NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB GA107 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jan 2022
Mar 2019
Generation
GeForce 30
GeForce 16
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x8
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1552 MHz
1530 MHz
Boost Clock
1777 MHz
1785 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
2001 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
8GB
6GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR5
Memory Bus
128bit
192bit
Bandwidth
224.0GB/s
192.1GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
20
22
Shading Units
2560
1408
TMUs
80
88
ROPs
32
48
Tensor Cores
80
-
RT Cores
20
-
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
64 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
2 MB
1536 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
56.86 GPixel/s
85.68 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
142.2 GTexel/s
157.1 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
9.098 TFLOPS
10.05 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
9.098 TFLOPS
5.027 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
142.2 GFLOPS
157.1 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GA107
TU116
GPU Variant
GA107-150-A1
TU116-300-A1
Architecture
Ampere
Turing
Foundry
Samsung
TSMC
Process Size
8 nm
12 nm
Transistors
Unknown
6.6 billion
Die Size
Unknown
284 mm²
Board Design
TDP
115W
120W
Suggested PSU
300 W
300 W
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.01x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
1x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
3.0
Vulkan
1.3
1.3
CUDA
8.6
7.5
Shader Model
6.6
6.6
📊 Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
7,384
5,444
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
3,391
2,465