NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 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

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

3653 points

39% slightly better overall score

2624 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

82 FPS

17 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

64 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

49 FPS

17 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

32 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

60 FPS

15 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

45 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

37 FPS

12 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

25 FPS

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

722.48 points

1161.74 points

60% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

60503 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

58544 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

55712 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

55123 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

51028 points

7% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

47251 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

59886 points

17% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

51045 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

56143 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

53105 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1530 MHz

23% slightly higher core clock speed

1238 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1785 MHz

19% slightly higher boost clock speed

1500 MHz

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

192.1 GB/s

0.05% slightly higher memory bandwidth

192 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

120 W

75 W

60% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

85.68 Gigapixels/s

153% significantly higher pixel rate

33.82 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

157.1 Gigatexels/s

132% significantly higher texture rate

67.65 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.03 TFLOPS

16% slightly better floating point performance

4.33 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1408

2048

45% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

37% 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

134th of 597

172nd of 597

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 March

2021 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.6

GeForce GTX 1660 vs GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GTX 1660 beats the GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop in gaming performance.

The GeForce GTX 1660 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 GTX 1660 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 GTX 1660 has significantly more memory with 6 GiB of memory compared to 4 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 RTX 3050 Laptop has a significantly lower TDP at 75 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1660 at 120 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GTX 1660 over the GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop.