NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop, 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
4766 points
93% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

47 FPS
101 FPS
54 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

40 FPS
63 FPS
23 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

31 FPS
89 FPS
57 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

33 FPS
48 FPS
15 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

377.89 points
2969.98 points
685% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

36494 points
85838 points
135% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

35697 points
80080 points
124% 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

192 Bit
49% significantly larger memory bus width
128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

192.2 GB/s
384 GB/s
99% 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

82.03 Gigapixels/s
70% significantly 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

80
Identical
80

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

48
49% significantly more render output processors
32

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

180th of 586
107th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 July
2025 June

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 6GB vs GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop beats the GeForce GTX 1060 6GB in gaming performance.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop over the GeForce GTX 1060 6GB.

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