NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 399.00
$ 294.49
$ 104.51 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2457 points
8206 points
233% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

47 FPS
192 FPS
145 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

40 FPS
95 FPS
55 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

31 FPS
139 FPS
108 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

33 FPS
75 FPS
42 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

377.89 points
3690.41 points
876% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

36494 points
126840 points
247% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

35697 points
120026 points
236% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1506 MHz
2280 MHz
51% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1709 MHz
2497 MHz
46% significantly higher boost clock speed

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
448 GB/s
133% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

120 W
20% slightly lower TDP
145 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

82.03 Gigapixels/s
119.9 Gigapixels/s
46% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

136.7 Gigatexels/s
299.6 Gigatexels/s
119% significantly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1280
3840
200% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

80
120
49% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

48
Identical
48

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

180th of 586
51st of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 July
2025 May

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 5060 comparison

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 5060 beats the GeForce GTX 1060 6GB in gaming performance.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 5060 over the GeForce GTX 1060 6GB.

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