NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 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 - 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

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 5 month(s) later
  • Around 84% higher core clock speed: 2505 MHz vs 1365 MHz
  • Around 57% higher boost clock speed: 2640 MHz vs 1680 MHz
  • Around 33% higher pipelines: 2560 vs 1920
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 4 nm vs 12 nm
  • Around 7% lower typical power consumption: 150 Watt vs 160 Watt
  • Around 33% higher maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 6 GB
Launch date 2023 vs 7 January 2019
Core clock speed 2505 MHz vs 1365 MHz
Boost clock speed 2640 MHz vs 1680 MHz
Pipelines 2560 vs 1920
Manufacturing process technology 4 nm vs 12 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 150 Watt vs 160 Watt
Maximum memory size 8 GB vs 6 GB

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060

  • 6.2x more memory clock speed: 14000 MHz vs 2250 MHz, 18 Gbps effective
Memory clock speed 14000 MHz vs 2250 MHz, 18 Gbps effective

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060

Name NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060
PassMark - G3D Mark 14119
PassMark - G2D Mark 746
Geekbench - OpenCL 71402
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 217.04
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 3119.736
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 21.707
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 133.975
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 1141.283
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 20094
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 7442
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 6714
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 20094
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 7442
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 6714
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 1242

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060

Essentials

Architecture Ada Lovelace Turing
Code name AD106 TU106
Launch date 2023 7 January 2019
Place in performance rating not rated 161
Launch price (MSRP) $349
Price now $349.99
Type Desktop
Value for money (0-100) 62.74

Technical info

Boost clock speed 2640 MHz 1680 MHz
Core clock speed 2505 MHz 1365 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 4 nm 12 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 1920
Pixel fill rate 84.48 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 211.2 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 150 Watt 160 Watt
Transistor count 10,800 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-C
DisplayPort count 2
DisplayPort support
HDMI

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 1x 8-pin
Length 229 mm

API support

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

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 6 GB
Memory bandwidth 288.0 GB/s
Memory bus width 128 bit 192 Bit
Memory clock speed 2250 MHz, 18 Gbps effective 14000 MHz
Memory type GDDR6 GDDR6