NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Max-Q vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Max-Q 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 GTX 1660 Ti Max-Q

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

3236 points

3468 points

7% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

73 FPS

82 FPS

9 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

46 FPS

5 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

41 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

54 FPS

59 FPS

5 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

34 FPS

2 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

31 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

4964 points

6224 points

25% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

756.05 points

1484.67 points

96% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

61528 points

72998 points

18% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

54310 points

71667 points

31% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

48658 points

56109 points

15% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

56770 points

63483 points

11% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

54216 points

62406 points

15% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1140 MHz

1552 MHz

36% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1335 MHz

1777 MHz

33% slightly higher boost clock speed

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

288 GB/s

28% slightly higher memory bandwidth

224 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

60 W

116% significantly lower TDP

130 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

64.08 Gigapixels/s

12% slightly higher pixel rate

56.86 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

128.2 Gigatexels/s

142.2 Gigatexels/s

10% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

4.10 TFLOPS

9.10 TFLOPS

121% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1536

2560

66% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

20% 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

144th of 586

139th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 April

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 Ti Max-Q vs GeForce RTX 3050 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 3050 beats the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Max-Q in gaming performance.

The GeForce RTX 3050 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 RTX 3050 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, 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 Ti Max-Q has a significantly lower TDP at 60 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.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce RTX 3050 is faster than the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Max-Q.