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