NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 OEM NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 660 OEM 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 RTX 3050 8 GB 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 100% (1777MHz vs 888MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 134.4GB/s)

1408 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 660 OEM

2.046 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB +344%

9.098 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 660 OEM

VS

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

Graphics Card

Aug 2012

Release Date

Jan 2022

GeForce 600

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

823 MHz

Base Clock

1552 MHz

888 MHz

Boost Clock

1777 MHz

1400 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

134.4GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

20

-

Compute Units

-

1152

Shading Units

2560

96

TMUs

80

24

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

80

-

RT Cores

20

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

384 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

21.31 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

56.86 GPixel/s

85.25 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

142.2 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

9.098 TFLOPS

2.046 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

9.098 TFLOPS

85.25 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

142.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GK104

GPU Name

GA106

GK104-200-KD-A2

GPU Variant

GA106-150-KA-A1

Kepler

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

3.54 billion

Transistors

12 billion

294 mm²

Die Size

276 mm²

Board Design

130W

TDP

130W

300 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.1

Vulkan

1.3

3.0

CUDA

8.6

5.1

Shader Model

6.6

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