NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 3 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2624 points

221% significantly better overall score

816 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

64 FPS

46 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

18 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

32 FPS

21 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

11 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

45 FPS

33 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

13 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

25 FPS

16 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

9 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

1161.74 points

847% significantly higher Blender score

122.56 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

58544 points

582% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

8583 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

55123 points

384% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

11381 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

47251 points

341% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

10693 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

51045 points

349% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

11353 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

53105 points

347% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

11858 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1238 MHz

26% slightly higher core clock speed

980 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1500 MHz

45% significantly higher boost clock speed

1032 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

33% slightly more memory

3 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit

192 Bit

49% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

192 GB/s

33% slightly higher memory bandwidth

144.2 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

75 W

86% significantly lower TDP

140 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

33.82 Gigapixels/s

63% significantly higher pixel rate

20.64 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

67.65 Gigatexels/s

82.56 Gigatexels/s

22% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

4.33 TFLOPS

118% significantly better floating point performance

1.98 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2048

113% significantly more shading units

960

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

25% slightly more texture mapping units

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

173rd of 597

283rd of 597

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

11.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

4.5

GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop vs GeForce GTX 660 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop beats the GeForce GTX 660 in gaming performance.

In our comparison, the GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop 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 RTX 3050 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.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the GeForce RTX 3050 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 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.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop is faster than the GeForce GTX 660.