NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2077 points

4302 points

107% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

43 FPS

104 FPS

60 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

34 FPS

53 FPS

19 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

27 FPS

76 FPS

48 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

27 FPS

41 FPS

15 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

370.89 points

2581.07 points

595% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

32365 points

75551 points

133% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

30916 points

75827 points

145% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1708 MHz

17% slightly higher core clock speed

1455 MHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

120 W

50 W

139% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

205th of 586

118th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2023 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.6

GeForce GTX 1060 vs GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 1060 in gaming.

The GeForce GTX 1060 has a slightly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop has a significantly lower TDP at 50 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1060 at 120 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop over the GeForce GTX 1060.