NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Laptop

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Ti 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 Ti Laptop

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

3653 points

12% slightly better overall score

3236 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

82 FPS

3 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

79 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

49 FPS

9 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

41 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

60 FPS

3 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

57 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

37 FPS

6 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

31 FPS

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

722.48 points

1333.84 points

84% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

60503 points

66487 points

9% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

55712 points

62154 points

11% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

51028 points

52643 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

59886 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

58669 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

56143 points

0.30% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

55976 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1530 MHz

25% slightly higher core clock speed

1222 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1785 MHz

20% slightly higher boost clock speed

1485 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

158% significantly higher pixel rate

33.12 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

157.1 Gigatexels/s

89% significantly higher texture rate

82.8 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.03 TFLOPS

5.30 TFLOPS

5% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1408

2560

81% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

10% 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

144th 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 Ti Laptop specs and performance

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 1660 graphics card is better than the GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Laptop in our tests.

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.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the GeForce GTX 1660 has significantly more memory with 6 GiB of memory compared to 4 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Laptop has a significantly lower TDP at 75 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1660 at 120 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 GTX 1660 over the GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Laptop.