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GeForce GTX 1660 vs 1050 Ti

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

We compared two discrete desktop gaming GPUs: the GeForce GTX 1660 6 GB with 22 pipelines and 1408 shaders against the 2 years and 5 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)

We use average GPU prices from all manufacturers by default. Enter the current price of a specific card for better accuracy.
Currency
6 GB GDDR5
VS
4 GB GDDR5
15.4
(Bad)
Value Index
14.6
(Bad)

Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages of GTX 1050 Ti over GTX 1660
Reasons to consider the GeForce GTX 1660
  • Performs significantly better (up to 2.2x) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • Shows 2.5x higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 35 vs 14 FPS
  • 2.4x higher maximum theoretical performance (5 vs 2.1 TFLOPS)
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 12 nm process technology
  • Includes 2 GB more video memory
  • Achieves 2.8x more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (60K vs 21K)
  • Has 71% higher memory bandwidth: 192.1 vs 112.1 GB/s
  • Has 83% more shading units (1408 vs 768)

Gaming Performance

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

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
81
45
36
24
31
16
15
9
The Witcher 3
74
59
41
21
25
22
13
-
Counter-Strike 2
119
83
60
25
47
29
22
9
Far Cry 6
66
56
44
21
33
29
18
9
Hogwarts Legacy
42
32
23
12
18
13
10
-
CoD: Modern Warfare III
51
42
26
17
28
24
17
12
Ghost of Tsushima
37
30
20
11
15
9
-
-
Cyberpunk 2077
40
36
22
9
15
13
-
-
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
68
62
43
20
29
26
17
-
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 64 27
1080p Ultra 49 20
1440p Ultra 35 14
4K Ultra 18 -
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 +121%
5100
GTX 1050 Ti
2311
Time Spy 5443 2351
Solar Bay 18104 -
Port Royal 1455 -
Fire Strike 14207 7702
Wild Life Extreme 10947 4901
Night Raid 66328 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 +184%
60105
GTX 1050 Ti
21180
Background Blur 107.7 img/sec 56.6 img/sec
Face Detection 58.6 img/sec 27.4 img/sec
Horizon Detection 2.07 Gpixels/sec 0.82 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 2.61 Gpixels/sec 1.2 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 3 Gpixels/sec 1.27 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.77 Gpixels/sec 0.18 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 301.7 Gpixels/sec 66.3 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 8078.5 FPS 1916.5 FPS
API OpenCL OpenCL
Sources: Geekbench [3], [4]

Passmark Graphics

Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features
G3D Mark Score
GTX 1660 +82%
11610
GTX 1050 Ti
6367
G2D Mark 777 656
DirectX 11 79 FPS 44 FPS
DirectX 12 49 FPS 26 FPS
GPU Compute 4928 Ops/s 2669 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 9475 & 47071 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
GTX 1660 +238%
719.36
GTX 1050 Ti
212.92
Sources: Blender [9], [10] – 332 & 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 +109%
8617
GTX 1050 Ti
4117
GB6 ML Half Precision
GTX 1660 +107%
7365
GTX 1050 Ti
3560
GB6 ML Quantized
GTX 1660 +102%
6243
GTX 1050 Ti
3084
Image Classification (SP) 3814 1518
Image Segmentation (HP) 4931 2085
Image Super Resolution (Q) 8081 4847
Face Detection (HP) 8691 3275
Pose Estimation (Q) 33497 16118
Text Classification (SP) 1586 1440
Machine Translation (HP) 2227 1875
Object Detection (SP) 4384 1743
Depth Estimation (Q) 16173 6258
Style Transfer (SP) 72011 26368
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of GeForce GTX 1660 and 1050 Ti

General

Vendor Nvidia Nvidia
Build Discrete Discrete
Released March 14, 2019 October 25, 2016
Launch price (MSRP) $219 $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 (78th and 89th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 1530 MHz 1291 MHz
Boost Clock 1785 MHz 1392 MHz
Shading Units 1408 768
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 88 48
Render Output Units (ROPs) 48 32
Compute Units (Pipelines) 22 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 86 GPixel/s 45 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 157 GTexel/s 67 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
GTX 1660 +138%
5 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 GDDR5 GDDR5
Memory Size 6 GB 4 GB
Memory Clock 2001 MHz 1752 MHz
Effective Memory Speed 8000 Mbps 7000 Mbps
Bus 192-bit 128-bit
ECC No No
Memory Bandwidth
GTX 1660 +71%
192.1 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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Total votes: 10

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