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GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop vs 2060 Mobile

GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop
VS
GeForce RTX 2060 Mobile
Nvidia GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop
AD107 (GN21-X2)
Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060 Mobile
TU106 (N18E-G1-B)

We compared two discrete laptop gaming GPUs: the GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile with 20 pipelines and 2560 shaders against the 4 years and 1 month older RTX 2060 Mobile that utilizes 30 pipelines and 1920 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.

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  1. Review
  2. Differences
  3. Gaming performance
  4. Benchmarks
  5. AI
  6. Specs
  7. Comments

Review

General comparison of performance in games, applications, power efficiency, and other metrics
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

Key distinctions and advantages of RTX 2060 Laptop over RTX 4050 Mobile
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop
  • Performs better (up to 36%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • 2.6x higher maximum theoretical performance (12.1 vs 4.6 TFLOPS)
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 5 nm process technology
  • Shows 33% higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 53 vs 40 FPS
  • Supports Nvidia DLSS 3 technology
  • Has 33% more shading units (2560 vs 1920)
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 2060 Mobile
  • Features 160 more tensor cores for effective ML and AI workloads
  • Has 38% higher memory bandwidth: 264 vs 192 GB/s

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions
GPU
RTX 4050 Laptop
vs
RTX 2060 Mobile

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
107
66
56
35
88
52
42
25
The Witcher 3
117
91
67
34
85
65
45
22
Counter-Strike 2
167
126
88
43
134
92
68
28
Far Cry 6
87
79
59
32
71
62
45
24
Hogwarts Legacy
62
52
34
20
45
38
27
13
CoD: Modern Warfare III
75
68
44
30
56
48
34
20
Ghost of Tsushima
57
45
33
17
41
31
26
13
Cyberpunk 2077
61
57
34
13
45
40
22
10
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
98
90
62
32
75
71
47
26
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 92 71
1080p Ultra 75 55
1440p Ultra 53 40
4K Ultra 28 20
Margin of Error Low Low

Benchmarks

Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps

3D Mark

Multiplatform graphics benchmark suite that directly correlates with performance in modern games
Steel Nomad Lite Score
Time Spy 8212 5958
Solar Bay 35375 25742
Port Royal 4624 3328
Fire Strike 21909 15852
Wild Life Extreme 15492 11600
Night Raid 84848 62045
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
RTX 4050 Laptop +10%
81436
RTX 2060 Mobile
73982
Background Blur 141.4 img/sec 150.7 img/sec
Face Detection 84.1 img/sec 75.5 img/sec
Horizon Detection 3.07 Gpixels/sec 2.83 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 3.91 Gpixels/sec 3.68 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 3.85 Gpixels/sec 4.08 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 1.1 Gpixels/sec 0.89 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 325.9 Gpixels/sec 257.7 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 11008.8 FPS 9069.6 FPS
API OpenCL OpenCL
Sources: Geekbench [3], [4]

Cinebench 2024 GPU

Hardware benchmark using Maxon's Cinema 4D rendering engine
Cinebench 2024 GPU

Passmark Graphics

Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features
G3D Mark Score
RTX 4050 Laptop +25%
14217
RTX 2060 Mobile
11353
G2D Mark 622 540
DirectX 11 129 FPS 96 FPS
DirectX 12 60 FPS 39 FPS
GPU Compute 5847 Ops/s 3992 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 14311 & 1238 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
RTX 4050 Laptop +87%
2568.81
RTX 2060 Mobile
1374.98
Sources: Blender [9], [10] – 2080 & 124 samples
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Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2026-07-17 (kam)GeekBench93074
📘 2026-07-15 (Mr._.Flexo)Cinebench 20248096
📘 2026-07-02 (SuperDuck)GeekBench90032
📘 2026-05-18 (TheMan)Cinebench 20248523
📘 2026-05-15 -> ZayGeekBench89343
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GeForce RTX 2060 Mobile
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2026-06-21 (WOLF)GeekBench84403
Add View all (1)

Artificial Intelligence Tests

Performance in machine learning and artificial intelligence tasks

GeekBench 6 ML

Tests throughput of AI operations in single, half, and quantized precision
GB6 ML Single Precision
RTX 4050 Laptop +55%
15570
RTX 2060 Mobile
10073
GB6 ML Half Precision
RTX 4050 Laptop +57%
27160
RTX 2060 Mobile
17250
GB6 ML Quantized
Image Classification (SP) 6233 4450
Image Segmentation (HP) 16395 9120
Image Super Resolution (Q) 18240 9180
Face Detection (HP) 30758 18866
Pose Estimation (Q) 61300 41027
Text Classification (SP) 3124 1741
Machine Translation (HP) 4357 2269
Object Detection (SP) 7812 4980
Depth Estimation (Q) 29192 18044
Style Transfer (SP) 117759 91554
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop and 2060 Mobile

General

Vendor Nvidia Nvidia
Build Discrete Discrete
Released February 22, 2023 January 29, 2019
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Segment Entry-level High-end
Architecture Ada Lovelace Turing
GPU Codename AD107 (GN21-X2) TU106 (N18E-G1-B)
Rival Equivalent - Radeon RX 7700S -
Successor - GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop - GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop
Recommended CPU - Intel Core Ultra 7 155H or above - Intel Core i7 10750H or above
Laptop GPU ranking (65th and 90th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 1140-2070 MHz (configurable) 960 MHz
Boost Clock 1605-2370 MHz (configurable) 1175-1200 MHz (configurable)
Shading Units 2560 1920
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 80 120
Render Output Units (ROPs) 32 48
Compute Units (Pipelines) 20 30
Tensor Cores 80 240
Ray-tracing Cores 20 30
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 64KB per cluster
L2 Cache 12MB shared 3MB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 51-76 GPixel/s 56-58 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 128-190 GTexel/s 141-144 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
RTX 4050 Laptop +163%
8.2-12.1 TFLOPS
RTX 2060 Mobile
4.5-4.6 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
TGP 35-140 W (configurable) 80-115 W (configurable)
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Fabrication Process 5 nm 12 nm
Die Size 156 mm² 445 mm²
Transistor Count 18.9 billion 10.8 billion
Transistor Density 121.15 MTr/mm² 24.27 MTr/mm²

Memory

Memory Type GDDR6 GDDR6
Memory Size 6 GB 6 GB
Memory Clock 2000 MHz 1375 MHz
Effective Memory Speed 16000 Mbps 11000 Mbps
Bus 96-bit 192-bit
ECC No No
Memory Bandwidth
RTX 4050 Laptop
192 GB/s
RTX 2060 Mobile +38%
264 GB/s

API

DirectX 12 12
Vulkan 1.3 1.2
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 3.0 1.2
CUDA 8.9 7.5
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
DLSS DLSS 3 DLSS 2
DisplayPort 1.4a 1.4

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