NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 OEM

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB and 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 660 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 71% (1518MHz vs 888MHz)

More VRAM (3GB vs 1536GB)

Lower TDP (75W vs 130W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 OEM 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (134.4GB/s vs 84.10GB/s)

384 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB +13%

2.332 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 660 OEM

2.046 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB

VS

GeForce GTX 660 OEM

Graphics Card

May 2018

Release Date

Aug 2012

GeForce 10

Generation

GeForce 600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1392 MHz

Base Clock

823 MHz

1518 MHz

Boost Clock

888 MHz

1752 MHz

Memory Clock

1400 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

1536MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

96bit

Memory Bus

192bit

84.10GB/s

Bandwidth

134.4GB/s

Render Config

-

6

SM Count

-

768

Shading Units

1152

48

TMUs

96

24

ROPs

24

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

768 KB

L2 Cache

384 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

36.43 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

21.31 GPixel/s

72.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

85.25 GTexel/s

36.43 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

2.332 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.046 TFLOPS

72.86 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

85.25 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

130W

250 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GP107

GPU Name

GK104

GP107-301-K1-A1

GPU Variant

GK104-200-KD-A2

Pascal

Architecture

Kepler

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

3.3 billion

Transistors

3.54 billion

132 mm²

Die Size

294 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.1

6.1

CUDA

3.0

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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