GPU Comparison

NVIDIA

GEFORCE

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660

CORE STATE TU116

VRAM 6 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1785 MHz

TDP 120 W

BUS WIDTH 192 bit

ARCHITECTURE Turing

nm

PROCESS 12 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2019

VS

NVIDIA

GEFORCE

GeForce RTX 3050 OEM

CORE STATE GA106

VRAM 8 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1755 MHz

TDP 130 W

BUS WIDTH 128 bit

ARCHITECTURE Ampere

nm

PROCESS 8 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2022

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

1,065

N/A

geekbench_opencl

57,988

60,740

geekbench_vulkan

55,845

57,103

passmark_directx_10

61

61

passmark_directx_11

79

86

passmark_directx_12

49

58

passmark_directx_9

177

137

passmark_g2d

776

973

passmark_g3d

11,646

11,857

passmark_gpu_compute

4,963

5,779

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

GTX 1660

RTX 3050 OEM

Core Specs

Shading Units

1,408

2,304 +63.6%

Shaders

1,408

2,304 +63.6%

TMUs

88

72 -18.2%

ROPs

48

32 -33.3%

SM Count

22

18 -18.2%

Clocks

Base Clock

1530 MHz

1515 MHz

Boost Clock

1785 MHz

1755 MHz

Memory Clock

2001 MHz 8 Gbps effective

1750 MHz 14 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

6 GB

8 GB

VRAM (MB)

6,144

8,192 +33.3%

Memory Type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Memory Bus

192 bit

128 bit

Bandwidth

192.1 GB/s

224.0 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

128 KB (per SM)

L2 Cache

1536 KB

2 MB

Performance

Pixel Rate

85.68 GPixel/s

56.16 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

157.1 GTexel/s

126.4 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

5.027 TFLOPS

8.087 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

157.1 GFLOPS (1:32)

126.4 GFLOPS (1:64)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

10.05 TFLOPS (2:1)

8.087 TFLOPS (1:1)

AI/RT

RT Cores

—

18

Tensor Cores

—

72

Power

TDP

120 W

130 W

TDP (W)

120

130 +8.3%

Suggested PSU

300 W

300 W

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

1x 8-pin

Architecture

Architecture

Turing

Ampere

GPU Name

TU116

GA106

Generation

GeForce 16

GeForce 30

Process Size

12 nm

8 nm

Transistors

6,600 million

12,000 million

Die Size

284 mm²

276 mm²

Foundry

TSMC

Samsung

Density

23.2M / mm²

43.5M / mm²

API Support

DirectX

12 (12_1)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Vulkan

1.4

1.4

OpenCL

3.0

3.0

CUDA

7.5

8.6

Shader Model

6.8

6.8

Physical

Slot Width

Dual-slot

Dual-slot

Length

229 mm 9 inches

242 mm 9.5 inches

Height

111 mm 4.4 inches

112 mm 4.4 inches

Outputs

1x DVI1x HDMI 2.01x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x8

Other

Launch Price

219 USD

—

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

GeForce 10

GeForce 20

Successor

GeForce 20

GeForce 40

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