NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop 4 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

3755 points

43% significantly better overall score

2615 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

84 FPS

20 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

64 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

50 FPS

18 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

32 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

61 FPS

15 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

45 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

38 FPS

13 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

25 FPS

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Gaming Benchmarks

Rainbow Six Siege FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

262 FPS

108 FPS significantly higher Rainbow Six Siege FPS

154 FPS

Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

776.88 points

1161.74 points

49% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

65154 points

11% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

58544 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

60772 points

10% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

55123 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

55624 points

17% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

47251 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

64068 points

25% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

51045 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

60513 points

13% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

53105 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1530 MHz

23% slightly higher core clock speed

1238 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1785 MHz

19% slightly higher boost clock speed

1500 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

6 GiB

49% significantly more memory

4 GiB

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

75% significantly higher memory bandwidth

192 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

125 W

75 W

66% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

85.68 Gigapixels/s

153% significantly higher pixel rate

33.82 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

157.1 Gigatexels/s

132% significantly higher texture rate

67.65 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.03 TFLOPS

16% slightly better floating point performance

4.33 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1408

2048

45% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

37% 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

130th of 586

170th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 October

2021 May

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 Laptop comparison

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER graphics card is better than the GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop in our tests.

In our comparison, the GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER 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 1660 SUPER 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.

As stated by the manufacturer, the GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER has significantly more memory with 6 GiB of memory compared to 4 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER is better than the GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop.