NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Max-Q vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Max-Q 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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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

3236 points
4302 points
32% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

73 FPS
104 FPS
30 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

46 FPS
53 FPS
7 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

54 FPS
76 FPS
22 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

34 FPS
41 FPS
8 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

756.05 points
2581.07 points
241% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

56770 points
75551 points
33% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

54216 points
75827 points
39% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1140 MHz
1455 MHz
27% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1335 MHz
1755 MHz
31% slightly higher boost clock speed

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

288 GB/s
49% significantly higher memory bandwidth
192 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

60 W
50 W
20% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

64.08 Gigapixels/s
14% slightly higher pixel rate
56.16 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

128.2 Gigatexels/s
140.4 Gigatexels/s
9% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

4.10 TFLOPS
8.99 TFLOPS
119% 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

96
20% 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

144th of 586
118th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 April
2023 January

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 Ti Max-Q vs GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop benchmarks

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Max-Q in our tests.

Our database shows that the GeForce RTX 4050 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 4050 Laptop 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 slightly lower TDP at 50 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Max-Q at 60 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 Ti Max-Q.

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