NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti 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 RTX 3050

Price

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$ 174.97

$ 55.02 significantly less expensive

$ 229.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

3968 points

14% slightly better overall score

3468 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

88 FPS

5 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

82 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

53 FPS

12 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

41 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

64 FPS

5 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

59 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

40 FPS

9 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

31 FPS

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Gaming Benchmarks

Fortnite FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

85 FPS

16 FPS slightly higher Fortnite FPS

69 FPS

God of War FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

46 FPS

4 FPS slightly higher God of War FPS

42 FPS

Red Dead Redemption 2 FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

45 FPS

49 FPS

4 FPS slightly higher Red Dead Redemption 2 FPS

Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

6332 points

1% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

6224 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

799.88 points

1484.67 points

85% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

66368 points

72998 points

9% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

61373 points

71667 points

16% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

53550 points

56109 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

65938 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

63483 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

62004 points

62406 points

0.65% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1500 MHz

1552 MHz

3% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1770 MHz

1777 MHz

0.40% 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

120 W

8% slightly lower TDP

130 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

84.96 Gigapixels/s

49% significantly higher pixel rate

56.86 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

169.9 Gigatexels/s

19% slightly higher texture rate

142.2 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.44 TFLOPS

9.10 TFLOPS

67% 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

124th of 586

139th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 February

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 vs GeForce RTX 3050 benchmarks

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

Our database shows that 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 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.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the GeForce RTX 3050 has slightly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 6 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti has a slightly lower TDP at 120 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3050 at 130 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

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