NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4GB and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4GB

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 1 month(s) later
  • Around 1% higher core clock speed: 1545 MHz vs 1530 MHz
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 8 nm vs 12 nm
  • Around 33% lower typical power consumption: 90 Watt vs 120 Watt
  • Around 20% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 941 vs 782
  • Around 10% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 12845 vs 11691
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 2022 vs 14 March 2019
Core clock speed 1545 MHz vs 1530 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 8 nm vs 12 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 90 Watt vs 120 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 941 vs 782
PassMark - G3D Mark 12845 vs 11691

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660

  • Around 3% higher boost clock speed: 1785 MHz vs 1740 MHz
  • 4.6x more memory clock speed: 8004 MHz vs 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective
  • Around 14% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 57151 vs 50117
Specifications (specs)
Boost clock speed 1785 MHz vs 1740 MHz
Memory clock speed 8004 MHz vs 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL 57151 vs 50117

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4GB
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660

PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
941
782
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
12845
11691
Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
50117
57151
Name NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4GB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660
PassMark - G2D Mark 941 782
PassMark - G3D Mark 12845 11691
Geekbench - OpenCL 50117 57151
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 190.366
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 1892.505
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 13.492
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 118.54
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 887.857
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 14998
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3717
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3359
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 14998
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3717
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3359
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 5414

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4GB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660

Essentials

Architecture Ampere Turing
Code name GA107 TU116
Launch date 2022 14 March 2019
Place in performance rating 79 240
Type Desktop Desktop
Launch price (MSRP) $219

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1740 MHz 1785 MHz
Core clock speed 1545 MHz 1530 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 8 nm 12 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 125.3 GFLOPS (1:64)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 8.018 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 8.018 TFLOPS
Pipelines 2304
Pixel fill rate 55.68 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 125.3 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 90 Watt 120 Watt
Transistor count 6,600 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
DisplayPort support
HDMI
DisplayPort count 1

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Form factor Dual-slot
Interface PCIe 4.0 x8 PCIe 3.0 x16
Length 242 mm, 9.5 inches 229 mm
Recommended system power (PSU) 250 Watt
Supplementary power connectors 1x 6-pin 1x 8-pin
Width 112 mm, 4.4 inches

API support

DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2) 12.0
OpenCL 3.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
Shader Model 6.7
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 4 GB
Memory bandwidth 224.0 GB/s
Memory bus width 128 bit
Memory clock speed 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective 8004 MHz
Memory type GDDR6