NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Rev. 2
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Oct 2022
Sep 2014
Generation
GeForce 30
GeForce 600
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1320 MHz
980 MHz
Boost Clock
1777 MHz
1032 MHz
Memory Clock
1875 MHz
1502 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
8GB
2GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR5
Memory Bus
128bit
192bit
Bandwidth
240.0GB/s
144.2GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
28
—
Shading Units
3584
960
TMUs
112
80
ROPs
64
24
Tensor Cores
112
—
RT Cores
28
—
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
16 KB (per SMX)
L2 Cache
3 MB
384 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
113.7 GPixel/s
20.64 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
199.0 GTexel/s
82.56 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
12.74 TFLOPS
—
FP32 (float)
12.74 TFLOPS
1.981 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
199.0 GFLOPS
82.56 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GA104
GK104
GPU Variant
GA104
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Architecture
Ampere
Kepler
Foundry
Samsung
TSMC
Process Size
8 nm
28 nm
Transistors
17.4 billion
3.54 billion
Die Size
392 mm²
294 mm²
Board Design
TDP
195W
140W
Suggested PSU
450 W
300 W
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors
1x 12-pin
1x 6-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
12 (11_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
3.0
Vulkan
1.3
1.1
CUDA
8.6
3.0
Shader Model
6.7
5.1
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.