NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Max-Q vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Max-Q 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 3 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Max-Q

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

974 points

19% slightly better overall score

816 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

21 FPS

3 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

18 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

14 FPS

3 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

11 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

15 FPS

2 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

13 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

11 FPS

2 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

9 FPS

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

226.56 points

84% significantly higher Blender score

122.56 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

18936 points

120% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

8583 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

20678 points

81% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

11381 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

18970 points

77% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

10693 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

19975 points

75% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

11353 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

18555 points

56% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

11858 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1151 MHz

17% slightly higher core clock speed

980 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1291 MHz

25% slightly higher boost clock speed

1032 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

33% slightly more memory

3 GiB

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

144.2 GB/s

28% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

75 W

86% significantly lower TDP

140 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

41.31 Gigapixels/s

100% significantly higher pixel rate

20.64 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

61.97 Gigatexels/s

82.56 Gigatexels/s

33% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

1.98 TFLOPS

0.10% slightly better floating point performance

1.98 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

768

960

25% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

66% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

33% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

264th of 586

276th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

11.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

4.5

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Max-Q vs GeForce GTX 660 comparison

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GTX 660 beats the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Max-Q in gaming performance.

The GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Max-Q has a slightly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. In addition, the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Max-Q also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

As stated by the manufacturer, the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Max-Q has slightly more memory with 4 GiB of memory compared to 3 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Max-Q has a significantly lower TDP at 75 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 660 at 140 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 660 over the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Max-Q.