NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Full Specs

Summary

2,560 Shaders 2.57GHz	1,408 Shaders 1.78GHz
8GB GDDR6224GB/s	6GB GDDR5192GB/s
Peak·FP32·FP16 13.16 TFLOPS	Peak·FP32·FP16 5.03 TFLOPS
Form Factor PCIe Card	Form Factor PCIe Card
TDP 130W	TDP 120W
Power Connectors 1x 8-Pin	Power Connectors 1x 8-Pin

Highlights

Peak OPS

Peak OPS FP32 FP16 Tensor FP4 FP4 Tensor Sparse Tensor FP8-16 FP8-16 Tensor Sparse Tensor FP8-32 FP8-32 Tensor Sparse Tensor FP16-16 FP16-16 Tensor Sparse Tensor FP16-32 FP16-32 Tensor Sparse FP64 BF16 Tensor BF16 BF16 Tensor Sparse Tensor TF32 Tensor INT8 Memory Bandwidth TDP

GeForce RTX 5050421.1 TFLOPSFP4 Tensor Sparse

x41.88

GeForce GTX 166010.05 TFLOPSFP16

x1

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Theoretical Performance

Clock Speed2570MHz UC·Base·Boost·OC	Clock Speed1785MHz UC·Base·Boost·OC
Peak OPS 421.1 TFLOPSFP4 Tensor Sparse	Peak OPS 10.05 TFLOPSFP16
Tensor FP4 210.5 TFLOPS FP4 Tensor Sparse 421.1 TFLOPS	-
Tensor FP8-16 105.3 TFLOPS FP8-16 Tensor Sparse 210.5 TFLOPS Tensor FP8-32 52.63 TFLOPS FP8-32 Tensor Sparse 105.3 TFLOPS	-
Tensor FP16-16 52.63 TFLOPS FP16-16 Tensor Sparse 105.3 TFLOPS Tensor FP16-32 26.32 TFLOPS FP16-32 Tensor Sparse 52.63 TFLOPS	-
BF16 13.16 TFLOPS Tensor BF16 26.32 TFLOPS BF16 Tensor Sparse 52.63 TFLOPS	-
Tensor TF32 13.16 TFLOPS	Tensor TF32 -
FP32 13.16 TFLOPS	FP32 5.03 TFLOPS
FP64 205.6 GFLOPS	FP64 157.1 GFLOPS
Tensor INT8 105.3 TOPS	-
Ray 39.91 TOPS	Ray -
Pixel Rate 82.2 GPixel/s	Pixel Rate 85.7 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 205.6 GTexel/s	Texture Rate 157.1 GTexel/s

Core Config

Shaders 2,560 Shaders	Shaders 1,408 Shaders
TMUs 80 TMUs	TMUs 88 TMUs
ROPs 32 ROPs	ROPs 48 ROPs
Tensor Cores 80 T-Cores	Tensor Cores -
RT Cores 20 RT-Cores	RT Cores -
SMs 20 SMs	SMs 22 SMs

Clocks

Base Clock 2.31GHz	Base Clock 1.53GHz
Boost Clock 2.57GHz	Boost Clock 1.78GHz

Cache

L2 Cache 32.8MB shared

L2 Cache 1.5MB shared

Memory

8GB GDDR6	6GB GDDR5
Memory Bus 128-bit	Memory Bus 192-bit
Memory Speed 14GT/s	Memory Speed 8GT/s
Memory Bandwidth 224GB/s	Memory Bandwidth 192GB/s
ECC No	ECC No

Power & Thermals

TDP 130W	TDP 120W
Max Temp 87°C Max	Max Temp 95°C Max

Video Output

Multi-Monitor 4	Multi-Monitor 3
HDCP HDCP 2.3	HDCP HDCP 2.2

Ports

3x DisplayPort 2.1	-
-	1x DisplayPort 1.4
1x HDMI 2.1	-
-	1x HDMI 2.0
-	1x DVI-D Dual-Link

Encoder

Encoder Model NVENC 9

Encoder Model NVENC 7

Decoder

Decoder Model NVDEC 6

Decoder Model NVDEC 4

Card

Form Factor PCIe Card	Form Factor PCIe Card
Cooling Open-Air 2x Fans	Cooling Open-Air 1x Fan
Power Connectors 1x 8-Pin	Power Connectors 1x 8-Pin

Chip

Manufacturer NVIDIA	Manufacturer NVIDIA
Chip Designer NVIDIA	Chip Designer NVIDIA
Architecture Blackwell	Architecture Turing
Family GeForce 50	Family GeForce 16
Branding	Branding
Codename NV197	Codename NV168
Chip Variant -	Chip Variant TU116-250-KA-A1
Market Segment Desktop	Market Segment Desktop
Release Date Jun 24, 2025	Release Date Mar 14, 2019

Fabrication

Foundry TSMC	Foundry TSMC
Fabrication Node 4NP	Fabrication Node 12FFN
Die Size -	Die Size 284mm²
Transistor Count -	Transistor Count 6.6 Billion
Transistor Density -	Transistor Density 23.24 MTr/mm²

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