NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5GB

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2438 points

4590 points

88% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

49 FPS

97 FPS

49 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

39 FPS

63 FPS

24 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

31 FPS

90 FPS

59 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

32 FPS

49 FPS

17 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

324.97 points

2969.98 points

813% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

35111 points

85838 points

144% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

33988 points

80080 points

135% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1506 MHz

47% significantly higher core clock speed

1020 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1709 MHz

13% slightly higher boost clock speed

1500 MHz

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

160 Bit

25% slightly larger memory bus width

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

160.2 GB/s

384 GB/s

139% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

120 W

50 W

139% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

68.36 Gigapixels/s

42% slightly higher pixel rate

48 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

136.7 Gigatexels/s

13% slightly higher texture rate

120 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1280

2560

100% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

Identical

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

25% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

182nd of 590

109th of 590

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 December

2025 June

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

GDDR7

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce GTX 1060 5GB vs GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop comparison

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop beats the GeForce GTX 1060 5GB in gaming performance.

Our database shows that the GeForce GTX 1060 5GB 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 GTX 1060 5GB also has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop has a significantly lower TDP at 50 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1060 5GB at 120 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop over the GeForce GTX 1060 5GB.