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GTX 1660 SUPER vs RTX 3050
Specs from the chip makers' datasheets; prices from the live Compute Cafe panel, refreshed hourly. Every rate is an on-demand published price with a source receipt.
CHEAPEST GTX 1660 SUPER
$0.040/hr
QuickPod · median $0.04 · 1 providers
CHEAPEST RTX 3050
$0.030/hr
Salad · median $0.03 · 1 providers
CHEAPER RIGHT NOW
RTX 3050
live panel, 2026-09-27
| GTX 1660 SUPER | RTX 3050 | |
|---|---|---|
| MAKER | NVIDIA | NVIDIA |
| ARCHITECTURE | Turing | Ampere |
| LAUNCHED | 2019 | 2022 |
| MEMORY | 6 GB GDDR6 | 8 GB GDDR6 |
| MEMORY BANDWIDTH | 336 GB/s | 224 GB/s |
| TENSOR COMPUTE | 5 TFLOPS FP32; no tensor cores | 9.1 TFLOPS FP32; 3rd-gen tensor cores |
| POWER DRAW | 125 W | 130 W |
| INTERCONNECT | PCIe 3.0 x16 | PCIe 4.0 x8 |
HOW TO CHOOSE
GTX 1660 SUPER vs RTX 3050
The 3050 adds tensor cores and 2 GB more memory - the minimum for any ML work.
RTX 3050 vs GTX 1660 SUPER
Same price floor, but the 3050's tensor cores make it the only one of the two usable for ML. For transcoding they are equivalent.
Workload fit
GTX 1660 SUPER: video transcoding, game streaming and vdi, ml inference. RTX 3050: learning and dev, 7b inference, serving or training.
GTX 1660 SUPER VS RTX 3050 - FAQ
Which is cheaper to rent, GTX 1660 SUPER or RTX 3050?
By today's published on-demand rates: GTX 1660 SUPER starts at $0.040/GPU/hr (median $0.04, 1 providers) and RTX 3050 starts at $0.030/GPU/hr (median $0.03, 1 providers). The cheapest live listing is the RTX 3050 at Salad. Figures recompute from the panel on every refresh.
GTX 1660 SUPER or RTX 3050 - which should I rent?
GTX 1660 SUPER: The 1660 Super is a gaming card from before tensor cores reached this price - it has none. RTX 3050: The 3050 is the cheapest Ampere card with tensor cores - the minimum hardware for modern ML frameworks' fast paths. The side-by-side spec table and live price rows above give the full picture.
Where can I rent GTX 1660 SUPER and RTX 3050?
1 providers publish GTX 1660 SUPER rates and 1 publish RTX 3050 rates on Compute Cafe. Every row links to the provider's own published price - committed-use and reserved rates are excluded.
Full pricing: GTX 1660 SUPER · RTX 3050 · all comparisons