NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Ti

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 2 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

1159 points

Identical

1159 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

26 FPS

27 FPS

0 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

18 FPS

2 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

16 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

18 FPS

Identical

18 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

14 FPS

2 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

13 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

2076 points

27% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

1634 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

170.58 points

13% slightly higher Blender score

150.80 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

17206 points

52% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

11298 points

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

7823 points

17% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

6670 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

18573 points

26% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

14647 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

17953 points

23% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

14555 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

7823 points

17% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

6670 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

17967 points

17% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

15295 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

17163 points

6% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

16140 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1354 MHz

47% significantly higher core clock speed

915 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1455 MHz

48% significantly higher boost clock speed

980 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

100% significantly lower TDP

150 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

46.56 Gigapixels/s

69% significantly higher pixel rate

27.44 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

58.2 Gigatexels/s

109.8 Gigatexels/s

88% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

1.86 TFLOPS

2.63 TFLOPS

41% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

640

1344

110% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

112

180% 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

253rd 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 Ti specs and performance

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

The GeForce GTX 1050 has a significantly 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 also has a significantly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the GeForce GTX 660 Ti has significantly more memory with 3 GiB of memory compared to 2 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 has a significantly lower TDP at 75 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 660 Ti at 150 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

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