NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 OEM 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 OEM 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 10 months late

More VRAM (8GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 192.1GB/s)

896 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 2% (1785MHz vs 1755MHz)

Lower TDP (120W vs 130W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 OEM +60%

8.087 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1660

5.027 TFLOPS

Blender

GeForce RTX 3050 OEM +98%

1566

GeForce GTX 1660

787

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 3050 OEM

20

GeForce GTX 1660 +20%

24

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 3050 OEM +6%

50

GeForce GTX 1660

47

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 3050 OEM

70

GeForce GTX 1660 +4%

73

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 3050 OEM

29

GeForce GTX 1660 +37%

40

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 3050 OEM

65

GeForce GTX 1660 +12%

73

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 3050 OEM

82

GeForce GTX 1660 +10%

91

GeForce RTX 3050 OEM

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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

1515 MHz

Base Clock

1530 MHz

1755 MHz

Boost Clock

1785 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

2001 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

192.1GB/s

Render Config

18

SM Count

22

-

Compute Units

-

2304

Shading Units

1408

72

TMUs

88

32

ROPs

48

72

Tensor Cores

-

18

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

Theoretical Performance

56.16 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

85.68 GPixel/s

126.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

157.1 GTexel/s

8.087 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

10.05 TFLOPS

8.087 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.027 TFLOPS

126.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

157.1 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

TU116

GA106-150-KA-A1

GPU Variant

TU116-300-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Turing

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

12 nm

12 billion

Transistors

6.6 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

284 mm²

Board Design

130W

TDP

120W

300 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 8-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

6.6

Shader Model

6.6

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