NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 2 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

1159 points

42% slightly better overall score

816 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

26 FPS

8 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

18 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

18 FPS

7 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

11 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

18 FPS

5 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

13 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

14 FPS

5 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

9 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

2076 points

57% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

1317 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

170.58 points

39% slightly higher Blender score

122.56 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

17206 points

100% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

8583 points

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

7823 points

43% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

5449 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

18573 points

63% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

11381 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

17953 points

67% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

10693 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

7823 points

81% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

4311 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

17967 points

58% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

11353 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

17163 points

44% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

11858 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1354 MHz

38% slightly higher core clock speed

980 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1455 MHz

40% slightly higher boost clock speed

1032 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

2 GiB

3 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

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

46.56 Gigapixels/s

125% significantly higher pixel rate

20.64 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

58.2 Gigatexels/s

82.56 Gigatexels/s

41% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

1.86 TFLOPS

1.98 TFLOPS

6% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

640

960

49% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

100% 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

254th 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 vs GeForce GTX 660 comparison

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

Our database shows that the GeForce GTX 1050 has a slightly 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 1050 also has a slightly 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 660 has significantly more memory with 3 GiB of memory compared to 2 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 1050 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 terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce GTX 1050 is better than the GeForce GTX 660.