NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti
VS
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti
VS
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop

General info

The main nomenclature characteristics of video cards NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop. Pay attention to the position in the performance rating to choose the best one.

105
Place in performance rating
40
51.95
Value for money (0-100)
1.1
Turing
Architecture
Ampere
TU116
Code name
GA106
Desktop
Type
Laptop
22 February 2019 (2 years ago)
Release date
04 January 2021
$279
Launch price (MSRP)
no data
$894 (3.2x MSRP)
Price now
no data
22.22
Value for money
Turing TU116
GPU code name
Desktop
Market segment

Technical specs

Choose the best graphics card between NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop based on manufacturing process, power consumption, and base frequency and overclocking potential of the GPU.

1536
Pipelines
3840
1500 MHz
Core clock speed
817 MHz
1770 MHz
Boost Clock
1282 MHz
6,600 million
Transistor count
13,250 million
12 nm
Manufacturing process technology
8 nm
120 Watt
Power consumption (TDP)
100 W
169.9
Texture fill rate
153.8 GTexel/s
no data
Floating-point performance
9.846 TFLOPS
1536
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1770 MHz
Boost clock speed
6,600 million
Number of transistors
120 Watt
Thermal design power (TDP)

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Additional technical information, does not greatly affect the performance rating when comparing the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop.

PCIe 3.0 x16
Interface
229 mm
Length
1x 8-pin
Supplementary power connectors

Memory

Graphics card memory is used to store calculations. Modern software and 3D games require more and faster memory. The higher these parameters, the more productive the chip. The difference in these characteristics NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop can be seen in this section.

GDDR6
Memory type
GDDR6
6 GB
Maximum RAM amount
6 GB
192 Bit
Memory bus width
192 bit
12000 MHz
Memory clock speed
1500 MHz 12 Gbps effective
288.0 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
288.0 GB/s
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Shared memory

Video outputs and ports

The difference between the interfaces and ports of video cards NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop, the size and number of monitors.

1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
Display Connectors
+
HDMI

Technologies

The difference between NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop is the additional functionality.

API support

The difference in supported APIs is NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop. Hardware support (API) is not considered in synthetic benchmarks and performance tests.

12 (12_1)
DirectX
4.6
OpenGL
no data
DirectX 11.2
DirectX 12.2

Gaming performance

Select form the list the required name to identify gaming performance for NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop graphics cards. The result shows how fast the game will run and whether it can be run on this computer. The different monitor resolutions – from low to 4K – are used for testing. Find out is the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti or NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop good for gaming.


low
1280x720
med.
1920x1080
high
1920x1080
ultra
1920x1080
QHD
2560x1440
4K
3840x2160
Horizon Zero Dawn (2020) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop
Death Stranding (2020) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop
F1 2020 (2020) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop
Gears Tactics (2020) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti 309 166 98 66 45 24
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop
Doom Eternal (2020) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti 278 161 142 118 81.7 41.2
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop
Legend
5 Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
May Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
30 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 25 frames per second (fps)
40 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 35 frames per second (fps)
60 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 58 frames per second (fps)
May Run Fluently – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards show a smooth frame rate, comfortable for the game.
? Uncertain – Graphics cards testing has shown that a slower card can provide a high and stable frame rate for the same operation.
Uncertain – The work of the video card in the game is still being studied. Interpolation among analogs is not possible.
The value depicts the average frame rate. Hovering over the value, you can get individual results.

Advantages of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti

There is no accountable advantage

Advantages of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop

More pipelines (3840 vs 1536)

Finer manufacturing process technology (8 nm vs 12 nm)

Less power consumption (100 W vs 120 Watt)

G-SYNC support

VR Ready

Multi Monitor

So, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti or NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop?

Judging by the results of synthetic and gaming tests, we recommend NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti .

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti versus NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop performance benchmarks comparison

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