284 mm²
Board Design
TDP
170W
120W
Suggested PSU
450 W
300 W
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.01x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
1x 12-pin
1x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
3.0
Vulkan
1.3
1.3
CUDA
8.6
7.5
Shader Model
6.6
6.6
Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
—
6,346
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
—
2,883
OctaneBench
—
126
Battlefield 5 1080p
—
103
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
—
28
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
—
52
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
—
80
Battlefield 5 2160p
—
44
Blender
—
817
Battlefield 5 1440p
—
80
GTA 5 2160p
—
60
GTA 5 1440p
—
62
GTA 5 1080p
—
154
▲ Specs Compare
Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.