GeForce RTX 4050 Max-Q vs GTX 1660 Ti

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking160not rated
Place by popularity31not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation44.24no data
Power efficiency19.13no data
ArchitectureTuring (2018−2022)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameTU116AD107
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date22 February 2019 (5 years ago)3 January 2023 (1 year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$279 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores15362560
Core clock speed1500 MHz1140 MHz
Boost clock speed1770 MHz1605 MHz
Number of transistors6,600 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology12 nm4 nm
Power consumption (TDP)120 Watt35 Watt
Texture fill rate169.9128.4
Floating-point processing power5.437 TFLOPS8.218 TFLOPS
ROPs4832
TMUs9680
Tensor Coresno data80
Ray Tracing Coresno data20

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
Length229 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors1x 8-pinNone

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR6GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount6 GB6 GB
Memory bus width192 Bit96 Bit
Memory clock speed1500 MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth288.0 GB/s168.0 GB/s
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPortPortable Device Dependent
HDMI+-

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 (12_1)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.56.7
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.23.0
Vulkan1.2.1311.3
CUDA7.58.9

Pros & cons summary


Recency 22 February 2019 3 January 2023
Chip lithography 12 nm 4 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 120 Watt 35 Watt

RTX 4050 Max-Q has an age advantage of 3 years, a 200% more advanced lithography process, and 242.9% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GTX 1660 Ti and GeForce RTX 4050 Max-Q. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce GTX 1660 Ti is a desktop card while GeForce RTX 4050 Max-Q is a notebook one.


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