NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Ti

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Ti 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

25% slightly better overall score

1159 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

31 FPS

5 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

27 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

21 FPS

5 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

16 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

22 FPS

4 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

18 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

17 FPS

4 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

13 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

2341 points

43% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

1634 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

215.07 points

42% slightly higher Blender score

150.80 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

20616 points

82% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

11298 points

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

7834 points

17% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

6670 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

22192 points

51% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

14647 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

21230 points

45% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

14555 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

7834 points

17% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

6670 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

21530 points

40% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

15295 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

20196 points

25% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

16140 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1290 MHz

40% slightly higher core clock speed

915 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1392 MHz

42% slightly higher boost clock speed

980 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

100% significantly lower TDP

150 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

44.54 Gigapixels/s

62% significantly higher pixel rate

27.44 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

66.82 Gigatexels/s

109.8 Gigatexels/s

64% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

2.14 TFLOPS

2.63 TFLOPS

23% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

768

1344

75% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

112

133% 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

254th 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 Ti comparison

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 660 Ti in our tests.

In our comparison, 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 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.

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. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti has a significantly lower TDP at 75 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 660 Ti at 150 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti is faster than the GeForce GTX 660 Ti.