NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1660 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 2% (1785MHz vs 1755MHz)

Lower TDP (120W vs 130W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 10 months late

More VRAM (8GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 192.1GB/s)

896 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1660

5.027 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 OEM +60%

8.087 TFLOPS

Blender

GeForce GTX 1660

787

GeForce RTX 3050 OEM +98%

1566

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GTX 1660 +20%

24

GeForce RTX 3050 OEM

20

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GTX 1660

47

GeForce RTX 3050 OEM +6%

50

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GTX 1660 +4%

73

GeForce RTX 3050 OEM

70

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce GTX 1660 +37%

40

GeForce RTX 3050 OEM

29

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce GTX 1660 +12%

73

GeForce RTX 3050 OEM

65

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 1660 +10%

91

GeForce RTX 3050 OEM

82

GeForce GTX 1660

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GeForce RTX 3050 OEM

Graphics Card

Mar 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

1515 MHz

1785 MHz

Boost Clock

1755 MHz

2001 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

192.1GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

22

SM Count

18

-

Compute Units

-

1408

Shading Units

2304

88

TMUs

72

48

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

72

-

RT Cores

18

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

85.68 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

56.16 GPixel/s

157.1 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

126.4 GTexel/s

10.05 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

8.087 TFLOPS

5.027 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

8.087 TFLOPS

157.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

126.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

TU116

GPU Name

GA106

TU116-300-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

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 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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