GeForce GTX 1050 vs GeForce RTX 2060

Intro

Compare that to the GeForce RTX 2060, which makes use of a 12 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core frequency at 1365 MHz. The GDDR6 RAM works at a speed of 1750 MHz on this specific card. It features 1920 SPUs along with 120 Texture Address Units and 48 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1050		75 Watts
GeForce RTX 2060		160 Watts
	Difference: 85 Watts (113%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the GeForce RTX 2060 should in theory be quite a bit better than the GeForce GTX 1050 in general. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2060		344064 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1050		114688 MB/sec
	Difference: 229376 (200%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 2060 will be quite a bit (about 202%) faster with regards to AF than the GeForce GTX 1050. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2060		163800 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1050		54160 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 109640 (202%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce RTX 2060 should be a lot (approximately 51%) better at AA than the GeForce GTX 1050, and also will be able to handle higher screen resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2060		65520 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 1050		43328 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 22192 (51%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip can possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.