NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5GB

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2058 points

2438 points

18% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

42 FPS

49 FPS

7 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

33 FPS

39 FPS

6 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

27 FPS

31 FPS

4 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

29 FPS

32 FPS

3 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

284.61 points

324.97 points

14% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

31922 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

30206 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

33958 points

0.85% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

33671 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

33939 points

36656 points

8% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

33375 points

35111 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

32433 points

33988 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1506 MHz

Identical

1506 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1708 MHz

1709 MHz

0.06% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit

20% slightly larger memory bus width

160 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

192.2 GB/s

19% slightly higher memory bandwidth

160.2 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

120 W

Identical

120 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

81.98 Gigapixels/s

19% slightly higher pixel rate

68.36 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

123 Gigatexels/s

136.7 Gigatexels/s

11% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

3.94 TFLOPS

4.38 TFLOPS

11% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1152

1280

11% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

11% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

20% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

206th of 586

181st of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 August

2017 December

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce GTX 1060 3GB vs GeForce GTX 1060 5GB comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 1060 5GB GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB in gaming.

Our database shows that both the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB and GeForce GTX 1060 5GB both have the same core clock speed. Despite this, the GeForce GTX 1060 5GB has a slightly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

In addition, both the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB and the GeForce GTX 1060 5GB have an identical TDP. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce GTX 1060 5GB is better than the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB.