NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Rev. 2

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Rev. 2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 660 Rev. 2 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 9 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 42% (1470MHz vs 1032MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (168.0GB/s vs 144.2GB/s)

1344 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (70W vs 140W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB +241%

6.774 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 660 Rev. 2

1.981 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB

VS

GeForce GTX 660 Rev. 2

Graphics Card

Feb 2024

Release Date

Sep 2014

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1042 MHz

Base Clock

980 MHz

1470 MHz

Boost Clock

1032 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1502 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

96bit

Memory Bus

192bit

168.0GB/s

Bandwidth

144.2GB/s

Render Config

18

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

2304

Shading Units

960

72

TMUs

80

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

20.64 GPixel/s

105.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

82.56 GTexel/s

6.774 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

6.774 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.981 TFLOPS

105.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

82.56 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA107

GPU Name

GK104

GA107-325-K2-A1

GPU Variant

-

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

140W

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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