NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER 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, 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).

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile

Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 9 month(s) later
Around 82% higher pipelines: 2560 vs 1408
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 4 nm vs 12 nm
Around 9% lower typical power consumption: 115 Watt vs 125 Watt
Around 14% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 14441 vs 12712
Around 19% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 74538 vs 62641
Around 40% better performance in 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score: 1788 vs 1278

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	2023 vs 29 Oct 2019
Pipelines	2560 vs 1408
Manufacturing process technology	4 nm vs 12 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	115 Watt vs 125 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	14441 vs 12712
Geekbench - OpenCL	74538 vs 62641
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	1788 vs 1278

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

Around 5% higher core clock speed: 1530 MHz vs 1455 MHz
Around 2% higher boost clock speed: 1785 MHz vs 1755 MHz
Around 12% higher texture fill rate: 157.1 GTexel/s vs 140.4 GTexel/s
Around 28% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 804 vs 630

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	1530 MHz vs 1455 MHz
Boost clock speed	1785 MHz vs 1755 MHz
Texture fill rate	157.1 GTexel/s vs 140.4 GTexel/s
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	804 vs 630

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

630

804

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

14441

12712

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

74538

62641

3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score

GPU 1

GPU 2

1788

1278

Name	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER
PassMark - G2D Mark	630	804
PassMark - G3D Mark	14441	12712
Geekbench - OpenCL	74538	62641
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	1788	1278
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		187.131
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		2548.187
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		15.882
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		117.673
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		901.388
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		17812
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3717
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3351
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		17812
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3717
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3351

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER
Essentials
Architecture	Ada Lovelace	Turing
Code name	AD107	TU116
Launch date	2023	29 Oct 2019
Place in performance rating	167	223
Launch price (MSRP)		$229
Type		Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1755 MHz	1785 MHz
Core clock speed	1455 MHz	1530 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	4 nm	12 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	140.4 GFLOPS (1:64)	157.1 GFLOPS (1:32)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	8.986 TFLOPS (1:1)	10.05 TFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	8.986 TFLOPS	5.027 TFLOPS
Pipelines	2560	1408
Pixel fill rate	56.16 GPixel/s	85.68 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	140.4 GTexel/s	157.1 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	115 Watt	125 Watt
Transistor count		6600 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	Portable Device Dependent	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	IGP
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors	None	1x 8-pin
Length		9 inches (229 mm)
Recommended system power (PSU)		350 Watt
Width		Dual-slot
API support
DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)	12.1
OpenCL	3.0	1.2
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
Shader Model	6.7	6.4
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	6 GB	6 GB
Memory bandwidth	192.0 GB/s	336.0 GB/s
Memory bus width	96 bit	192 bit
Memory clock speed	2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective
Memory type	GDDR6	GDDR6