GeForce GTX 660 OEM and GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB - video card comparison

GeForce GTX 660 OEM

GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB

Architecture

Kepler (2012−2018)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

GK104

GA107

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

August 2012

February 2024

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x8

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin

None

Boost clock speed

888 MHz

1470 MHz

Core clock speed

823 MHz

Floating-point performance

2,046 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

3,540 million

8,700 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

1152

2304

Power consumption (TDP)

130 Watt

70 Watt

Texture fill rate

85.25

105.8

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

2 GB

6 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

96 Bit

Memory clock speed

5600 MHz

14 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

179.2 GB/s

168.0 GB/s

Display Connectors

2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort

1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

HDMI

DirectX

12 (11_0)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

3.0

8.6

OpenCL

1.2

3.0

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

5.1

6.7

Vulkan

1.1.126

1.3