NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER 6 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1057 points

3755 points

255% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

24 FPS

84 FPS

60 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

16 FPS

50 FPS

34 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

16 FPS

61 FPS

45 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

12 FPS

38 FPS

26 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

2108 points

6047 points

186% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

169.72 points

776.88 points

357% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

15058 points

65154 points

332% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

17020 points

60772 points

257% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

16857 points

55624 points

229% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

16153 points

64068 points

296% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

17923 points

60513 points

237% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

999 MHz

1530 MHz

53% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1139 MHz

1785 MHz

56% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

6 GiB

49% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit

192 Bit

49% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

112.1 GB/s

336 GB/s

199% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

75 W

66% significantly lower TDP

125 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

18.22 Gigapixels/s

85.68 Gigapixels/s

370% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

45.56 Gigatexels/s

157.1 Gigatexels/s

244% significantly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

640

1408

120% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

120% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

200% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

260th of 586

130th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 January

2019 October

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q vs GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q in gaming.

Our database shows that the GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER has a significantly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. In addition, the GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER also has a significantly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER has significantly more memory with 6 GiB of memory compared to 4 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q has a significantly lower TDP at 75 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER at 125 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER over the GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q.