NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1660 Ti and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 8 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

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 224.0GB/s)

Lower TDP (120W vs 130W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 0% (1777MHz vs 1770MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 6GB)

1024 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1660 Ti

5.437 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB +67%

9.098 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 1660 Ti

6271

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

6261

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GTX 1660 Ti +40%

28

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

20

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GTX 1660 Ti +23%

52

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

42

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GTX 1660 Ti

80

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB +2%

82

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce GTX 1660 Ti +51%

44

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

29

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce GTX 1660 Ti +23%

80

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

65

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 1660 Ti +25%

103

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

82

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce GTX 1660 Ti +93%

60

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

31

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce GTX 1660 Ti +55%

62

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

40

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 1660 Ti +40%

154

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

110

GeForce GTX 1660 Ti

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GeForce RTX 3050 8 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

1552 MHz

1770 MHz

Boost Clock

1777 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

288.0GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

-

24

SM Count

20

1536

Shading Units

2560

96

TMUs

80

48

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

80

-

RT Cores

20

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

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Theoretical Performance

84.96 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

56.86 GPixel/s

169.9 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

142.2 GTexel/s

10.87 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

9.098 TFLOPS

5.437 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

9.098 TFLOPS

169.9 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

142.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

130W

300 W

Suggested PSU

300 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 8-pin

Graphics Processor

TU116

GPU Name

GA106

TU116-400-A1

GPU Variant

GA106-150-KA-A1

Turing

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

12 nm

Process Size

8 nm

6.6 billion

Transistors

12 billion

284 mm²

Die Size

276 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

6.6

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