Component comparison

GeForce RTX 5050 vs GeForce GTX 1660 Ti

GeForce RTX 5050 vs GeForce GTX 1660 Ti — detailed GPU comparison: performance, gaming FPS, specifications.

Advantages

A GeForce RTX 5050
  • + Release year (+6)
  • + VRAM (GB) (+2 GB)
  • + Bandwidth (GB/s) (+32 GB/s)
  • + TGP / TDP (W) (+35 W)
  • + Lithography (nm) (-9 nm)
  • + Transistors (M) (+10,300M)
  • + Die size (mm²) (+135 mm²)
  • + CUDA cores (+1024)
  • + FP32 performance (TFLOPS) (+9.07 TFLOPS)
  • + Texture fill rate (GTexel/s) (+35.90 GTexel/s)
  • + PassMark (overall) (+1449)
B GeForce GTX 1660 Ti
  • + Memory bus (bit) (+64 bit)
  • + TMUs (+16)
  • + ROPs (+16)
  • + Pixel fill rate (GPixel/s) (+2.66 GPixel/s)
  • + Energy efficiency (+0.6)
  • + Normalized score (+22.3)

Detailed spec comparison

Spec Component A
GeForce RTX 5050
Component B
GeForce GTX 1660 Ti
Release year 2025 (+6) 2019
VRAM (GB) 8 GB (+2 GB) 6 GB
Memory type GDDR6 GDDR6
Memory clock (MHz) — 1500 MHz
Bandwidth (GB/s) 320 GB/s (+32 GB/s) 288 GB/s
Memory bus (bit) 128 bit 192 bit (+64 bit)
TGP / TDP (W) 115 W (+35 W) 80 W
Lithography (nm) 3 nm (-9 nm) 12 nm
Transistors (M) 16,900M (+10,300M) 6,600M
Die size (mm²) 149 mm² (+135 mm²) 284 mm²
Base clock (MHz) — —
Boost clock (MHz) — —
CUDA cores 2,560 (+1024) 1,536
TMUs 80 96 (+16)
ROPs 32 48 (+16)
RT cores 20 —
Tensor cores 80 —
FP32 performance (TFLOPS) 13.17 TFLOPS (+9.07 TFLOPS) 4.10 TFLOPS
Pixel fill rate (GPixel/s) 82.30 GPixel/s 84.96 GPixel/s (+2.66 GPixel/s)
Texture fill rate (GTexel/s) 205.80 GTexel/s (+35.90 GTexel/s) 169.90 GTexel/s
Energy efficiency 24.3 24.9 (+0.6)
PassMark (overall) 14,067 (+1449) 12,618
3DMark Time Spy — 5,659
3DMark Fire Strike — 14,818
Geekbench OpenCL — 60,911
Geekbench Vulkan — 58,130
Normalized score 41.3 63.7 (+22.3)

Only in component A

DLSS ReBAR ray_tracing

In both

CUDA

FPS in games (1080p)

Game GeForce RTX 5050 GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Delta
CS:GO 240 FPS 240 FPS ≈
GTA V 140 FPS 140 FPS ≈
Overwatch 240 FPS 240 FPS ≈
PUBG 140 FPS 140 FPS ≈

Specs from public sources (PassMark, Geekbench). FPS measured at 1080p medium settings.

Based on the comparison: GeForce RTX 5050 wins 11 of the comparable criteria. The choice depends on your use case.

🤔 How to choose

Universal advice for any use case.

  • Reliability vs price: reliability (median 50) ↔ price (median 385.1).
  • Weight vs CPU: mobility (median 48) ↔ overall performance (median 49.8).
  • Upgradeability vs battery: upgradability (median 50) ↔ battery life (median 2.8).