NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2050 Max-Q vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 6 GB

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2050 Max-Q and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 6 GB videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2050 Max-Q

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 6 GB

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2050 Max-Q

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 5 month(s) later
624.3x more texture fill rate: 73.92 GTexel/s vs 118.4 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
2.7x lower typical power consumption: 30 Watt vs 80 Watt

Launch date	17 Dec 2021 vs 27 June 2017
Texture fill rate	73.92 GTexel/s vs 118.4 GTexel / s
Pipelines	2048 vs 1280
Manufacturing process technology	8 nm vs 16 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	30 Watt vs 80 Watt

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 6 GB

Around 52% higher core clock speed: 1265 MHz vs 832 MHz
Around 28% higher boost clock speed: 1480 MHz vs 1155 MHz
Around 50% higher maximum memory size: 6 GB vs 4 GB
5.3x more memory clock speed: 8008 MHz vs 1500 MHz, 12 Gbps effective

Core clock speed	1265 MHz vs 832 MHz
Boost clock speed	1480 MHz vs 1155 MHz
Maximum memory size	6 GB vs 4 GB
Memory clock speed	8008 MHz vs 1500 MHz, 12 Gbps effective

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2050 Max-Q	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 6 GB
Essentials
Architecture	Ampere	Pascal
Code name	GA107	GP106
Launch date	17 Dec 2021	27 June 2017
Place in performance rating	not rated	not rated
Type		Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1155 MHz	1480 MHz
Core clock speed	832 MHz	1265 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	118.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	30 Watt	80 Watt
Floating-point performance		3,789 gflops
Transistor count		4,400 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI 2.1, 2x DisplayPort 1.4a
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Height	35 mm, 1.4 inches
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x8	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	229 mm, 9 inches
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
Width	113 mm, 4.4 inches
API support
DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenCL	3.0
OpenGL	4.6
Shader Model	6.7
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	6 GB
Memory bandwidth	96.00 GB/s	192.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 bit	192 Bit
Memory clock speed	1500 MHz, 12 Gbps effective	8008 MHz
Memory type	GDDR6	GDDR5
Technologies
CUDA