NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5GB

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5GB, 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

2077 points

2438 points

17% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

43 FPS

49 FPS

5 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

34 FPS

39 FPS

5 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

27 FPS

31 FPS

3 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

27 FPS

32 FPS

6 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

370.89 points

14% slightly higher Blender score

324.97 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

31129 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

30206 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

32388 points

33671 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

31476 points

36656 points

16% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

32365 points

35111 points

8% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

30916 points

33988 points

9% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1708 MHz

13% slightly higher core clock speed

1506 MHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

120 W

Identical

120 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

205th of 586

181st of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 December

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.6

GeForce GTX 1060 vs GeForce GTX 1060 5GB specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 1060 5GB GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 1060 in gaming.

The GeForce GTX 1060 has a slightly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture.

In addition, both the GeForce GTX 1060 and the GeForce GTX 1060 5GB have an identical TDP. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce GTX 1060 5GB is better than the GeForce GTX 1060.