NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 2 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M 2 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

419% significantly better overall score

223 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

26 FPS

21 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

5 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

18 FPS

15 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

3 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

18 FPS

14 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

3 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

14 FPS

12 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

2 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

17206 points

493% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

2901 points

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

7823 points

275% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

2083 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

18573 points

408% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

3649 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

17953 points

409% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

3524 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

7823 points

251% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

2223 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

17967 points

350% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

3991 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

17163 points

387% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

3524 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1354 MHz

42% slightly higher core clock speed

950 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1455 MHz

53% significantly higher boost clock speed

950 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

2 GiB

Identical

2 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit

Identical

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

112.1 GB/s

75% significantly higher memory bandwidth

64 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

75 W

50 W

49% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

46.56 Gigapixels/s

512% significantly higher pixel rate

7.6 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

58.2 Gigatexels/s

91% significantly higher texture rate

30.4 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

640

66% significantly more shading units

384

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

25% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

254th of 586

411th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 October

2012 March

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

11.2

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

GeForce GTX 1050 vs GeForce GTX 660M comparison

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

In our comparison, the GeForce GTX 1050 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 also has a significantly 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 they both have the same amount of memory at 2 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 660M has a significantly lower TDP at 50 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1050 at 75 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 is faster than the GeForce GTX 660M.