NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, 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).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 7 month(s) later
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 8 nm vs 12 nm
  • 2.6x better performance in 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score: 2795 vs 1061
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 19 Oct 2022 vs 22 February 2019
Manufacturing process technology 8 nm vs 12 nm
Benchmarks
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 2795 vs 1061

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti

  • Around 6% higher core clock speed: 1500 MHz vs 1410 MHz
  • Around 6% higher boost clock speed: 1770 MHz vs 1665 MHz
  • Around 88% lower typical power consumption: 120 Watt vs 225 Watt
  • 10.1x more memory clock speed: 12000 MHz vs 1188 MHz, 19 Gbps effective
Core clock speed 1500 MHz vs 1410 MHz
Boost clock speed 1770 MHz vs 1665 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 120 Watt vs 225 Watt
Memory clock speed 12000 MHz vs 1188 MHz, 19 Gbps effective

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti

3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score
GPU 1
GPU 2
2795
1061
Name NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 2795 1061
PassMark - G3D Mark 12900
PassMark - G2D Mark 807
Geekbench - OpenCL 61100
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 208.608
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 2573.643
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 16.447
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 145.886
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 926.614
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 16952
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3718
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3355
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 16952
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3718
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3355

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti

Essentials

Architecture Ampere Turing
Code name GA104 TU116
Launch date 19 Oct 2022 22 February 2019
Place in performance rating 460 221
Launch price (MSRP) $279
Price now $279.99
Type Desktop
Value for money (0-100) 67.32

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1665 MHz 1770 MHz
Core clock speed 1410 MHz 1500 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 8 nm 12 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 253.1 GFLOPS (1:64)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 16.20 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 16.20 TFLOPS
Pipelines 4864
Pixel fill rate 133.2 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 253.1 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 225 Watt 120 Watt
Transistor count 17400 million 6,600 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
DisplayPort count 1
DisplayPort support
HDMI

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Form factor Dual-slot
Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Length 242 mm, 9.5 inches 229 mm
Recommended system power (PSU) 550 Watt
Supplementary power connectors 1x 12-pin 1x 8-pin
Width 112 mm, 4.4 inches

API support

DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2) 12.0
OpenCL 3.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
Shader Model 6.7
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 8 GB
Memory bandwidth 608.3 GB/s
Memory bus width 256 bit
Memory clock speed 1188 MHz, 19 Gbps effective 12000 MHz
Memory type GDDR6X