NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q vs AMD Radeon 660M

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q and AMD Radeon 660M 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: Geekbench - OpenCL.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q

  • Around 48% higher texture fill rate: 67.65 GTexel/s vs 45.60 GTexel/s
  • 5.3x more pipelines: 2048 vs 384
Texture fill rate 67.65 GTexel/s vs 45.60 GTexel/s
Pipelines 2048 vs 384

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon 660M

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 7 month(s) later
  • 2.1x more core clock speed: 1500 MHz vs 712 MHz
  • Around 80% higher boost clock speed: 1900 MHz vs 1057 MHz
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 6 nm vs 8 nm
  • 2.3x lower typical power consumption: 15 Watt vs 35 Watt
Launch date 4 Jan 2022 vs 11 May 2021
Core clock speed 1500 MHz vs 712 MHz
Boost clock speed 1900 MHz vs 1057 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 6 nm vs 8 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 15 Watt vs 35 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q
GPU 2: AMD Radeon 660M

Name NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q AMD Radeon 660M
Geekbench - OpenCL 13432

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q AMD Radeon 660M

Essentials

Architecture Ampere RDNA 2.0
Code name GA107 Rembrandt
Launch date 11 May 2021 4 Jan 2022
Place in performance rating not rated 1349

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1057 MHz 1900 MHz
Core clock speed 712 MHz 1500 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 8 nm 6 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 67.65 GFLOPS (1:64) 91.20 GFLOPS (1:16)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 4.329 TFLOPS (1:1) 2.918 TFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 4.329 TFLOPS 1459 GFLOPS
Pipelines 2048 384
Pixel fill rate 33.82 GPixel/s 30.40 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 67.65 GTexel/s 45.60 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 35 Watt 15 Watt
Compute units 6
Transistor count 13100 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors Portable Device Dependent

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Form factor IGP IGP
Interface PCIe 4.0 x8 PCIe 4.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors None

API support

DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2) 12.2
OpenCL 3.0 2.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
Shader Model 6.7 6.7
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 4 GB
Memory bandwidth 176.0 GB/s
Memory bus width 128 bit
Memory clock speed 1375 MHz, 11 Gbps effective
Memory type GDDR6