NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4GB and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti 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) 2 month(s) later
  • Around 3% higher core clock speed: 1545 MHz vs 1500 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 16% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 941 vs 813
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 2022 vs 22 February 2019
Core clock speed 1545 MHz vs 1500 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 8 nm vs 12 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 90 Watt vs 120 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 941 vs 813

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti

  • Around 2% higher boost clock speed: 1770 MHz vs 1740 MHz
  • 6.9x more memory clock speed: 12000 MHz vs 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective
  • Around 1% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 12931 vs 12843
  • Around 23% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 61407 vs 50117
Specifications (specs)
Boost clock speed 1770 MHz vs 1740 MHz
Memory clock speed 12000 MHz vs 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 12931 vs 12843
Geekbench - OpenCL 61407 vs 50117

Compare benchmarks

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

PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
941
813
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
12843
12931
Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
50117
61407
Name NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4GB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti
PassMark - G2D Mark 941 813
PassMark - G3D Mark 12843 12931
Geekbench - OpenCL 50117 61407
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 208.608
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 2573.643
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 16.447
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 145.886
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 926.614
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 16952
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3718
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3355
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 16952
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3718
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3355
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 6260

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4GB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti

Essentials

Architecture Ampere Turing
Code name GA107 TU116
Launch date 2022 22 February 2019
Place in performance rating 79 200
Type Desktop Desktop
Launch price (MSRP) $279
Price now $279.99
Value for money (0-100) 67.32

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1740 MHz 1770 MHz
Core clock speed 1545 MHz 1500 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 12000 MHz
Memory type GDDR6