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

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 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

1789 points
5925 points
231% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

37 FPS
116 FPS
80 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

30 FPS
80 FPS
50 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

25 FPS
112 FPS
87 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

23 FPS
61 FPS
38 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

347.28 points
3522.98 points
914% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

32446 points
104383 points
221% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

29492 points
98514 points
234% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1480 MHz
55% significantly higher core clock speed
952 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1480 MHz
1% slightly higher boost clock speed
1455 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

80 W
45 W
77% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

71.04 Gigapixels/s
1% slightly higher pixel rate
69.84 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

118.4 Gigatexels/s
151.3 Gigatexels/s
27% slightly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1280
3328
160% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

80
104
30% slightly 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

222nd of 586
84th of 586

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 Laptop comparison

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q in our tests.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop over the GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q.

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