GeForce GTX 1660 Max-Q and GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB - video card comparison

GeForce GTX 1660 Max-Q

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

Architecture

Turing (2018−2021)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

TU116

GA106

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

October 2022

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin

1x 12-pin

Boost clock speed

1335 MHz

1777 MHz

Core clock speed

1140 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

12 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

6,600 million

12,000 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

3584

Power consumption (TDP)

170 Watt

Texture fill rate

199.0

Memory type

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

8 GB

Memory bus width

128 Bit

Memory clock speed

8000 MHz

15 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

240.0 GB/s

Display Connectors

1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

HDMI

DirectX

12.0 (12_1)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

8.6

OpenCL

3.0

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

6.7

Vulkan

1.3