NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti (Laptop)

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4GB and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti (Laptop) 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, 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4GB

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 11 month(s) later
  • Around 6% higher core clock speed: 1545 MHz vs 1455 MHz
  • Around 9% higher boost clock speed: 1740 MHz vs 1590 MHz
  • Around 50% higher pipelines: 2304 vs 1536
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 8 nm vs 12 nm
  • Around 97% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 942 vs 477
  • Around 27% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 12873 vs 10155
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 2022 vs 23 April 2019
Core clock speed 1545 MHz vs 1455 MHz
Boost clock speed 1740 MHz vs 1590 MHz
Pipelines 2304 vs 1536
Manufacturing process technology 8 nm vs 12 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 942 vs 477
PassMark - G3D Mark 12873 vs 10155

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti (Laptop)

  • Around 50% higher maximum memory size: 6144 MB vs 4 GB
  • 6.9x more memory clock speed: 12000 MHz vs 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective
Maximum memory size 6144 MB vs 4 GB
Memory clock speed 12000 MHz vs 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective

Compare benchmarks

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

PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
942
477
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
12873
10155
Name NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4GB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti (Laptop)
PassMark - G2D Mark 942 477
PassMark - G3D Mark 12873 10155
Geekbench - OpenCL 49885
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 5564
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 15109
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 15109
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 16828
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 16828
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 8054
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 8054

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4GB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti (Laptop)

Essentials

Architecture Ampere Turing
Code name GA107 N18E-G0
Launch date 2022 23 April 2019
Place in performance rating 88 112
Type Desktop Laptop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1740 MHz 1590 MHz
Core clock speed 1545 MHz 1455 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 1536
Pixel fill rate 55.68 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 125.3 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 90 Watt
Transistor count 6600 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a No outputs
DisplayPort support
HDMI

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

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

API support

DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2) 12.1
OpenCL 3.0
OpenGL 4.6
Shader Model 6.7
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 6144 MB
Memory bandwidth 224.0 GB/s
Memory bus width 128 bit 192 bit
Memory clock speed 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective 12000 MHz
Memory type GDDR6 GDDR6