NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile 6 GB

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile 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: GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 8 year(s) 10 month(s) later
  • Around 78% higher core clock speed: 2505 MHz vs 1404 MHz
  • Around 58% higher boost clock speed: 2640 MHz vs 1670 MHz
  • 1580.8x more texture fill rate: 211.2 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 33% higher maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 6 GB
Launch date 2023 vs 15 August 2016
Core clock speed 2505 MHz vs 1404 MHz
Boost clock speed 2640 MHz vs 1670 MHz
Texture fill rate 211.2 GTexel/s vs 133.6 GTexel / s
Pipelines 2560 vs 1280
Manufacturing process technology 4 nm vs 16 nm
Maximum memory size 8 GB vs 6 GB

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile 6 GB

  • Around 88% lower typical power consumption: 80 Watt vs 150 Watt
  • 3.6x more memory clock speed: 8008 MHz vs 2250 MHz, 18 Gbps effective
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 80 Watt vs 150 Watt
Memory clock speed 8008 MHz vs 2250 MHz, 18 Gbps effective

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile 6 GB

Name NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile 6 GB
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 12021
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 12021
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 5569
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 5569
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 5034
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 5034

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile 6 GB

Essentials

Architecture Ada Lovelace Pascal
Code name AD106 GP106
Launch date 2023 15 August 2016
Place in performance rating not rated 278
Type Desktop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 2640 MHz 1670 MHz
Core clock speed 2505 MHz 1404 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 4 nm 16 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 211.2 GFLOPS (1:64)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 13.52 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 13.52 TFLOPS
Pipelines 2560 1280
Pixel fill rate 84.48 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 211.2 GTexel/s 133.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 150 Watt 80 Watt
Floating-point performance 4,275 gflops
Transistor count 4,400 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Form factor Dual-slot
Interface PCIe 4.0 x8 PCIe 3.0 x16
Recommended system power (PSU) 450 Watt
Supplementary power connectors 1x 12-pin

API support

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

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 6 GB
Memory bandwidth 288.0 GB/s 192.2 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 bit 192 Bit
Memory clock speed 2250 MHz, 18 Gbps effective 8008 MHz
Memory type GDDR6 GDDR5

Technologies

CUDA