NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Laptop

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 3 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 660

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Laptop

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

816 points

3236 points

296% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

18 FPS

79 FPS

60 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

11 FPS

41 FPS

29 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

13 FPS

57 FPS

44 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

9 FPS

31 FPS

22 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

122.56 points

1333.84 points

988% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

8583 points

66487 points

674% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

11381 points

62154 points

446% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

10693 points

52643 points

392% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

11353 points

58669 points

416% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

11858 points

55976 points

372% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

980 MHz

1222 MHz

24% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1032 MHz

1485 MHz

43% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

3 GiB

4 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

144.2 GB/s

192 GB/s

33% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

140 W

75 W

86% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

20.64 Gigapixels/s

33.12 Gigapixels/s

60% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

82.56 Gigatexels/s

82.8 Gigatexels/s

0.29% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

1.98 TFLOPS

5.30 TFLOPS

167% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

960

2560

166% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

Identical

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

33% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

283rd of 597

144th of 597

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

11.0

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.6

GeForce GTX 660 vs GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Laptop benchmarks

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Laptop graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 660 in our tests.

Our database shows that the GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Laptop 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 Ti Laptop also has a significantly 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.

As stated by the manufacturer, the GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Laptop has slightly more memory with 4 GiB of memory compared to 3 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Laptop has a significantly lower TDP at 75 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 660 at 140 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 RTX 3050 Ti Laptop over the GeForce GTX 660.