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

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1660 Ti 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 Ti 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 2% (1770MHz vs 1740MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 192.0GB/s)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 11 months late

512 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (90W vs 120W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1660 Ti

5.437 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB +31%

7.127 TFLOPS

Blender

GeForce GTX 1660 Ti

877

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB +109%

1841

OctaneBench

GeForce GTX 1660 Ti

125

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB +44%

181

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GTX 1660 Ti

28

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB +7%

30

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GTX 1660 Ti

52

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB +15%

60

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GTX 1660 Ti

80

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB +6%

85

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce GTX 1660 Ti

44

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB +13%

50

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce GTX 1660 Ti +9%

80

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

73

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 1660 Ti +1%

103

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

101

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce GTX 1660 Ti +57%

60

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

38

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce GTX 1660 Ti

62

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB +19%

74

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 1660 Ti +40%

154

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

110

GeForce GTX 1660 Ti

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GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

Graphics Card

Feb 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

1500 MHz

Base Clock

1545 MHz

1770 MHz

Boost Clock

1740 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

288.0GB/s

Bandwidth

192.0GB/s

Render Config

24

SM Count

16

-

Compute Units

-

1536

Shading Units

2048

96

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

84.96 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

55.68 GPixel/s

169.9 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

111.4 GTexel/s

10.87 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

7.127 TFLOPS

5.437 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.127 TFLOPS

169.9 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

111.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

TU116

GPU Name

GA107

TU116-400-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

Board Design

120W

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 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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