NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Mar 2019
Jan 2021
Generation
GeForce 16
GeForce 30 Mobile
Type
Desktop
Mobile
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1530 MHz
817 MHz
Boost Clock
1785 MHz
1282 MHz
Memory Clock
2001 MHz
1500 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
6GB
6GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Bus
192bit
192bit
Bandwidth
192.1GB/s
288.0GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
22
30
Shading Units
1408
3840
TMUs
88
120
ROPs
48
48
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
1536 KB
3 MB
Tensor Cores
-
120
RT Cores
-
30
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
85.68 GPixel/s
61.54 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
157.1 GTexel/s
153.8 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
10.05 TFLOPS
9.846 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
5.027 TFLOPS
9.846 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
157.1 GFLOPS
153.8 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
TU116
GA106
GPU Variant
TU116-300-A1
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Architecture
Turing
Ampere
Foundry
TSMC
Samsung
Process Size
12 nm
8 nm
Transistors
6.6 billion
12 billion
Die Size
284 mm²
276 mm²
Board Design
TDP
120W
60W
Suggested PSU
300 W
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Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.01x DisplayPort 1.4a
No outputs
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
None
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
3.0
Vulkan
1.3
1.3
CUDA
7.5
8.6
Shader Model
6.6
6.6
📊 Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
5,444
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3DMark Time Spy Extreme
2,465
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