GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q Refresh vs GTX 1050 Ti

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking328not rated
Place by popularity5not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation13.70no data
Power efficiency15.09no data
ArchitecturePascal (2016−2021)Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code nameGP107TU106B
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date25 October 2016 (8 years ago)29 January 2019 (5 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$139 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores7681920
Core clock speed1291 MHz960 MHz
Boost clock speed1392 MHz1200 MHz
Number of transistors3,300 million10,800 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)75 Watt115 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature97 °Cno data
Texture fill rate66.82144.0
Floating-point processing power2.138 TFLOPS4.608 TFLOPS
ROPs3248
TMUs48120
Tensor Coresno data240
Ray Tracing Coresno data30

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 3.0 x16
Length145 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectorsNoneNone

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 typeGDDR5GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount4 GB6 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit192 Bit
Memory clock speed7008 MHz1353 MHz
Memory bandwidth112 GB/s259.8 GB/s
Shared memory--

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 Connectors1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPortNo outputs
HDMI+-
G-SYNC support+-

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

VR Ready+no data
Ansel+no data

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_1)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.46.5
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.21.2
Vulkan1.2.1311.2.140
CUDA+7.5

Pros & cons summary


Recency 25 October 2016 29 January 2019
Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 6 GB
Chip lithography 14 nm 12 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 75 Watt 115 Watt

GTX 1050 Ti has 53.3% lower power consumption.

RTX 2060 Max-Q Refresh, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 2 years, a 50% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 16.7% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GTX 1050 Ti and GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q Refresh. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce GTX 1050 Ti is a desktop card while GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q Refresh is a notebook one.


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