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

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Max-Q 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 A Laptop, 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 A Laptop

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

3236 points

2% slightly better overall score

3152 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

73 FPS

75 FPS

2 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

46 FPS

10 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

36 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

54 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

34 FPS

5 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

29 FPS

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

756.05 points

1508.43 points

99% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

56770 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

54544 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

54216 points

57342 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1140 MHz

7% slightly higher core clock speed

1065 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1335 MHz

1343 MHz

0.60% slightly 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

288 GB/s

49% significantly higher memory bandwidth

192 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

60 W

45 W

33% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

64.08 Gigapixels/s

49% significantly higher pixel rate

42.98 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

128.2 Gigatexels/s

70% significantly higher texture rate

75.21 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1536

1792

16% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

71% significantly 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

145th of 586

151st of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 April

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 A Laptop specs and performance

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Max-Q graphics card is better than the GeForce RTX 3050 A Laptop in our tests.

The GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Max-Q 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 RTX 3050 A Laptop 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 3050 A Laptop has a slightly lower TDP at 45 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Max-Q at 60 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Max-Q is better than the GeForce RTX 3050 A Laptop.