NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB and 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER 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 4 years and 4 months late

896 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (70W vs 125W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 21% (1785MHz vs 1470MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 168.0GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB +34%

6.774 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

5.027 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB

VS

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

Graphics Card

Feb 2024

Release Date

Oct 2019

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 16

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1042MHz

Base Clock

1530MHz

1470MHz

Boost Clock

1785MHz

1750MHz

Memory Clock

1750MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

96bit

Memory Bus

192bit

168.0 GB/s

Bandwidth

336.0 GB/s

Render Config

18

SM Count

22

-

Compute Units

-

2304

Shading Units

1408

72

TMUs

88

32

ROPs

48

72

Tensor Cores

-

18

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

2MB

L2 Cache

1536KB

Theoretical Performance

47.04 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

85.68 GPixel/s

105.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

157.1 GTexel/s

6.774 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

10.05 TFLOPS

6.774 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.027 TFLOPS

105.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

157.1 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA107

GPU Name

TU116

GA107-325-K2-A1

GPU Variant

TU116-300-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Turing

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

12 nm

8,700 million

Transistors

6,600 million

200mm²

Die Size

284mm²

Board Design

70W

TDP

125W

250W

Suggested PSU

300W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

8.6

CUDA

7.5

6.7

Shader Model

6.6

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