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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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

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

377.89 points
16% slightly higher Blender score
324.97 points
Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

34034 points
12% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score
30206 points
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

36416 points
8% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
33671 points
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

37241 points
1% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
36656 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

36494 points
3% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
35111 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

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

80
Identical
80

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

48
20% slightly more render output processors
40

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
GDDR5

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 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.

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