AMD Radeon 660M vs GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop
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AMD Radeon 660M
Rembrandt
We performed a head-to-head comparison of the Radeon 660M with 6 pipelines and 384 shaders against the 1 year older GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile 4 GB that utilizes 16 pipelines and 2048 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.
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Review
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
Key differences
Reasons to consider the Radeon 660M
- Manufactured using a more efficient 6 nm process technology
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop
- Performs significantly better (up to 3.7x) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
- 4.7x higher maximum theoretical performance (7.1 vs 1.5 TFLOPS)
- Shows 3.6x higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 32 vs 9 FPS
- Includes 4 GB of dedicated GDDR6 memory
- Achieves 4.2x more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (58K vs 14K)
- Has 5.3x more shading units (2048 vs 384)
- Supports Nvidia DLSS 2 technology
Gaming Performance
Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutionsGames
| Forza Horizon 5 | 27 13 11 - |
75 44 34 21 |
| The Witcher 3 | 9 12 - - |
68 53 38 20 |
| Counter-Strike 2 | 28 17 13 - |
115 80 54 23 |
| Far Cry 6 | 20 16 9 - |
60 52 40 17 |
| Hogwarts Legacy | 10 - - - |
37 28 23 12 |
| CoD: Modern Warfare III | 18 15 13 - |
48 37 27 16 |
| Ghost of Tsushima | 13 - - - |
37 28 18 10 |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 9 9 - - |
36 35 19 - |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 17 14 11 - |
66 62 39 18 |
| 1080p High | 17 | 60 |
| 1080p Ultra | 12 | 47 |
| 1440p Ultra | 9 | 32 |
| 4K Ultra | - | 16 |
| Margin of Error | Low | Low |
Benchmarks
Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps3D Mark
Steel Nomad Lite Score
| Time Spy | 1514 | 4884 |
| Solar Bay | 6396 | 21596 |
| Port Royal | 586 | 552 |
| Fire Strike | 4879 | 12571 |
| Wild Life Extreme | 2676 | 9400 |
| Night Raid | 18958 | 53685 |
GeekBench 6 OpenCL
GB6 Compute Score
| Background Blur | 36 img/sec | 88.6 img/sec |
| Face Detection | 16.4 img/sec | 57.3 img/sec |
| Horizon Detection | 0.48 Gpixels/sec | 2.53 Gpixels/sec |
| Edge Detection | 0.65 Gpixels/sec | 3.33 Gpixels/sec |
| Gaussian Blur | 0.53 Gpixels/sec | 2.55 Gpixels/sec |
| Feature Matching | 0.18 Gpixels/sec | 0.76 Gpixels/sec |
| Stereo Matching | 46.5 Gpixels/sec | 256.5 Gpixels/sec |
| Particle Physics | 2056.5 FPS | 7465.5 FPS |
| API | OpenCL | OpenCL |
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Passmark Graphics
G3D Mark Score
| G2D Mark | 654 | 493 |
| DirectX 11 | 47 FPS | 71 FPS |
| DirectX 12 | 23 FPS | 46 FPS |
| GPU Compute | 1321 Ops/s | 3868 Ops/s |
Blender
Blender GPU
Recent User Tests
Radeon 660M
No benchmark results yet
GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop
| Date | Benchmark | Result |
|---|---|---|
| 📘 2026-08-31 (bobschieffer) | Geekbench 6 OpenCL | 61418 |
| 📘 2026-08-29 (bobschieffer) | Cinebench 2024 | 3654 |
| 📘 2026-08-13 -> Kushagra_Aggarwal | Steel Nomad Light | 5735 |
| 📘 2026-01-26 (rar) | Geekbench 6 OpenCL | 68364 |
Artificial Intelligence Tests
Performance in machine learning and artificial intelligence tasksGeekBench 6 ML
GB6 ML Single Precision
GB6 ML Half Precision
GB6 ML Quantized
| Image Classification (SP) | 1465 | 4349 |
| Image Segmentation (HP) | 1706 | 11416 |
| Image Super Resolution (Q) | 4266 | 8973 |
| Face Detection (HP) | 5115 | 18927 |
| Pose Estimation (Q) | 12992 | 34631 |
| Text Classification (SP) | 1116 | 2269 |
| Machine Translation (HP) | 1859 | 3539 |
| Object Detection (SP) | 1574 | 5046 |
| Depth Estimation (Q) | 6538 | 15772 |
| Style Transfer (SP) | 26656 | 75260 |
| Framework | ONNX | ONNX |
| Backend | DirectML | DirectML |
Specifications
Technical specifications of Radeon 660M and GeForce RTX 3050 LaptopGeneral
| Vendor | Amd | Nvidia |
| Build | Integrated | Discrete |
| Released | January 1, 2022 | January 1, 2021 |
| Case | Laptop | Laptop |
| Purpose | Generic | Gaming |
| Segment | Entry-level | Mid-range |
| Architecture | RDNA 2.0 | Ampere |
| GPU Codename | Rembrandt | GA107 |
| Successor | - Radeon 8040S | - GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop |
| Recommended CPU | - AMD Ryzen 5 6600H or above | - |
| Used in CPUs | - AMD Ryzen 5 150 - AMD Ryzen 5 7535U - AMD Ryzen 5 7535HS - AMD Ryzen 5 Pro 6650U - AMD Ryzen 5 6600U - AMD Ryzen 5 6600H |
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Laptop GPU ranking (116th and 92nd place)
Graphics Processing Unit
| Base Clock | 400 MHz | 712-1530 MHz (configurable) |
| Boost Clock | 1800-1900 MHz (configurable) | 1057-1740 MHz (configurable) |
| Shading Units | 384 | 2048 |
| Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) | 24 | 64 |
| Render Output Units (ROPs) | 16 | 40 |
| Compute Units (Pipelines) | 6 | 16 |
| Tensor Cores | - | 64 |
| Ray-tracing Cores | 6 | 16 |
| L1 Cache | 128KB per cluster | 128KB per cluster |
| L2 Cache | 1024KB shared | 2MB shared |
| Instructions Per Cycle | 2 IPC | 2 IPC |
Raw Performance
| Pixel Fill Rate | 29-30 GPixel/s | 42-70 GPixel/s |
| Texture Fill Rate | 43-46 GTexel/s | 68-111 GTexel/s |
FLOPS (FP32)
Physical
| Interface | PCIe 4.0 x8 | PCIe 4.0 x16 |
| TGP | 15 W | 35-95 W (configurable) |
| Manufacturing | TSMC | Samsung |
| Fabrication Process | 6 nm | 8 nm |
| Die Size | 208 mm² | 200 mm² |
| Transistor Count | 13.1 billion | 8.7 billion |
| Transistor Density | 62.98 MTr/mm² | 43.5 MTr/mm² |
Memory
| Memory Type | System Shared | GDDR6 |
| Memory Size | - | 4 GB |
| Memory Clock | - | 1500 MHz |
| Effective Memory Speed | - | 12000 Mbps |
| Bus | - | 128-bit |
| ECC | No | No |
Memory Bandwidth
API
| DirectX | 12 | 12 |
| Vulkan | 1.2 | 1.2 |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| OpenCL | 2.0 | 3.0 |
| CUDA | - | 8.6 |
| Ray Tracing | Yes | Yes |
| DLSS | No | DLSS 2 |
| DisplayPort | - | 1.4a |
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