GeForce RTX 3060 vs GeForce GTX 660 Ti

GeForce RTX 3060
Memory: 12288Mb GDDR6DESKTOP
Release date: UNRELEASED
GeForce RTX 3060
GeForce GTX 660 Ti
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 16 Aug 2012
GeForce GTX 660 Ti

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce RTX 3060

Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports DirectX Raytracing (DXR)
Supports Deep Learning Super-Sampling (DLSS)

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 660 Ti

Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce RTX 3060

HWBench recommends GeForce RTX 3060

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce RTX 3060GeForce GTX 660 Ti
GPU NameGA106 (GA106-300-A1)vsGK104 (GK104-300-KD-A2)
Fab Process8 nmvs28 nm
Die Size300 mm²vs294 mm²
Transistors13,250 millionvs3,540 million
Shaders3840vs1344
Compute Units30vs7
Core clock1627 MHzvs915 MHz
ROPs64vs24
TMUs120vs112

Memory Configuration

GeForce RTX 3060GeForce GTX 660 Ti
Memory TypeGDDR6vsGDDR5
Bus Width192 bitvs192 bit
Memory Speed1750 MHz
14 Gbps effective
vs1502 MHz
6008 MHz effective
Memory Size12288 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce RTX 3060GeForce GTX 660 Ti
TDP180 wattsvs150 watts
Release DateUNRELEASEDvs16 Aug 2012

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce RTX 3060
    118.50 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 660 Ti
    25.60 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce RTX 3060
    222.20 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 660 Ti
    102.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce RTX 3060
    336.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 660 Ti
    144.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce RTX 3060
    14220.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 660 Ti
    2460.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better