NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Max-Q vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050

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

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

3236 points

5507 points

70% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

73 FPS

135 FPS

61 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

46 FPS

66 FPS

20 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

54 FPS

94 FPS

41 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

34 FPS

52 FPS

18 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

4964 points

114% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

2317 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

756.05 points

2880.41 points

280% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

56770 points

97092 points

71% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

54216 points

91845 points

69% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1140 MHz

2317 MHz

103% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1335 MHz

2572 MHz

92% 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

288 GB/s

320 GB/s

11% slightly higher memory bandwidth

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

82.3 Gigapixels/s

28% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

128.2 Gigatexels/s

205.8 Gigatexels/s

60% significantly higher texture rate

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

91st of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 April

2025 July

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 5050 benchmarks

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 5050 graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Max-Q in our tests.

The GeForce RTX 5050 has a significantly 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 5050 also has a significantly 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 GTX 1660 Ti Max-Q has a significantly lower TDP at 60 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 5050 at 130 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

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