GeForce RTX 2050 vs GeForce GTX 1060

GeForce RTX 2050
Memory: 4096Mb GDDR6DESKTOP
Release date: UNRELEASED
GeForce RTX 2050
GeForce GTX 1060
Memory: 6144Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 10 Jul 2016
GeForce GTX 1060

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce RTX 2050

Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports DirectX Raytracing (DXR)
Supports Deep Learning Super-Sampling (DLSS)

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 1060

Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce RTX 2050

HWBench recommends GeForce RTX 2050

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce RTX 2050GeForce GTX 1060
GPU NameTU107 (TU107)vsGP106 (GP106-400-A1)
Fab Process12 nmvs16 nm
Die Size0 mm²vs200 mm²
Transistorsunknownvs4,400 million
Shaders896vs1280
Compute Units14vs10
Core clock1515 MHzvs1506 MHz
ROPs32vs48
TMUs56vs80

Memory Configuration

GeForce RTX 2050GeForce GTX 1060
Memory TypeGDDR6vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs192 bit
Memory Speed1750 MHz
14000 MHz effective
vs2002 MHz
8008 MHz effective
Memory Size4096 Mbvs6144 Mb

Additional details

GeForce RTX 2050GeForce GTX 1060
TDP120 wattsvs120 watts
Release DateUNRELEASEDvs10 Jul 2016

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce RTX 2050
    54.24 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 1060
    72.30 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce RTX 2050
    94.92 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 1060
    120.50 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce RTX 2050
    224.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 1060
    192.20 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce RTX 2050
    3037.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 1060
    3855.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better