NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max-Q vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti (Laptop)

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max-Q and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti (Laptop) videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max-Q

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 8 month(s) later
  • 2.5x more pipelines: 3840 vs 1536
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 8 nm vs 12 nm
  • Around 31% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 13407 vs 10210
  • Around 21% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 589 vs 488
  • Around 26% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 21278 vs 16828
  • Around 26% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 21278 vs 16828
  • Around 48% better performance in 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score: 8249 vs 5573
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 12 Jan 2021 vs 23 April 2019
Pipelines 3840 vs 1536
Manufacturing process technology 8 nm vs 12 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 13407 vs 10210
PassMark - G2D Mark 589 vs 488
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 21278 vs 16828
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 21278 vs 16828
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 8249 vs 5573

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti (Laptop)

  • Around 78% higher core clock speed: 1455 MHz vs 817 MHz
  • Around 24% higher boost clock speed: 1590 MHz vs 1282 MHz
  • 8x more memory clock speed: 12000 MHz vs 1500 MHz, 12 Gbps effective
  • Around 70% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 15109 vs 8913
  • Around 70% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 15109 vs 8913
Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed 1455 MHz vs 817 MHz
Boost clock speed 1590 MHz vs 1282 MHz
Memory clock speed 12000 MHz vs 1500 MHz, 12 Gbps effective
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 15109 vs 8913
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 15109 vs 8913

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max-Q
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti (Laptop)

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
13407
10210
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
589
488
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
21278
16828
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
8913
15109
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
8054
8054
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
21278
16828
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
8913
15109
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
8054
8054
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score
GPU 1
GPU 2
8249
5573
Name NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max-Q NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti (Laptop)
PassMark - G3D Mark 13407 10210
PassMark - G2D Mark 589 488
Geekbench - OpenCL 78906
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 339.841
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 3898.264
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 27.109
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 155.642
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 1167.569
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 21278 16828
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 8913 15109
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 8054 8054
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 21278 16828
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 8913 15109
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 8054 8054
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 8249 5573

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max-Q NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti (Laptop)

Essentials

Architecture Ampere Turing
Code name GA106 N18E-G0
Launch date 12 Jan 2021 23 April 2019
Place in performance rating 130 117
Type Laptop Laptop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1282 MHz 1590 MHz
Core clock speed 817 MHz 1455 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 8 nm 12 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 153.8 GFLOPS (1:64)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 9.846 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 9.846 TFLOPS
Pipelines 3840 1536
Pixel fill rate 61.54 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 153.8 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 60 Watt
Transistor count 12000 million 6600 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors Portable Device Dependent No outputs
DisplayPort support
G-SYNC support
HDMI

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 4.0 x16
Laptop size large medium sized
Supplementary power connectors None

API support

DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2) 12.1
OpenCL 3.0
OpenGL 4.6
Shader Model 6.7
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 6 GB 6144 MB
Memory bandwidth 288.0 GB/s
Memory bus width 192 bit 192 bit
Memory clock speed 1500 MHz, 12 Gbps effective 12000 MHz
Memory type GDDR6 GDDR6

Technologies

GPU Boost
VR Ready