NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 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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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1789 points

8233 points

360% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

37 FPS

191 FPS

155 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

30 FPS

95 FPS

66 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

25 FPS

139 FPS

114 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

23 FPS

75 FPS

52 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

3292 points

4% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

3149 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

347.28 points

3690.41 points

962% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

32446 points

126840 points

290% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

29492 points

120026 points

306% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1480 MHz

2280 MHz

54% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1480 MHz

2497 MHz

68% 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

80 W

81% significantly lower TDP

145 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

71.04 Gigapixels/s

119.9 Gigapixels/s

68% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

118.4 Gigatexels/s

299.6 Gigatexels/s

153% 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

120

49% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

225th of 597

51st of 597

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 June

2025 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

GDDR7

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.1

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.6

GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q vs GeForce RTX 5060 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 5060 beats the GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q in gaming performance.

In our comparison, the GeForce RTX 5060 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 RTX 5060 also has a significantly 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 Max-Q has a significantly lower TDP at 80 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 5060 at 145 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce RTX 5060 is better than the GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q.