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GTX 1660 vs RTX 3060

The RTX 3060 offers 12GB with Ampere Tensor Cores, a significant generational upgrade.

Overview

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The Nvidia GTX 1660 is a consumer GPU on the Turing architecture, released Q1 2019, with 6 GB GDDR5 and 192 GB/s memory bandwidth.

Budget Consumer

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The Nvidia RTX 3060 is a consumer GPU on the Ampere architecture, released Q1 2021, with 12 GB GDDR6 and 360 GB/s memory bandwidth.

Budget Consumer

Memory per GPU

2x more on RTX 3060
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6 GB GDDR5
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12 GB GDDR6

Memory bandwidth

1.9x higher on RTX 3060
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192 GB/s
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360 GB/s

GPU interconnect

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PCIe only
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PCIe only

Peak performance (FP16)

2.5x higher on RTX 3060
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10.1 TFLOPS
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25.5 TFLOPS

Vendor peak figures, dense and per GPU. Not measured throughput.

FP16 per watt

1.8x higher on RTX 3060
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0.08 TFLOPS/W
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0.15 TFLOPS/W

Board power

1.4x higher on RTX 3060
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120 W
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170 W

Precision support

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FP16 FP32
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FP16 BF16 TF32 FP32 INT4 INT8

Highlighted formats are supported by only one of the two.

Architecture

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Turing
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Ampere

Released

2 years newer on RTX 3060
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Q1 2019
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Q1 2021

Price comparison

Cheapest on-demand

1.1x higher on GTX 1660
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$0.04 / GPU / hr
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$0.04 / GPU / hr

Typical rate

Within 5%
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$0.06 / GPU / hr
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$0.06 / GPU / hr

Median across providers, one vote each, so a large catalog does not outweigh a small one.

Spot floor

1.5x higher on GTX 1660
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$0.04 / GPU / hr
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$0.03 / GPU / hr

Providers listing it

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3
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3

Heads up: A provider's own page may quote a different figure, for example on tax, region or a promotion. A monthly-only plan shows a derived hourly rate. Verify before provisioning. More on how we price.

Offers and availability

How this list works

Order

Each provider appears once per GPU. We pick the one configuration that speaks for that provider, and rank on it in this order:

  1. Availability: in stock, then waitlist, then not reported, then out of stock. A price you can act on outranks a cheaper one you cannot.
  2. Billing type: on-demand first, then reserved, then spot, then quote-only. On-demand leads because it is the only rate you can hold without committing to anything.
  3. Price: the lowest per-GPU hourly rate the provider lists, converted to USD.

The configuration we pick is chosen the same way, availability before billing before price. The rest of that provider's configurations are on the GPU's own page.

Ties sort alphabetically. Reserved rates are not separated by term length, so a three-year commitment can sit above a one-month one: the label beneath each price says which you are looking at. Providers who publish no rate are listed last within their group.

Transparency and funding

  • Ads and sponsors: Paid placements sit at the top of the list and are always labeled as sponsored content. Sponsorship never influences the organic ranking itself.
  • Affiliates: Affiliate links are marked. We may earn a commission if you click them, but commissions never affect the order.
  • Prices: Shown in USD, converted at daily reference rates where a provider publishes in another currency. A month means 720 hours. How we estimate costs.

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Our data for Nvidia GTX 1660 was last updated on Aug. 31, 2026, and for Nvidia RTX 3060 on Aug. 31, 2026.