NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5GB

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2457 points

0.78% slightly better overall score

2438 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

47 FPS

49 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

40 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

39 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

31 FPS

0 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

31 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

33 FPS

0 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

32 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

377.89 points

16% slightly higher Blender score

324.97 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

34034 points

12% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

30206 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

36416 points

8% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

33671 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

37241 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

36656 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

36494 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

35111 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

35697 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

33988 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1506 MHz

Identical

1506 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1709 MHz

Identical

1709 MHz

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

82.03 Gigapixels/s

19% slightly higher pixel rate

68.36 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

136.7 Gigatexels/s

Identical

136.7 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

4.04 TFLOPS

4.38 TFLOPS

8% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1280

Identical

1280

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

Identical

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

180th of 586

181st of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 July

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 6GB vs GeForce GTX 1060 5GB benchmarks

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 1060 5GB graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 1060 6GB in our tests.

Our database shows that both the GeForce GTX 1060 6GB and GeForce GTX 1060 5GB both have the same core clock speed.

In addition, both the GeForce GTX 1060 6GB and the GeForce GTX 1060 5GB have an identical TDP. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce GTX 1060 5GB is better than the GeForce GTX 1060 6GB.