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

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Ti

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 660 Ti 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 50% (1470MHz vs 980MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

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

960 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (70W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB +157%

6.774 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 660 Ti

2.634 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB +196%

4832

GeForce GTX 660 Ti

1627

GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB

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GeForce GTX 660 Ti

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

915 MHz

1470 MHz

Boost Clock

980 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

1344

72

TMUs

112

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

27.44 GPixel/s

105.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

109.8 GTexel/s

6.774 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

6.774 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.634 TFLOPS

105.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

109.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA107

GPU Name

GK104

GA107-325-K2-A1

GPU Variant

GK104-300-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

150W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

2x 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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