NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Rev. 2 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Rev. 2 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 660 Rev. 2 and 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 42% (1470MHz vs 1032MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (168.0GB/s vs 144.2GB/s)

1344 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (70W vs 140W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 660 Rev. 2

1.981 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB +241%

6.774 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 660 Rev. 2

VS

GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Feb 2024

GeForce 600

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

980 MHz

Base Clock

1042 MHz

1032 MHz

Boost Clock

1470 MHz

1502 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

96bit

144.2GB/s

Bandwidth

168.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

18

-

Compute Units

-

960

Shading Units

2304

80

TMUs

72

24

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

72

-

RT Cores

18

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

384 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

20.64 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

47.04 GPixel/s

82.56 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

105.8 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

6.774 TFLOPS

1.981 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.774 TFLOPS

82.56 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

105.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GK104

GPU Name

GA107

-

GPU Variant

GA107-325-K2-A1

Kepler

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

3.54 billion

Transistors

8.7 billion

294 mm²

Die Size

200 mm²

Board Design

140W

TDP

70W

300 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.1

Vulkan

1.3

3.0

CUDA

8.6

5.1

Shader Model

6.7

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