NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM

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

Released 9 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 70% (1755MHz vs 1032MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 144.2GB/s)

1344 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (130W vs 140W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 660

1.981 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 OEM +308%

8.087 TFLOPS

Blender

GeForce GTX 660

111

GeForce RTX 3050 OEM +1191%

1434

OctaneBench

GeForce GTX 660

27

GeForce RTX 3050 OEM +562%

179

GeForce GTX 660

VS

GeForce RTX 3050 OEM

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

1515 MHz

1032 MHz

Boost Clock

1755 MHz

1502 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

144.2GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

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SM Count

18

960

Shading Units

2304

80

TMUs

72

24

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

72

-

RT Cores

18

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

384 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

20.64 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

56.16 GPixel/s

82.56 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

126.4 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

8.087 TFLOPS

1.981 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

8.087 TFLOPS

82.56 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

126.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

140W

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 Processor

GK106

GPU Name

GA106

GK106-400-A1

GPU Variant

GA106-150-KA-A1

Kepler

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

2.54 billion

Transistors

12 billion

221 mm²

Die Size

276 mm²

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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