NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 660 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 RTX 3050 4 GB 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 69% (1740MHz vs 1032MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 144.2GB/s)

1088 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (90W vs 140W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 660

1.981 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB +259%

7.127 TFLOPS

Blender

GeForce GTX 660

124

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB +1384%

1841

OctaneBench

GeForce GTX 660

27

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB +570%

181

GeForce GTX 660

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GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

Graphics Card

Sep 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

980 MHz

Base Clock

1545 MHz

1032 MHz

Boost Clock

1740 MHz

1502 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

144.2GB/s

Bandwidth

192.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

16

-

Compute Units

-

960

Shading Units

2048

80

TMUs

64

24

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

64

-

RT Cores

16

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

384 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

20.64 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

55.68 GPixel/s

82.56 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

111.4 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

7.127 TFLOPS

1.981 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.127 TFLOPS

82.56 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

111.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GK106

GPU Name

GA107

GK106-400-A1

GPU Variant

GA107-140-A1

Kepler

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

2.54 billion

Transistors

8.7 billion

221 mm²

Die Size

200 mm²

Board Design

140W

TDP

90W

300 W

Suggested PSU

250 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 6-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

6.7

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