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

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

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

3236 points

23% slightly better overall score

2624 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

73 FPS

9 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

64 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

46 FPS

14 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

32 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

54 FPS

8 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

45 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

34 FPS

9 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

25 FPS

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

756.05 points

1161.74 points

53% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

61528 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

58544 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

54310 points

55123 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

48658 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

47251 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

56770 points

11% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

51045 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

54216 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

53105 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1140 MHz

1238 MHz

8% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1335 MHz

1500 MHz

12% slightly higher boost clock speed

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

288 GB/s

49% significantly higher memory bandwidth

192 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

60 W

25% slightly lower TDP

75 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

64.08 Gigapixels/s

89% significantly higher pixel rate

33.82 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

128.2 Gigatexels/s

89% significantly higher texture rate

67.65 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

4.10 TFLOPS

4.33 TFLOPS

5% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1536

2048

33% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

49% 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 597

172nd of 597

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 April

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 Ti Max-Q vs GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Max-Q GPU is faster than the GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop in gaming.

Our database shows that the GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop 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 RTX 3050 Laptop 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.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Max-Q 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 addition, the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Max-Q has a slightly lower TDP at 60 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop at 75 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 GTX 1660 Ti Max-Q is faster than the GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop.