GeForce GTX 1050 vs GeForce GTX 660 Ti

GeForce GTX 1050
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 25 Oct 2016
GeForce GTX 1050
GeForce GTX 660 Ti
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 16 Aug 2012
GeForce GTX 660 Ti

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 1050

75 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 660 Ti .
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 Ti

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications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

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 1050GeForce GTX 660 Ti
GPU NameGP107 (GP107-300-A1)vsGK104 (GK104-300-KD-A2)
Fab Process14 nmvs28 nm
Die Size132 mm²vs294 mm²
Transistors3,300 millionvs3,540 million
Shaders640vs1344
Compute Units5vs7
Core clock1354 MHzvs915 MHz
ROPs32vs24
TMUs40vs112

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 1050GeForce GTX 660 Ti
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 Ti
TDP75 wattsvs150 watts
Release Date25 Oct 2016vs16 Aug 2012

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1050
    43.30 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 660 Ti
    25.60 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1050
    54.20 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 660 Ti
    102.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

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

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 1050
    1733.10 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 660 Ti
    2460.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better