NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 32 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 289.00
$ 2476.73 significantly less expensive
$ 2765.73

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2058 points
42789 points
1979% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

42 FPS
1019 FPS
978 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

33 FPS
503 FPS
470 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

27 FPS
740 FPS
713 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

29 FPS
425 FPS
396 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

284.61 points
14992.38 points
5167% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

33375 points
383325 points
1048% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

32433 points
380401 points
1072% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1506 MHz
2017 MHz
33% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1708 MHz
2407 MHz
40% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit
512 Bit
166% significantly larger memory bus width

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

120 W
379% significantly lower TDP
575 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

81.98 Gigapixels/s
423.6 Gigapixels/s
416% significantly higher pixel rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1152
21760
1788% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

72
680
844% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

48
176
266% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

206th of 586
1st of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 August
2025 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5
GDDR7

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
4.6

GeForce GTX 1060 3GB vs GeForce RTX 5090 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 5090 beats the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB in gaming performance.

In our comparison, the GeForce RTX 5090 has a slightly 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 5090 also 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, the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB has a significantly lower TDP at 120 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 5090 at 575 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce RTX 5090 is faster than the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB.

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