NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070, 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

2438 points
13092 points
436% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

49 FPS
305 FPS
257 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

39 FPS
156 FPS
117 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

31 FPS
227 FPS
196 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

32 FPS
124 FPS
92 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

324.97 points
6174.82 points
1800% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

35111 points
188870 points
437% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

33988 points
181089 points
432% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1506 MHz
2325 MHz
54% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1709 MHz
2512 MHz
46% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

160 Bit
192 Bit
20% slightly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

160.2 GB/s
672 GB/s
319% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

120 W
108% significantly lower TDP
250 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

68.36 Gigapixels/s
201 Gigapixels/s
194% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

136.7 Gigatexels/s
482.3 Gigatexels/s
252% significantly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1280
6144
380% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

80
192
139% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

40
80
100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

181st of 586
28th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 December
2025 March

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 5GB vs GeForce RTX 5070 benchmarks

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 1060 5GB graphics card is better than the GeForce RTX 5070 in our tests.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GTX 1060 5GB over the GeForce RTX 5070.

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