NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jul 2022
Sep 2012
Generation
GeForce 30 Mobile
GeForce 600
Type
Mobile
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x8
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
622 MHz
980 MHz
Boost Clock
990 MHz
1032 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
1502 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
6GB
2GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR5
Memory Bus
96bit
192bit
Bandwidth
144.0GB/s
144.2GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
16
-
Shading Units
2048
960
TMUs
64
80
ROPs
32
24
Tensor Cores
64
-
RT Cores
16
-
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
16 KB (per SMX)
L2 Cache
2 MB
384 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
31.68 GPixel/s
20.64 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
63.36 GTexel/s
82.56 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
4.055 TFLOPS
-
FP32 (float)
4.055 TFLOPS
1.981 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
63.36 GFLOPS
82.56 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GA107
GK106
Architecture
Ampere
Kepler
Foundry
Samsung
TSMC
Process Size
8 nm
28 nm
Transistors
Unknown
2.54 billion
Die Size
Unknown
221 mm²
GPU Variant
-
GK106-400-A1
Board Design
TDP
75W
140W
Outputs
No outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors
None
1x 6-pin
Suggested PSU
-
300 W
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
12 (11_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
3.0
Vulkan
1.3
1.1
CUDA
8.6
3.0
Shader Model
6.6
5.1
📊 Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
-
1,194
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
-
260
OctaneBench
-
27
Blender
-
111