GeForce GTX 660M and GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 660M
GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104
Architecture
Kepler (2012−2018)
Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code name
N13E-GE
GA104
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
March 2012
September 2021
Bus support
PCI Express 2.0, PCI Express 3.0
-
Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
-
1x 12-pin
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
950 MHz
1777 MHz
Core clock speed
835 MHz
-
CUDA cores
384
-
Floating-point performance
729.6 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
8 nm
Number of transistors
1,270 million
17,400 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
384
3584
Power consumption (TDP)
50 Watt
170 Watt
Texture fill rate
30.4 billion/sec
199.0
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
12 GB
Memory bus width
128bit
192 Bit
Memory clock speed
2000 MHz
15 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
64.0 GB/s
360.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI
+
+
HDCP
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
Up to 2048x1536
-
DirectX
12 API
12 Ultimate (12_2)
CUDA
+
8.6
OpenCL
1.1
3.0
OpenGL
4.5
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
6.6
Vulkan
1.1.126
1.3
Optimus
+
-