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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Price

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$ 509.99
$ 263.99
$ 246.00 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

39 %
11% slightly better overall score
35 %

Flux Core frame rate

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

85 FPS
3 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate
82 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

53 FPS
10 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate
43 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

62 FPS
1 FPS slightly higher City frame rate
61 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

39 FPS
6 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate
33 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

6295
1% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score
6202
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

820.85
1588.40
93% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

66368
72998
9% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

61373
71667
16% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

53550
56109
4% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

66661
1% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
65778
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

60266
64788
7% 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

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

65th of 549
71st of 549

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

February 2019
January 2022

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 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.

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