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

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2050 Mobile 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. 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 Max-Q 6 GB

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2050 Mobile

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 5 month(s) later
673x more texture fill rate: 79.68 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	79.68 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 72% higher core clock speed: 1265 MHz vs 735 MHz
Around 19% higher boost clock speed: 1480 MHz vs 1245 MHz
Around 50% higher maximum memory size: 6 GB vs 4 GB
4.6x more memory clock speed: 8008 MHz vs 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective

Core clock speed	1265 MHz vs 735 MHz
Boost clock speed	1480 MHz vs 1245 MHz
Maximum memory size	6 GB vs 4 GB
Memory clock speed	8008 MHz vs 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2050 Mobile
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 6 GB

Name	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2050 Mobile	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 6 GB
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 Max-Q 6 GB
Essentials
Architecture	Ampere	Pascal
Code name	GA107	GP106
Launch date	17 Dec 2021	27 June 2017
Place in performance rating	348	not rated
Type		Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1245 MHz	1480 MHz
Core clock speed	735 MHz	1265 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	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	112.0 GB/s	192.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 bit	192 Bit
Memory clock speed	1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective	8008 MHz
Memory type	GDDR6	GDDR5
Technologies
CUDA