GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile vs GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile and 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile Advantages
Released 5 years and 7 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 19% (1755MHz vs 1480MHz)
1280 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (50W vs 80W)
GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 192.0GB/s)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile
+137%
8986
GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q
3789
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile
1788
GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q
+90%
3415
Blender
GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile
+734%
2836
GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q
340
OctaneBench
GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile
+322%
258
GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q
61
Graphics Card
Jan 2023
Release Date
Jun 2017
GeForce 40 Mobile
Generation
GeForce 10 Mobile
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 4.0 x8
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1455 MHz
Base Clock
1063 MHz
1755 MHz
Boost Clock
1480 MHz
2000 MHz
Memory Clock
2002 MHz
Memory
6GB
Memory Size
6GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR5
96bit
Memory Bus
192bit
192.0GB/s
Bandwidth
192.2GB/s
Render Config
20
SM Count
10
2560
Shading Units
1280
80
TMUs
80
48
ROPs
48
80
Tensor Cores
-
20
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SM)
12 MB
L2 Cache
1536 KB
Theoretical Performance
84.24 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
71.04 GPixel/s
140.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
118.4 GTexel/s
8.986 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
59.20 GFLOPS
8.986 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
3.789 TFLOPS
140.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
118.4 GFLOPS
Board Design
50W
TDP
80W
Portable Device Dependent
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
AD107
GPU Name
GP106
GN21-X2
GPU Variant
N17E-G1-A1
Ada Lovelace
Architecture
Pascal
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
5 nm
Process Size
16 nm
18.9 billion
Transistors
4.4 billion
159 mm²
Die Size
200 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
8.9
CUDA
6.1
6.8
Shader Model
6.4
