NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB vs NVIDIA RTX A5000 Laptop

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB 6 GB vs NVIDIA RTX A5000 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

6082 points

147% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

48 FPS

134 FPS

86 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

40 FPS

77 FPS

37 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

31 FPS

101 FPS

69 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

33 FPS

60 FPS

27 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

377.89 points

2896.29 points

666% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

34034 points

139395 points

309% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

36416 points

122155 points

235% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

37241 points

88144 points

136% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

36494 points

122155 points

234% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

35697 points

101808 points

185% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1506 MHz

67% significantly higher core clock speed

900 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1709 MHz

8% slightly higher boost clock speed

1575 MHz

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit

256 Bit

33% slightly larger memory bus width

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

16% slightly lower TDP

140 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

82.03 Gigapixels/s

151.2 Gigapixels/s

84% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

136.7 Gigatexels/s

302.4 Gigatexels/s

121% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

4.04 TFLOPS

19.35 TFLOPS

379% significantly better floating point performance

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

192

139% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

182nd of 597

81st of 597

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 July

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce GTX 1060 6GB vs RTX A5000 Laptop benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the RTX A5000 Laptop GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 1060 6GB in gaming.

In our comparison, the GeForce GTX 1060 6GB has a significantly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. In addition, the GeForce GTX 1060 6GB also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 1060 6GB has a slightly lower TDP at 120 W when compared to the RTX A5000 Laptop at 140 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the RTX A5000 Laptop over the GeForce GTX 1060 6GB.