GeForce RTX 4050 vs RTX 2060 Max-Q Refresh

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot rated124
Place by popularitynot in top-10044
Power efficiencyno data25.71
ArchitectureTuring (2018−2022)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameTU106BAD107
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date29 January 2019 (5 years ago)2023 (1 year ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores19202560
Core clock speed960 MHz2505 MHz
Boost clock speed1200 MHz2640 MHz
Number of transistors10,800 million18,900 million
Manufacturing process technology12 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)115 Watt100 Watt
Texture fill rate144.0211.2
Floating-point processing power4.608 TFLOPS13.52 TFLOPS
ROPs4832
TMUs12080
Tensor Cores240120
Ray Tracing Cores3018

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x8
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNone1x 12-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR6GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount6 GB6 GB
Memory bus width192 Bit96 Bit
Memory clock speed1353 MHz2250 MHz
Memory bandwidth259.8 GB/s216.0 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display ConnectorsNo outputs1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI-+

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.56.7
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.23.0
Vulkan1.2.1401.3
CUDA7.58.9

Pros & cons summary


Chip lithography 12 nm 5 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 115 Watt 100 Watt

RTX 4050 has a 140% more advanced lithography process, and 15% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q Refresh and GeForce RTX 4050. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q Refresh is a notebook card while GeForce RTX 4050 is a desktop one.


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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q Refresh
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