NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 660 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 72% (1777MHz vs 1032MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

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

1600 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (130W vs 140W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB +359%

9.098 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 660

1.981 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB +378%

6254

GeForce GTX 660

1308

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

VS

GeForce GTX 660

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Sep 2012

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1552 MHz

Base Clock

980 MHz

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

1032 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1502 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

144.2GB/s

Render Config

20

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

2560

Shading Units

960

80

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

24

80

Tensor Cores

-

20

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

2 MB

L2 Cache

384 KB

Theoretical Performance

56.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

20.64 GPixel/s

142.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

82.56 GTexel/s

9.098 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

9.098 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.981 TFLOPS

142.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

82.56 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

GK106

GA106-150-KA-A1

GPU Variant

GK106-400-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Kepler

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

12 billion

Transistors

2.54 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

221 mm²

Board Design

130W

TDP

140W

300 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

1x 8-pin

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

6.6

Shader Model

5.1

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