NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050

Price

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$ 289.00

$ 249.99

$ 39.01 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2058 points

5507 points

167% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

42 FPS

135 FPS

93 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

33 FPS

66 FPS

32 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

27 FPS

94 FPS

68 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

29 FPS

52 FPS

22 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

284.61 points

2880.41 points

912% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

33375 points

97092 points

190% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

32433 points

91845 points

183% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1506 MHz

2317 MHz

53% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1708 MHz

2572 MHz

50% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit

49% significantly larger memory bus width

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

192.2 GB/s

320 GB/s

66% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

120 W

8% slightly lower TDP

130 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

81.98 Gigapixels/s

82.3 Gigapixels/s

0.39% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

123 Gigatexels/s

205.8 Gigatexels/s

67% significantly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1152

2560

122% significantly 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

49% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

206th of 586

91st of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 August

2025 July

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce GTX 1060 3GB vs GeForce RTX 5050 comparison

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 5050 graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB in our tests.

The GeForce RTX 5050 has a significantly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. In addition, the GeForce RTX 5050 also has a significantly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB has a slightly lower TDP at 120 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 5050 at 130 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce RTX 5050 is faster than the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB.