Colorful GeForce RTX 3060 NB 12G EX L-V
vs
GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1660 TI MINI ITX OC 6G


GPU comparison with benchmarks

In the gpu comparison between the Colorful GeForce RTX 3060 NB 12G EX L-V and the GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1660 TI MINI ITX OC 6G, we compare both the technical data and the benchmark results of the two graphics cards.

GPU

The Colorful GeForce RTX 3060 NB 12G EX L-V is based on the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 LHR and has 3584 texture shaders and 28 execution units.

GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1660 TI MINI ITX OC 6G is based on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti, which has 1536 shaders and 24 execution units.
Colorful GeForce RTX 3060 NB 12G EX L-V GPU GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1660 TI MINI ITX OC 6G
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 LHR Based on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti
GA106-302-A1 GPU Chip TU116-400-A1
Ampere Architecture Turing
28 Streaming Multiprocessors 24
3584 Shader 1536
48 Render Output Units 48
112 Texture Units 96
28 Raytracing Cores 0

Memory

The Colorful GeForce RTX 3060 NB 12G EX L-V has 12 GB of graphics memory of the type GDDR6 and achieves a memory bandwidth of 360 GB/s.

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1660 TI MINI ITX OC 6G can access 6 GB GDDR6 graphics memory and thus achieves a memory bandwidth of 288 GB/s.

12 GB Memory Size 6 GB
GDDR6 Memory Type GDDR6
1.875 GHz Memory Clock 1.500 GHz
15.0 Gbps Memory Speed 12.0 Gbps
360 GB/s Memory bandwidth 288 GB/s
192 bit Memory Interface 192 bit

Clock Speeds

The Colorful GeForce RTX 3060 NB 12G EX L-V clocks in the base with up to 1.320 GHz. The base frequency of the GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1660 TI MINI ITX OC 6G is 1.500 GHz.

1.320 GHz Base Clock 1.500 GHz
1.777 GHz Boost Clock 1.785 GHz
Avg (Game) Clock 1.77 GHz
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The TDP (Thermal Design Power) of the Colorful GeForce RTX 3060 NB 12G EX L-V is 170 W. The graphics card is supplied with energy via the 1 x 8-Pin connector.

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1660 TI MINI ITX OC 6G has a TDP of 120 W and is supplied with the required energy via 1 x 8-Pin PCIe power connectors.

170 W TDP 120 W
-- TDP (up) --
93 °C Tjunction max 95 °C
1 x 8-Pin PCIe-Power 1 x 8-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The Colorful GeForce RTX 3060 NB 12G EX L-V has a total of 3 Axial fans.

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1660 TI MINI ITX OC 6G has 1 Axial fans to cool the GPU and memory.

Axial Fan-Type Axial
3 x 90 mm Fan 1 1 x 90 mm
-- Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
0 dB Noise (Idle) dB
-- Noise (Load) --

Connectivity

In the connectivity category, we recorded the number of ports on a graphics card. A total of 4 screens can be connected to the Colorful GeForce RTX 3060 NB 12G EX L-V.

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1660 TI MINI ITX OC 6G supports a maximum of 3 screens.

4 Max. Displays 3
2.3 HDCP-Version 2.2
1x HDMI v2.1 HDMI Ports 1x HDMI v2.0b
3x DP v1.4a DP Ports 3x DP v1.4
-- DVI Ports --
-- VGA Ports --
-- USB-C Ports --

Featureset

The Colorful GeForce RTX 3060 NB 12G EX L-V supports a maximum resolution of 7680x4320 pixels.

The maximum resolution of the GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1660 TI MINI ITX OC 6G is 7680x4320 pixels.

7680x4320 Max. resolution 7680x4320
12_2 (Ultimate) DirectX 12_1
Yes Raytracing No
Yes DLSS / FSR Yes
No LED lighting LED No LED lighting

Supported Video Codecs

The support and acceleration of certain video codecs directly in the graphics card reduces the load when playing or creating videos.

Decode / Encode h264 Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode h265 / HEVC Decode / Encode
Decode AV1 No
Decode VP8 Decode
Decode VP9 Decode

Dimensions

The Colorful GeForce RTX 3060 NB 12G EX L-V is 317 mm long, 135 mm high and 53 mm wide.

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1660 TI MINI ITX OC 6G is 170 mm long, 121 mm high and 36 mm wide.

317 mm Length 170 mm
135 mm Height 121 mm
53 mm Width 36 mm
3 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 2 PCIe-Slots
1040 g Weight --
PCIe 4.0 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 3.0 x 16

Additional data

The Colorful GeForce RTX 3060 NB 12G EX L-V was released in Q4/2021 at a price of 329 $ (Reference).

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1660 TI MINI ITX OC 6G was introduced in Q1/2019 at a price of 279 $ (Reference).

-- Part-no GV-N166TIXOC-6GD
Q4/2021 Release date Q1/2019
329 $ (Reference) Launch Price 279 $ (Reference)
8 nm Structure size 12 nm
data sheet Documents data sheet

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Benchmark results

3DMark Benchmark (DirectX, Raytracing)

3DMark is a benchmark program that determines the performance of certain components of a computer and then reports the performance as a numerical value.

Time Spy Extreme Graphics score

Port Royal (Raytracing)

Speed Way Graphics Score (Raytracing)

Cyberpunk 2077

Cyberpunk 2077 was developed by CD Projekt Red and is based on the development studio's own REDengine 4. Ray tracing is switched off in our benchmarks.

3840x2160 (2160p)

2560x1440 (1440p)

1920x1080 (1080p)

The Last of Us Part 1

The Last of Us Part One is a game released by Sony in June 2013 exclusively for the Playstation and released for the PC in early 2023. The benchmark values here were determined at high details.

3840x2160 (2160p)

2560x1440 (1440p)

1920x1080 (1080p)

Battlefield 5

Battlefield 5 is a visually stunning game that is ideal as a graphics card benchmark. We test the game with maximum details on Windows 10.

3840x2160 (2160p)

2560x1440 (1440p)

1920x1080 (1080p)

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL, Vulkan, Metal)

Geekbench 6 is a cross-platform benchmark for main processors, which also carries out 3 different graphics benchmarks and outputs them in the form of a numerical value.

Geekbench 6 - OpenCL

Geekbench 6 - Vulkan

FP32 Performance (Single-precision TFLOPS)

The theoretical computing power of the graphics card with single precision (32 bit) in TFLOPS indicates how many trillion FP32 floating point operations the graphics card (GPU) can perform per second.

FP32 (TFLOPS)

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