GeForce GTX 1050 vs GeForce GTX 660

GeForce GTX 1050
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 25 Oct 2016
GeForce GTX 1050
GeForce GTX 660
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 6 Sep 2012
GeForce GTX 660

Summary

Gaming performance index

  • GeForce GTX 1050
    156%
  • GeForce GTX 660
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 1050

56% higher gaming performance.
65 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 660 .
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 660

Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX 1050

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 1050

The GeForce GTX 1050 is the better performing card based on the game benchmark suite used (2 combinations of games and resolutions).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 1050GeForce GTX 660
GPU NameGP107 (GP107-300-A1)vsGK106 (GK106-400-A1)
Fab Process14 nmvs28 nm
Die Size132 mm²vs221 mm²
Transistors3,300 millionvs2,540 million
Shaders640vs960
Compute Units5vs5
Core clock1354 MHzvs980 MHz
ROPs32vs24
TMUs40vs80

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 1050GeForce GTX 660
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs192 bit
Memory Speed1752 MHz
7008 MHz effective
vs1502 MHz
6008 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 1050GeForce GTX 660
TDP75 wattsvs140 watts
Release Date25 Oct 2016vs6 Sep 2012

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1050
    43.30 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 660
    19.60 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1050
    54.20 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 660
    78.40 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 1050
    112.10 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 660
    144.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 1050
    1733.10 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 660
    1882.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Game benchmarks

Grand Theft Auto V

DX11, Max Details, 16:1 AF, 2xMSAA

  • GeForce GTX 1050
    58
  • GeForce GTX 660
    37

FPS (higher is better)

Grand Theft Auto V

DX11, Max Details, 16:1 AF, 2xMSAA

  • GeForce GTX 1050
    39
  • GeForce GTX 660
    25

FPS (higher is better)