NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB and 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1660 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 2 years and 10 months late

640 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (90W vs 120W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 3% (1785MHz vs 1740MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.1GB/s vs 192.0GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB +41%

7.127 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1660

5.027 TFLOPS

Blender

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB +133%

1841

GeForce GTX 1660

787

OctaneBench

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB +61%

181

GeForce GTX 1660

112

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB +25%

30

GeForce GTX 1660

24

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB +27%

60

GeForce GTX 1660

47

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB +16%

85

GeForce GTX 1660

73

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB +25%

50

GeForce GTX 1660

40

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

73

GeForce GTX 1660

73

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB +10%

101

GeForce GTX 1660

91

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

38

GeForce GTX 1660 +31%

50

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB +42%

74

GeForce GTX 1660

52

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

110

GeForce GTX 1660 +41%

156

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

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GeForce GTX 1660

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Mar 2019

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 16

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1545 MHz

Base Clock

1530 MHz

1740 MHz

Boost Clock

1785 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

2001 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

192.0GB/s

Bandwidth

192.1GB/s

Render Config

16

SM Count

22

-

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

1408

64

TMUs

88

32

ROPs

48

64

Tensor Cores

-

16

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

Theoretical Performance

55.68 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

85.68 GPixel/s

111.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

157.1 GTexel/s

7.127 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

10.05 TFLOPS

7.127 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.027 TFLOPS

111.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

157.1 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA107

GPU Name

TU116

GA107-140-A1

GPU Variant

TU116-300-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Turing

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

12 nm

8.7 billion

Transistors

6.6 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

284 mm²

Board Design

90W

TDP

120W

250 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

8.6

CUDA

7.5

6.7

Shader Model

6.6

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