GeForce RTX 5050 vs GeForce GTX 1660
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5050 and 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1660 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce RTX 5050 's Advantages
Released 5 years and 10 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 41% (2520MHz vs 1785MHz)
More VRAM (8GB vs 6GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 192.1GB/s)
1152 additional rendering cores
GeForce GTX 1660 's Advantages
Lower TDP (120W vs 130W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 5050
+156%
12900
GeForce GTX 1660
5027
Graphics Card
Jan 2025
Release Date
Mar 2019
GeForce 50
Generation
GeForce 16
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 5.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
2235 MHz
Base Clock
1530 MHz
2520 MHz
Boost Clock
1785 MHz
1750 MHz
Memory Clock
2001 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
6GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
192bit
224.0GB/s
Bandwidth
192.1GB/s
Render Config
20
SM Count
22
2560
Shading Units
1408
80
TMUs
88
32
ROPs
48
80
Tensor Cores
-
20
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
32 MB
L2 Cache
1536 KB
Theoretical Performance
80.64 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
85.68 GPixel/s
201.6 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
157.1 GTexel/s
12.90 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
10.05 TFLOPS
12.90 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
5.027 TFLOPS
201.6 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
157.1 GFLOPS
Board Design
130W
TDP
120W
300 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
1x HDMI 2.1b
3x DisplayPort 2.1b
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
1x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 16-pin
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GB207
GPU Name
TU116
GB207-300-A1
GPU Variant
TU116-300-A1
Blackwell 2.0
Architecture
Turing
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
5 nm
Process Size
12 nm
Unknown
Transistors
6.6 billion
Unknown
Die Size
284 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.4
Vulkan
1.3
10.1
CUDA
7.5
6.8
Shader Model
6.6
