NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 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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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1456 points

78% significantly better overall score

816 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

31 FPS

13 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

18 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

21 FPS

10 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

11 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

22 FPS

9 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

13 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

17 FPS

8 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

9 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

2341 points

77% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

1317 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

215.07 points

75% significantly higher Blender score

122.56 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

20616 points

140% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

8583 points

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

7834 points

43% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

5449 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

22192 points

94% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

11381 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

21230 points

98% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

10693 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

7834 points

81% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

4311 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

21530 points

89% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

11353 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

20196 points

70% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

11858 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1290 MHz

31% slightly higher core clock speed

980 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1392 MHz

34% 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

44.54 Gigapixels/s

115% significantly higher pixel rate

20.64 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

66.82 Gigatexels/s

82.56 Gigatexels/s

23% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

2.14 TFLOPS

7% 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

237th of 586

276th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 October

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

4.5

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti vs GeForce GTX 660 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 660 in gaming.

Our database shows that the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 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 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti has slightly more memory with 4 GiB of memory compared to 3 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti has a significantly lower TDP at 75 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 660 at 140 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti over the GeForce GTX 660.