NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop, 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 4050 Laptop

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

3755 points

4302 points

14% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

84 FPS

104 FPS

20 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

50 FPS

53 FPS

3 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

61 FPS

76 FPS

15 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

38 FPS

41 FPS

4 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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Gaming Benchmarks

Far Cry 6 FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

63 FPS

75 FPS

12 FPS slightly higher Far Cry 6 FPS

Forza Horizon 5 FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

78 FPS

6 FPS slightly higher Forza Horizon 5 FPS

72 FPS

God of War FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

39 FPS

49 FPS

10 FPS slightly higher God of War FPS

Rainbow Six Siege FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

262 FPS

67 FPS significantly higher Rainbow Six Siege FPS

195 FPS

Red Dead Redemption 2 FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

50 FPS

51 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher Red Dead Redemption 2 FPS

Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

776.88 points

2581.07 points

232% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

64068 points

75551 points

17% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

60513 points

75827 points

25% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1530 MHz

5% slightly higher core clock speed

1455 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1785 MHz

1% slightly higher boost clock speed

1755 MHz

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

96 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

50 W

150% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

85.68 Gigapixels/s

52% significantly higher pixel rate

56.16 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

157.1 Gigatexels/s

11% slightly higher texture rate

140.4 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.03 TFLOPS

8.99 TFLOPS

78% 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 586

118th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 October

2023 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 4050 Laptop benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop beats the GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER in gaming performance.

In our comparison, the GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER 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 1660 SUPER also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop has a significantly lower TDP at 50 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER at 125 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop over the GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER.