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GeForce GTX 1660 Ti vs 1050 Ti

GeForce GTX 1660 Ti
VS
GeForce GTX 1050 Ti
Nvidia GeForce GTX 1660 Ti
TU116
Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 Ti
GP107

We compared two discrete desktop gaming GPUs: the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti 6 GB with 24 pipelines and 1536 shaders against the 2 years and 4 months older 1050 Ti 4 GB that utilizes 6 pipelines and 768 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.

  1. Review
  2. Differences
  3. Gaming performance
  4. Benchmarks
  5. AI
  6. Specs
  7. Comments

Review

General comparison of performance in games, applications, power efficiency, and other metrics
Gaming
Performance in DirectX, OpenCL, and Vulkan games
Workstation
Perf. in 3D modeling, video editing and rendering apps
AI/ML
Capabilities for machine learning and AI-related tasks
Energy Efficiency
Power consumption efficiency in different scenarios
NanoReview Final Score
Overall video card score

Value for money (Beta)

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Currency
6 GB GDDR6
VS
4 GB GDDR5
25.7
(Mediocre)
Value Index
14.6
(Bad)

Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages of GTX 1050 Ti over GTX 1660 Ti
Reasons to consider the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti
  • Performs significantly better (up to 2.6x) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • Shows 2.9x higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 41 vs 14 FPS
  • 2.6x higher maximum theoretical performance (5.4 vs 2.1 TFLOPS)
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 12 nm process technology
  • Includes 2 GB more video memory
  • Achieves 3.4x more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (72K vs 21K)
  • Has 2.6x higher memory bandwidth: 288 vs 112.1 GB/s
  • Has 2x more shading units (1536 vs 768)

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions
GPU
GTX 1660 Ti
vs
GTX 1050 Ti

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
89
51
44
24
31
16
15
9
The Witcher 3
88
70
46
24
25
22
13
-
Counter-Strike 2
140
95
71
30
47
29
22
9
Far Cry 6
73
63
49
22
33
29
18
9
Hogwarts Legacy
49
40
26
15
18
13
10
-
CoD: Modern Warfare III
58
47
35
24
28
24
17
12
Ghost of Tsushima
45
35
24
14
15
9
-
-
Cyberpunk 2077
46
41
25
10
15
13
-
-
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
78
75
50
25
29
26
17
-
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 74 27
1080p Ultra 57 20
1440p Ultra 41 14
4K Ultra 21 -
Margin of Error Low Low

Benchmarks

Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps

3D Mark

Multiplatform graphics benchmark suite that directly correlates with performance in modern games
Steel Nomad Lite Score
GTX 1660 Ti +157%
5943
GTX 1050 Ti
2311
Time Spy 6339 2351
Solar Bay 20515 -
Port Royal 1649 -
Fire Strike 16654 7702
Wild Life Extreme 13006 4901
Night Raid 76387 33499
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
GTX 1660 Ti +242%
72340
GTX 1050 Ti
21180
Background Blur 124.8 img/sec 56.6 img/sec
Face Detection 69.4 img/sec 27.4 img/sec
Horizon Detection 2.67 Gpixels/sec 0.82 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 3.48 Gpixels/sec 1.2 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 3.52 Gpixels/sec 1.27 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.92 Gpixels/sec 0.18 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 355.9 Gpixels/sec 66.3 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 9094.4 FPS 1916.5 FPS
API OpenCL OpenCL
Sources: Geekbench [3], [4]

Cinebench 2024 GPU

Hardware benchmark using Maxon's Cinema 4D rendering engine
Cinebench 2024 GPU

Passmark Graphics

Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features
G3D Mark Score
GTX 1660 Ti +98%
12581
GTX 1050 Ti
6367
G2D Mark 769 656
DirectX 11 103 FPS 44 FPS
DirectX 12 51 FPS 26 FPS
GPU Compute 5020 Ops/s 2669 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 14541 & 47071 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
GTX 1660 Ti +272%
792.56
GTX 1050 Ti
212.92
Sources: Blender [9], [10] – 795 & 470 samples
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Artificial Intelligence Tests

Performance in machine learning and artificial intelligence tasks

GeekBench 6 ML

Tests throughput of AI operations in single, half, and quantized precision
GB6 ML Single Precision
GTX 1660 Ti +162%
10788
GTX 1050 Ti
4117
GB6 ML Half Precision
GTX 1660 Ti +146%
8753
GTX 1050 Ti
3560
GB6 ML Quantized
GTX 1660 Ti +147%
7620
GTX 1050 Ti
3084
Image Classification (SP) 4272 1518
Image Segmentation (HP) 6435 2085
Image Super Resolution (Q) 9635 4847
Face Detection (HP) 10867 3275
Pose Estimation (Q) 41061 16118
Text Classification (SP) 1737 1440
Machine Translation (HP) 3301 1875
Object Detection (SP) 5600 1743
Depth Estimation (Q) 18914 6258
Style Transfer (SP) 83427 26368
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of GeForce GTX 1660 Ti and 1050 Ti

General

Vendor Nvidia Nvidia
Build Discrete Discrete
Released February 22, 2019 October 25, 2016
Launch price (MSRP) $279 $139
Case Desktop Desktop
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Segment Entry-level Entry-level
Architecture Turing Pascal
GPU Codename TU116 GP107
Rival Equivalent - Radeon RX 5600 XT - Radeon RX 570
Recommended CPU - Intel Core i5 9500 or above -
Desktop GPU rating (73rd and 89th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 1500 MHz 1291 MHz
Boost Clock 1770 MHz 1392 MHz
Shading Units 1536 768
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 96 48
Render Output Units (ROPs) 48 32
Compute Units (Pipelines) 24 6
Tensor Cores No No
Ray-tracing Cores No No
L1 Cache 64KB per cluster 48KB per cluster
L2 Cache 1536KB shared 1024KB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 85 GPixel/s 45 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 170 GTexel/s 67 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
GTX 1660 Ti +157%
5.4 TFLOPS
GTX 1050 Ti
2.1 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
TGP 120 W 75 W
Manufacturing TSMC Samsung
Fabrication Process 12 nm 14 nm
Die Size 284 mm² 132 mm²
Transistor Count 6 billion 3 billion
Transistor Density 21.13 MTr/mm² 22.73 MTr/mm²
Max. Temperature - 97°C

Memory

Memory Type GDDR6 GDDR5
Memory Size 6 GB 4 GB
Memory Clock 1500 MHz 1752 MHz
Effective Memory Speed 12000 Mbps 7000 Mbps
Bus 192-bit 128-bit
ECC No No
Memory Bandwidth
GTX 1660 Ti +157%
288 GB/s
GTX 1050 Ti
112.1 GB/s

API

DirectX 12 12
Vulkan 1.3 1.3
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 3.0 3.0
CUDA 7.5 6.1
Ray Tracing No No
DLSS No No
DisplayPort 1.4a 1.4a

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