Product Compare
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 GA104
| GPU | GPU | |
|---|---|---|
| Graphics Card | ||
| Release Date | Sep 2012 | Sep 2021 |
| Generation | GeForce 600 | GeForce 30 |
| Type | Desktop | Desktop |
| Bus Interface | PCIe 3.0 x16 | PCIe 4.0 x16 |
| Clock Speeds | ||
| Base Clock | 980 MHz | 1320 MHz |
| Boost Clock | 1032 MHz | 1777 MHz |
| Memory Clock | 1502 MHz | 1875 MHz |
| Memory | ||
| Memory Size | 2GB | 12GB |
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | GDDR6 |
| Memory Bus | 192bit | 192bit |
| Bandwidth | 144.2GB/s | 360.0GB/s |
| Render Config | ||
| Shading Units | 960 | 3584 |
| TMUs | 80 | 112 |
| ROPs | 24 | 48 |
| L1 Cache | 16 KB (per SMX) | 128 KB (per SM) |
| L2 Cache | 384 KB | 3 MB |
| SM Count | 28 | |
| Tensor Cores | 112 | |
| RT Cores | 28 | |
| Theoretical Performance | ||
| Pixel Rate | 20.64 GPixel/s | 85.30 GPixel/s |
| Texture Rate | 82.56 GTexel/s | 199.0 GTexel/s |
| FP32 (float) | 1.981 TFLOPS | 12.74 TFLOPS |
| FP64 (double) | 82.56 GFLOPS | 199.0 GFLOPS |
| FP16 (half) | 12.74 TFLOPS | |
| Graphics Processor | ||
| GPU Name | GK106 | GA104 |
| GPU Variant | GK106-400-A1 | GA104-150-A1 |
| Architecture | Kepler | Ampere |
| Foundry | TSMC | Samsung |
| Process Size | 28 nm | 8 nm |
| Transistors | 2.54 billion | 17.4 billion |
| Die Size | 221 mm² | 392 mm² |
| Board Design | ||
| TDP | 140W | 170W |
| Suggested PSU | 300 W | 450 W |
| Outputs | 2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2 | 1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a |
| Power Connectors | 1x 6-pin | 1x 12-pin |
| Graphics Features | ||
| DirectX | 12 (11_0) | 12 Ultimate (12_2) |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| OpenCL | 3.0 | 3.0 |
| Vulkan | 1.1 | 1.3 |
| CUDA | 3.0 | 8.6 |
| Shader Model | 5.1 | 6.6 |
| Benchmarks | ||
| 3DMark Time Spy | 1194 | 8935 |
| 3DMark Time Spy Extreme | 260 | 4231 |