NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Max-Q vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jan 2023
Dec 2016
Generation
GeForce 40 Mobile
GeForce 10
Type
Mobile
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x8
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1140 MHz
1506 MHz
Boost Clock
1605 MHz
1708 MHz
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
2002 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
6GB
3GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR5
Memory Bus
96bit
192bit
Bandwidth
192.0GB/s
192.2GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
20
9
Shading Units
2560
1152
TMUs
80
72
ROPs
48
48
Tensor Cores
80
—
RT Cores
20
—
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
48 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
12 MB
1536 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
77.04 GPixel/s
81.98 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
128.4 GTexel/s
123.0 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
8.218 TFLOPS
61.49 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
8.218 TFLOPS
3.935 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
128.4 GFLOPS
123.0 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
AD107
GP104
GPU Variant
GN21-X2
GP104-140-KA-A1
Architecture
Ada Lovelace
Pascal
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
5 nm
16 nm
Transistors
18.9 billion
7.2 billion
Die Size
159 mm²
314 mm²
Board Design
TDP
35W
120W
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
None
1x 6-pin
Suggested PSU
—
300 W
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
3.0
Vulkan
1.3
1.3
CUDA
8.9
6.1
Shader Model
6.8
6.4
Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
—
3,863
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
—
1,771
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.