GeForce GTX 1660 Mobile and GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 1660 Mobile
GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB
Architecture
Turing (2018−2021)
Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code name
TU116B
GA106
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
May 2019
January 2022
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors
-
1x 8-pin
Boost clock speed
1590 MHz
1777 MHz
Core clock speed
1455 MHz
-
Manufacturing process technology
12 nm
8 nm
Number of transistors
6,600 million
12,000 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1280
2560
Power consumption (TDP)
-
130 Watt
Texture fill rate
127.2
142.2
Memory type
GDDR6
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
6 GB
8 GB
Memory bus width
192 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
16000 MHz
14 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
384.0 GB/s
224.0 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI
+
+
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
CUDA
7.5
8.6
OpenCL
1.2
3.0
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.5
6.6
Vulkan
1.2.140
1.3