NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 660 and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1050 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (144.2GB/s vs 112.1GB/s)

320 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 41% (1455MHz vs 1032MHz)

Lower TDP (75W vs 140W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 660 +6%

1.981 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1050

1.862 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 660

1308

GeForce GTX 1050 +36%

1789

GeForce GTX 660

VS

GeForce GTX 1050

Graphics Card

Sep 2012

Release Date

Oct 2016

GeForce 600

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

980 MHz

Base Clock

1354 MHz

1032 MHz

Boost Clock

1455 MHz

1502 MHz

Memory Clock

1752 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

144.2GB/s

Bandwidth

112.1GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

5

960

Shading Units

640

80

TMUs

40

24

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

384 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

20.64 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

46.56 GPixel/s

82.56 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

58.20 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

29.10 GFLOPS

1.981 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.862 TFLOPS

82.56 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

58.20 GFLOPS

Board Design

140W

TDP

75W

300 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GK106

GPU Name

GP107

GK106-400-A1

GPU Variant

GP107-300-A1

Kepler

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

2.54 billion

Transistors

3.3 billion

221 mm²

Die Size

132 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.1

Vulkan

1.3

3.0

CUDA

6.1

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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