NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050

Price

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$ 191.88

$ 38.11 slightly less expensive

$ 229.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

3755 points

8% slightly better overall score

3468 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

84 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

83 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

50 FPS

9 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

41 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

61 FPS

2 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

59 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

38 FPS

6 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

31 FPS

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Gaming Benchmarks

Forza Horizon 5 FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

78 FPS

83 FPS

5 FPS slightly higher Forza Horizon 5 FPS

God of War FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

39 FPS

42 FPS

3 FPS slightly higher God of War FPS

Red Dead Redemption 2 FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

50 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher Red Dead Redemption 2 FPS

49 FPS

Days Gone FPS

Very High settings at 1080p

68 FPS

6 FPS slightly higher Days Gone FPS

62 FPS

PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS FPS

Low settings at 1080p

124 FPS

178 FPS

54 FPS significantly higher PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS FPS

Valorant FPS

Low settings at 1080p

204 FPS

253 FPS

49 FPS slightly higher Valorant FPS

Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

6047 points

6224 points

2% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

776.88 points

1484.67 points

91% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

65154 points

72998 points

12% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

60772 points

71667 points

17% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

55624 points

56109 points

0.87% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

64068 points

0.92% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

63483 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

60513 points

62406 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1530 MHz

1552 MHz

1% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1785 MHz

0.45% slightly higher boost clock speed

1777 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

6 GiB

8 GiB

33% slightly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit

49% significantly larger memory bus width

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

336 GB/s

49% significantly higher memory bandwidth

224 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

125 W

4% slightly lower TDP

130 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

85.68 Gigapixels/s

50% significantly higher pixel rate

56.86 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

157.1 Gigatexels/s

10% slightly higher texture rate

142.2 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.03 TFLOPS

9.10 TFLOPS

80% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1408

2560

81% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

10% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

49% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

129th of 597

139th of 597

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 October

2022 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER vs GeForce RTX 3050 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER GPU is faster than the GeForce RTX 3050 in gaming.

Our database shows that the GeForce RTX 3050 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. Despite this, the GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

As stated by the manufacturer, the GeForce RTX 3050 has slightly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 6 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER has a slightly lower TDP at 125 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3050 at 130 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER over the GeForce RTX 3050.

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