NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER and 4GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 3% (1785MHz vs 1740MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 192.0GB/s)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 3 months late

640 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (90W vs 125W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

5.027 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB +41%

7.127 TFLOPS

Blender

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

880

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB +73%

1528

OctaneBench

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

127

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB +37%

175

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

26

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB +15%

30

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

52

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB +15%

60

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

79

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB +7%

85

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

41

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB +21%

50

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER +6%

78

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

73

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

97

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB +4%

101

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER +57%

60

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

38

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER +2%

76

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

74

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER +61%

178

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

110

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

VS

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

Graphics Card

Oct 2019

Release Date

Jan 2022

GeForce 16

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1530 MHz

Base Clock

1545 MHz

1785 MHz

Boost Clock

1740 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

336.0GB/s

Bandwidth

192.0GB/s

Render Config

-

22

SM Count

16

1408

Shading Units

2048

88

TMUs

64

48

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

64

-

RT Cores

16

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

85.68 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

55.68 GPixel/s

157.1 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

111.4 GTexel/s

10.05 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

7.127 TFLOPS

5.027 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.127 TFLOPS

157.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

111.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

125W

TDP

90W

300 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

TU116

GPU Name

GA107

TU116-300-A1

GPU Variant

GA107-140-A1

Turing

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

12 nm

Process Size

8 nm

6.6 billion

Transistors

8.7 billion

284 mm²

Die Size

200 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

7.5

CUDA

8.6

6.6

Shader Model

6.7

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