NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop, 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 4050 Laptop

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

3653 points

4302 points

17% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

82 FPS

104 FPS

22 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

49 FPS

53 FPS

4 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

60 FPS

76 FPS

15 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

37 FPS

41 FPS

4 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

722.48 points

2581.07 points

257% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

59886 points

75551 points

26% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

56143 points

75827 points

35% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1530 MHz

5% slightly higher core clock speed

1455 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1785 MHz

1% slightly higher boost clock speed

1755 MHz

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

96 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

50 W

139% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

85.68 Gigapixels/s

52% significantly higher pixel rate

56.16 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

157.1 Gigatexels/s

11% slightly higher texture rate

140.4 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.03 TFLOPS

8.99 TFLOPS

78% significantly 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

133rd of 586

117th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 March

2023 January

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 4050 Laptop specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop beats the GeForce GTX 1660 in gaming performance.

Our database shows that the GeForce GTX 1660 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 GTX 1660 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop has a significantly lower TDP at 50 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1660 at 120 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 4050 Laptop is better than the GeForce GTX 1660.