NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 OEM

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 OEM

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

Released 9 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 98% (1755MHz vs 888MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 1536GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 134.4GB/s)

1152 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 OEM +295%

8.087 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 660 OEM

2.046 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 OEM

VS

GeForce GTX 660 OEM

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Aug 2012

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1515 MHz

Base Clock

823 MHz

1755 MHz

Boost Clock

888 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1400 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

1536MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

134.4GB/s

Render Config

-

18

SM Count

-

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

56.16 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

21.31 GPixel/s

126.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

85.25 GTexel/s

8.087 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

8.087 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.046 TFLOPS

126.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

85.25 GFLOPS

Board Design

130W

TDP

130W

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 Processor

GA106

GPU Name

GK104

GA106-150-KA-A1

GPU Variant

GK104-200-KD-A2

Ampere

Architecture

Kepler

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

12 billion

Transistors

3.54 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

294 mm²

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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