NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2050 Max-Q vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2050 Max-Q and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2050 Max-Q

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2050 Max-Q

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 11 month(s) later
540.7x more texture fill rate: 73.92 GTexel/s vs 136.7 GTexel / s
Around 60% higher pipelines: 2048 vs 1280
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 8 nm vs 16 nm
4x lower typical power consumption: 30 Watt vs 120 Watt

Launch date	17 Dec 2021 vs 26 December 2017
Texture fill rate	73.92 GTexel/s vs 136.7 GTexel / s
Pipelines	2048 vs 1280
Manufacturing process technology	8 nm vs 16 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	30 Watt vs 120 Watt

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

Around 81% higher core clock speed: 1506 MHz vs 832 MHz
Around 48% higher boost clock speed: 1709 MHz vs 1155 MHz
Around 25% higher maximum memory size: 5 GB vs 4 GB
5.3x more memory clock speed: 8008 MHz vs 1500 MHz, 12 Gbps effective

Core clock speed	1506 MHz vs 832 MHz
Boost clock speed	1709 MHz vs 1155 MHz
Maximum memory size	5 GB vs 4 GB
Memory clock speed	8008 MHz vs 1500 MHz, 12 Gbps effective

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2050 Max-Q
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

Name	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2050 Max-Q	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB
PassMark - G3D Mark		9056
PassMark - G2D Mark		611
Geekbench - OpenCL		35108
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		10818
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3417
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3358
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		10818
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3417
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3358
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		3917

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2050 Max-Q	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB
Essentials
Architecture	Ampere	Pascal
Code name	GA107	GP106
Launch date	17 Dec 2021	26 December 2017
Place in performance rating	not rated	303
Type		Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1155 MHz	1709 MHz
Core clock speed	832 MHz	1506 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	8 nm	16 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	147.8 GFLOPS (1:32)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	9.462 TFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	4.731 TFLOPS
Pipelines	2048	1280
Pixel fill rate	36.96 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	73.92 GTexel/s	136.7 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	30 Watt	120 Watt
Floating-point performance		4,375 gflops
Transistor count		4,400 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI 2.1, 2x DisplayPort 1.4a	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Height	35 mm, 1.4 inches
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x8	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	229 mm, 9 inches	250 mm
Supplementary power connectors	None	1x 6-pin
Width	113 mm, 4.4 inches
API support
DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)	12.0 (12_1)
OpenCL	3.0
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
Shader Model	6.7
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	5 GB
Memory bandwidth	96.00 GB/s	160.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 bit	160 Bit
Memory clock speed	1500 MHz, 12 Gbps effective	8008 MHz
Memory type	GDDR6	GDDR5