NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti (Laptop)

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile 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: GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile

  • 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 22% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 20611 vs 16828
  • Around 22% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 20611 vs 16828
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 12 Jan 2021 vs 23 April 2019
Pipelines 3840 vs 1536
Manufacturing process technology 8 nm vs 12 nm
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 20611 vs 16828
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 20611 vs 16828

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

  • Around 62% higher core clock speed: 1455 MHz vs 900 MHz
  • Around 12% higher boost clock speed: 1590 MHz vs 1425 MHz
  • 6.9x more memory clock speed: 12000 MHz vs 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective
  • Around 2% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 8054 vs 7929
  • Around 2% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 8054 vs 7929
  • Around 69% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 15109 vs 8917
  • Around 69% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 15109 vs 8917
Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed 1455 MHz vs 900 MHz
Boost clock speed 1590 MHz vs 1425 MHz
Memory clock speed 12000 MHz vs 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 8054 vs 7929
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 8054 vs 7929
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 15109 vs 8917
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 15109 vs 8917

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti (Laptop)

GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
20611
16828
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
20611
16828
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
7929
8054
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
7929
8054
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
8917
15109
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
8917
15109
Name NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti (Laptop)
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 20611 16828
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 20611 16828
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 7929 8054
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 7929 8054
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 8917 15109
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 8917 15109
PassMark - G2D Mark 483
PassMark - G3D Mark 10187
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 5582

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile 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 123 124
Type Laptop Laptop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1425 MHz 1590 MHz
Core clock speed 900 MHz 1455 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 8 nm 12 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 171.0 GFLOPS (1:64)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 10.94 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 10.94 TFLOPS
Pipelines 3840 1536
Pixel fill rate 68.40 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 171.0 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 80 Watt
Transistor count 12000 million 6600 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors Portable Device Dependent No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

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

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 336.0 GB/s
Memory bus width 192 bit 192 bit
Memory clock speed 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective 12000 MHz
Memory type GDDR6 GDDR6

Technologies

GPU Boost
VR Ready