NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

GPU Specs Compare

Graphics Card

Release Date
Sep 2021
Oct 2019
Generation
GeForce 30
GeForce 16
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

Base Clock
1320 MHz
1530 MHz
Boost Clock
1777 MHz
1785 MHz
Memory Clock
1875 MHz
1750 MHz

Memory

Memory Size
12GB
6GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR6
Memory Bus
192bit
192bit
Bandwidth
360.0GB/s
336.0GB/s

Render Config

SM Count
28
22
Shading Units
3584
1408
TMUs
112
88
ROPs
64
48
Tensor Cores
112
-
RT Cores
28
-
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
64 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
3 MB
1536 KB

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate
113.7 GPixel/s
85.68 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
199.0 GTexel/s
157.1 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
12.74 TFLOPS
10.05 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
12.74 TFLOPS
5.027 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
199.0 GFLOPS
157.1 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GPU Name
GA104
TU116
GPU Variant
GA104-150-KC-A1
TU116-300-A1
Architecture
Ampere
Turing
Foundry
Samsung
TSMC
Process Size
8 nm
12 nm
Transistors
17.4 billion
6.6 billion
Die Size
392 mm²
284 mm²

Board Design

TDP
170W
125W
Suggested PSU
450 W
300 W
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.01x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
1x 12-pin
1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
3.0
Vulkan
1.3
1.3
CUDA
8.6
7.5
Shader Model
6.7
6.6

📊 Benchmark

3DMark Time Spy
-
6,048
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
-
2,792
Battlefield 5 1080p
-
97
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
-
26
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
-
52
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
-
79
Battlefield 5 2160p
-
41
Battlefield 5 1440p
-
78
GTA 5 2160p
-
60
GTA 5 1440p
-
76
GTA 5 1080p
-
178