NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB and 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2060 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 160W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 's Advantages

Released 8 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 11% (1680MHz vs 1518MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 84.10GB/s)

1152 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB

2.332 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2060 +176%

6.451 TFLOPS

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB

10

GeForce RTX 2060 +140%

24

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB

20

GeForce RTX 2060 +170%

54

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB

31

GeForce RTX 2060 +161%

81

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB

16

GeForce RTX 2060 +168%

43

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB

30

GeForce RTX 2060 +153%

76

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB

38

GeForce RTX 2060 +189%

110

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB

29

GeForce RTX 2060 +75%

51

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB

65

GeForce RTX 2060 +1%

66

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB

92

GeForce RTX 2060 +58%

146

GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB

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GeForce RTX 2060

Graphics Card

May 2018

Release Date

Jan 2019

GeForce 10

Generation

GeForce 20

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1392 MHz

Base Clock

1365 MHz

1518 MHz

Boost Clock

1680 MHz

1752 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

96bit

Memory Bus

192bit

84.10GB/s

Bandwidth

336.0GB/s

Render Config

6

SM Count

30

-

Compute Units

-

768

Shading Units

1920

48

TMUs

120

24

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

240

-

RT Cores

30

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

3 MB

Theoretical Performance

36.43 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

80.64 GPixel/s

72.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

201.6 GTexel/s

36.43 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

12.90 TFLOPS

2.332 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.451 TFLOPS

72.86 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

201.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP107

GPU Name

TU106

GP107-301-K1-A1

GPU Variant

TU106-200A-KA-A1

Pascal

Architecture

Turing

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

12 nm

3.3 billion

Transistors

10.8 billion

132 mm²

Die Size

445 mm²

Board Design

75W

TDP

160W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 2x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

None

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

6.1

CUDA

7.5

6.4

Shader Model

6.6

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