NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050

Price

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$ 335.00

$ 249.99

$ 85.01 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2077 points

5507 points

165% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

43 FPS

135 FPS

91 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

34 FPS

66 FPS

31 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

27 FPS

94 FPS

67 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

27 FPS

52 FPS

25 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

3636 points

56% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

2317 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

370.89 points

2880.41 points

676% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

32365 points

97092 points

199% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

30916 points

91845 points

197% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1708 MHz

2317 MHz

35% slightly higher core clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

120 W

8% slightly lower TDP

130 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

205th of 586

91st of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2025 July

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

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 RTX 5050 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 5050 GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 1060 in gaming.

In our comparison, the GeForce RTX 5050 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, the GeForce GTX 1060 has a slightly lower TDP at 120 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 5050 at 130 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce RTX 5050 is faster than the GeForce GTX 1060.