NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2050 Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2050 Mobile and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps 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 - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2050 Mobile

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2050 Mobile

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 7 month(s) later
582.9x more texture fill rate: 79.68 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 20 April 2017
Texture fill rate	79.68 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 6 GB 9Gbps

2x more core clock speed: 1506 MHz vs 735 MHz
Around 37% higher boost clock speed: 1709 MHz vs 1245 MHz
Around 50% higher maximum memory size: 6 GB vs 4 GB
5.2x more memory clock speed: 9028 MHz vs 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective

Core clock speed	1506 MHz vs 735 MHz
Boost clock speed	1709 MHz vs 1245 MHz
Maximum memory size	6 GB vs 4 GB
Memory clock speed	9028 MHz vs 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2050 Mobile
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps

Name	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2050 Mobile	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps
PassMark - G2D Mark	480
PassMark - G3D Mark	7753
Geekbench - OpenCL	43499
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	274

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2050 Mobile	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps
Essentials
Architecture	Ampere	Pascal
Code name	GA107	GP106
Launch date	17 Dec 2021	20 April 2017
Place in performance rating	348	not rated
Launch price (MSRP)		$299
Type		Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1245 MHz	1709 MHz
Core clock speed	735 MHz	1506 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	8 nm	16 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	159.4 GFLOPS (1:32)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	10.20 TFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	5.100 TFLOPS
Pipelines	2048	1280
Pixel fill rate	39.84 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	79.68 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	6 GB
Memory bandwidth	112.0 GB/s	216.6 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 bit	192 Bit
Memory clock speed	1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective	9028 MHz
Memory type	GDDR6	GDDR5