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GeForce RTX 5050 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 — Specs & Performance Compared

Verdict: The GeForce RTX 5050 is ahead of the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 on all 5 shared benchmarks on file, by 39% to 120%, including 80% in 3DMark Time Spy (9,954 vs 5,521). On qwen2.5:7b, the GeForce RTX 5050 generates 29.0 tokens/s (per llama.cpp GitHub Discussions) against 18.2 for the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 (per DatabaseMart), best community run on file for each.

Side-by-side GPU comparison of the GeForce RTX 5050 and the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660. Specs, synthetic benchmarks, AI inference tok/s, and Amazon availability below; each column header links to that part's benchmark page.

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Where to buy

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Specs side-by-side

SpecGeForce RTX 5050NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660
vram gb 86
vram type —GDDR5
tdp w —120
cuda cores —1408

Synthetic benchmarks

Each row says whether a higher or a lower number is better (ranks and times are lower-is-better). Scores come from 3DMark, Tweaktown, Overclocking.com, Gizbot, Club386, Notebookcheck, CpuTronic, TopCPU.net, Legit Reviews, TechPowerUp and GPU-Monkey; each row links its sources, and where they differ the cell shows their median. Empty cells mean we don't yet have that benchmark on file for the SKU.

BenchmarkGeForce RTX 5050NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660
3DMark Fire Strike (higher is better)
Source: 3DMark, Tweaktown		 27,162 points12,365 points
3DMark Port Royal (higher is better)
Source: Tweaktown, Overclocking.com, 3DMark		 6,128 points—
3DMark Solar Bay (higher is better)
Source: Gizbot		 45,781 points—
3DMark Speed Way (higher is better)
Source: Tweaktown, Club386, Overclocking.com, Notebookcheck		 2,454 points—
3DMark Steel Nomad (higher is better)
Source: 3DMark, Tweaktown, Club386, Overclocking.com, CpuTronic, Notebookcheck		 2,287 points1,047 points
3DMark Steel Nomad DX12 Graphics Score (higher is better)
Source: 3DMark		 2,323 points—
3DMark Steel Nomad Light (higher is better)
Source: Notebookcheck		 10,057 points—
3DMark Time Spy (higher is better)
Source: TopCPU.net, Tweaktown, CpuTronic, 3DMark, Gizbot, Notebookcheck, Legit Reviews		 9,954 points5,521 points
3DMark Time Spy GPU (higher is better)
Source: TechPowerUp		 21,500 pts—
3DMark Time Spy Graphics (higher is better)
Source: GPU-Monkey		 —5,395 points
Blender (GPU render) (higher is better)
Source: Club386		 2,846 samples/min—
Blender 3.3 Classroom (CUDA) (higher is better)
Source: Club386		 2,846 points—

AI inference (tokens/sec)

Top community-reported tokens-per-second results for popular LLMs whose weights fit the card's memory, each linked to its source. See the per-SKU benchmark page for the full set including quantization and prompt length.

GeForce RTX 5050

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660

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Quick answers

Which is faster, the GeForce RTX 5050 or the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660?

The GeForce RTX 5050 is ahead of the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 on all 5 shared benchmarks on file, by 39% to 120%, including 80% in 3DMark Time Spy (9,954 vs 5,521).

Which is better for running local LLMs?

On qwen2.5:7b, the GeForce RTX 5050 generates 29.0 tokens/s (per llama.cpp GitHub Discussions) against 18.2 for the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 (per DatabaseMart), best community run on file for each.

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