NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 OEM

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB and 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 660 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 66% (1470MHz vs 888MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (168.0GB/s vs 134.4GB/s)

1152 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (70W vs 130W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB +231%

6.774 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 660 OEM

2.046 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB

VS

GeForce GTX 660 OEM

Graphics Card

Feb 2024

Release Date

Aug 2012

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1042 MHz

Base Clock

823 MHz

1470 MHz

Boost Clock

888 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1400 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

1536MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

96bit

Memory Bus

192bit

168.0GB/s

Bandwidth

134.4GB/s

Render Config

18

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

2304

Shading Units

1152

72

TMUs

96

32

ROPs

24

72

Tensor Cores

-

18

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

2 MB

L2 Cache

384 KB

Theoretical Performance

47.04 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

21.31 GPixel/s

105.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

85.25 GTexel/s

6.774 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

6.774 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.046 TFLOPS

105.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

85.25 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA107

GPU Name

GK104

GA107-325-K2-A1

GPU Variant

GK104-200-KD-A2

Ampere

Architecture

Kepler

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

8.7 billion

Transistors

3.54 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

294 mm²

Board Design

70W

TDP

130W

250 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.1

8.6

CUDA

3.0

6.7

Shader Model

5.1

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