NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 191.88
$ 58.11 significantly less expensive
$ 249.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

3755 points
5507 points
46% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

84 FPS
135 FPS
51 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

50 FPS
66 FPS
16 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

61 FPS
94 FPS
33 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

38 FPS
52 FPS
14 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

6047 points
160% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score
2317 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

776.88 points
2880.41 points
270% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

64068 points
97092 points
51% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

60513 points
91845 points
51% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1530 MHz
2317 MHz
51% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1785 MHz
2572 MHz
44% significantly higher boost clock speed

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
5% slightly higher memory bandwidth
320 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
4% slightly higher pixel rate
82.3 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

157.1 Gigatexels/s
205.8 Gigatexels/s
30% slightly higher texture rate

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

88
10% slightly more texture mapping units
80

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

48
49% significantly more render output processors
32

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

129th of 586
91st of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 October
2025 July

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6
GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
4.6

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER vs GeForce RTX 5050 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 5050 beats the GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER in gaming performance.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce RTX 5050 is better than the GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER.

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