GeForce RTX 2060 Mobile vs 2050 Mobile
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Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060 Mobile
TU106 (N18E-G1-B)
We compared two discrete laptop gaming GPUs: the GeForce RTX 2060 Mobile 6 GB with 30 pipelines and 1920 shaders against the 2 years and 11 months newer RTX 2050 Mobile 4 GB that utilizes 16 pipelines and 2048 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.
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Review
Gaming
Performance in DirectX, OpenCL, and Vulkan games
Workstation
Perf. in 3D modeling, video editing and rendering apps
AI/ML
Capabilities for machine learning and AI-related tasks
Energy Efficiency
Power consumption efficiency in different scenarios
NanoReview Final Score
Overall video card score
Key differences
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 2060 Mobile
- Performs significantly better (up to 47%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
- Shows 60% higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 40 vs 25 FPS
- Includes 2 GB more video memory
- Features 176 more tensor cores for effective ML and AI workloads
- Has 2.4x higher memory bandwidth: 264 vs 112 GB/s
- Supports Nvidia DLSS 2 technology
- Achieves 72% more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (73K vs 42K)
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 2050 Mobile
- Manufactured using a more efficient 8 nm process technology
- 30% higher maximum theoretical performance (6 vs 4.6 TFLOPS)
Gaming Performance
Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutionsGames
| Forza Horizon 5 | 88 52 42 25 |
66 38 28 18 |
| The Witcher 3 | 85 65 45 22 |
49 40 24 14 |
| Counter-Strike 2 | 134 92 68 28 |
87 61 41 17 |
| Far Cry 6 | 71 62 45 24 |
48 45 34 15 |
| Hogwarts Legacy | 45 38 27 13 |
29 22 17 9 |
| CoD: Modern Warfare III | 56 48 34 20 |
37 32 21 15 |
| Ghost of Tsushima | 41 31 26 13 |
27 20 15 9 |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 45 40 22 10 |
28 24 14 - |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 75 71 47 26 |
51 50 31 15 |
| 1080p High | 71 | 47 |
| 1080p Ultra | 55 | 37 |
| 1440p Ultra | 40 | 25 |
| 4K Ultra | 20 | 13 |
| Margin of Error | Low | Low |
Benchmarks
Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps3D Mark
Steel Nomad Lite Score
| Time Spy | 5958 | 3932 |
| Solar Bay | 25742 | 19073 |
| Port Royal | 3328 | 413 |
| Fire Strike | 15852 | 10472 |
| Wild Life Extreme | 11600 | 7222 |
| Night Raid | 62045 | 45365 |
GeekBench 6 OpenCL
GB6 Compute Score
| Background Blur | 150.7 img/sec | 73.3 img/sec |
| Face Detection | 75.5 img/sec | 39.7 img/sec |
| Horizon Detection | 2.83 Gpixels/sec | 1.65 Gpixels/sec |
| Edge Detection | 3.68 Gpixels/sec | 2.13 Gpixels/sec |
| Gaussian Blur | 4.08 Gpixels/sec | 2.06 Gpixels/sec |
| Feature Matching | 0.89 Gpixels/sec | 0.55 Gpixels/sec |
| Stereo Matching | 257.7 Gpixels/sec | 191.1 Gpixels/sec |
| Particle Physics | 9069.6 FPS | 5921.5 FPS |
| API | OpenCL | OpenCL |
Passmark Graphics
G3D Mark Score
| G2D Mark | 540 | 479 |
| DirectX 11 | 96 FPS | 47 FPS |
| DirectX 12 | 39 FPS | 42 FPS |
| GPU Compute | 3992 Ops/s | 3507 Ops/s |
Blender
Blender GPU
Recent User Tests
GeForce RTX 2060 Mobile
| Date | Benchmark | Result |
|---|---|---|
| 📘 2026-06-21 (WOLF) | GeekBench | 84403 |
GeForce RTX 2050 Mobile
| Date | Benchmark | Result |
|---|---|---|
| 📘 2026-06-20 (ZB) | GeekBench | 45651 |
Artificial Intelligence Tests
Performance in machine learning and artificial intelligence tasksGeekBench 6 ML
GB6 ML Single Precision
GB6 ML Half Precision
GB6 ML Quantized
| Image Classification (SP) | 4450 | 3489 |
| Image Segmentation (HP) | 9120 | 7528 |
| Image Super Resolution (Q) | 9180 | 6509 |
| Face Detection (HP) | 18866 | 13217 |
| Pose Estimation (Q) | 41027 | 24531 |
| Text Classification (SP) | 1741 | 2148 |
| Machine Translation (HP) | 2269 | 2764 |
| Object Detection (SP) | 4980 | 3948 |
| Depth Estimation (Q) | 18044 | 13355 |
| Style Transfer (SP) | 91554 | 60626 |
| Framework | ONNX | ONNX |
| Backend | DirectML | DirectML |
Specifications
Technical specifications of GeForce RTX 2060 Mobile and 2050 MobileGeneral
| Vendor | Nvidia | Nvidia |
| Build | Discrete | Discrete |
| Released | January 29, 2019 | December 17, 2021 |
| Case | Laptop | Laptop |
| Purpose | Gaming | Gaming |
| Segment | High-end | Mid-range |
| Architecture | Turing | Ampere |
| GPU Codename | TU106 (N18E-G1-B) | GA107 |
| Successor | - GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop | - |
| Recommended CPU | - Intel Core i7 10750H or above | - Intel Core i5 11500H or above |
Laptop GPU ranking (90th and 95th place)
Graphics Processing Unit
| Base Clock | 960 MHz | 735-1185 MHz (configurable) |
| Boost Clock | 1175-1200 MHz (configurable) | 1245-1477 MHz (configurable) |
| Shading Units | 1920 | 2048 |
| Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) | 120 | 64 |
| Render Output Units (ROPs) | 48 | 32 |
| Compute Units (Pipelines) | 30 | 16 |
| Tensor Cores | 240 | 64 |
| Ray-tracing Cores | 30 | 16 |
| L1 Cache | 64KB per cluster | 64KB per cluster |
| L2 Cache | 3MB shared | 2MB shared |
| Instructions Per Cycle | 2 IPC | 2 IPC |
Raw Performance
| Pixel Fill Rate | 56-58 GPixel/s | 40-47 GPixel/s |
| Texture Fill Rate | 141-144 GTexel/s | 80-95 GTexel/s |
FLOPS (FP32)
Physical
| Interface | PCIe 3.0 x16 | PCIe 3.0 x8 |
| TGP | 80-115 W (configurable) | 30-45 W (configurable) |
| Manufacturing | TSMC | Samsung |
| Fabrication Process | 12 nm | 8 nm |
| Die Size | 445 mm² | 200 mm² |
| Transistor Count | 10.8 billion | 8 billion |
| Transistor Density | 24.27 MTr/mm² | 40 MTr/mm² |
Memory
| Memory Type | GDDR6 | GDDR6 |
| Memory Size | 6 GB | 4 GB |
| Memory Clock | 1375 MHz | 1750 MHz |
| Effective Memory Speed | 11000 Mbps | 14000 Mbps |
| Bus | 192-bit | 64-bit |
| ECC | No | No |
Memory Bandwidth
API
| DirectX | 12 | 12 |
| Vulkan | 1.2 | 1.3 |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| OpenCL | 1.2 | 3.0 |
| CUDA | 7.5 | 8.6 |
| Ray Tracing | Yes | Yes |
| DLSS | DLSS 2 | No |
| DisplayPort | 1.4 | 1.4a |
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