NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Max-Q vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 (Laptop)

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Max-Q and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 (Laptop) 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 - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), 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.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Max-Q

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 9 year(s) 0 month(s) later
  • 961.1x more texture fill rate: 128.4 GTexel/s vs 133.6 GTexel / s
  • 2x more pipelines: 2560 vs 1280
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 4 nm vs 16 nm
  • Around 41% lower typical power consumption: 85 Watt vs 120 Watt
Launch date 2023 vs 15 August 2016
Texture fill rate 128.4 GTexel/s vs 133.6 GTexel / s
Pipelines 2560 vs 1280
Manufacturing process technology 4 nm vs 16 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 85 Watt vs 120 Watt

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 (Laptop)

  • Around 32% higher core clock speed: 1506 MHz vs 1140 MHz
  • Around 6% higher boost clock speed: 1708 MHz vs 1605 MHz
  • 4.6x more memory clock speed: 8008 MHz vs 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective
Core clock speed 1506 MHz vs 1140 MHz
Boost clock speed 1708 MHz vs 1605 MHz
Memory clock speed 8008 MHz vs 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Max-Q
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 (Laptop)

Name NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Max-Q NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 (Laptop)
PassMark - G3D Mark 8160
PassMark - G2D Mark 444
Geekbench - OpenCL 31098
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 111.55
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 1371.266
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 8.49
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 19.803
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 509.222
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 12645
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3654
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3359
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 12645
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3654
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3359
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 3677

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Max-Q NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 (Laptop)

Essentials

Architecture Ada Lovelace Pascal
Code name AD107 GP106B
Launch date 2023 15 August 2016
Place in performance rating not rated 385
Launch price (MSRP) $237.11
Price now $229.99
Type Laptop
Value for money (0-100) 49.49

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1605 MHz 1708 MHz
Core clock speed 1140 MHz 1506 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 4 nm 16 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 128.4 GFLOPS (1:64)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 8.218 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 8.218 TFLOPS
Pipelines 2560 1280
Pixel fill rate 51.36 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 128.4 GTexel/s 133.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 85 Watt 120 Watt
CUDA cores 1280
Floating-point performance 4,275 gflops
Maximum GPU temperature 94 °C
Transistor count 4,400 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors Portable Device Dependent DP 1.43, HDMI 2.0b, Dual Link-DVI
G-SYNC support
HDCP
Multi monitor support

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Form factor IGP
Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors None
Bus support PCIe 3.0
Laptop size large

API support

DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2) 12.0 (12_1)
OpenCL 3.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.5
Shader Model 6.7
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 6 GB 6 GB
Memory bandwidth 168.0 GB/s 192 GB / s
Memory bus width 96 bit 192 Bit
Memory clock speed 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective 8008 MHz
Memory type GDDR6 GDDR5
Shared memory 0

Technologies

3D Vision
Ansel
CUDA
DSR
GameStream
GPU Boost
Multi Monitor
Multi-Projection
ShadowWorks
Surround
Virtual Reality
VR Ready