NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 32 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Price

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$ 335.00
$ 2430.73 significantly less expensive
$ 2765.73

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2077 points
42789 points
1960% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

43 FPS
1019 FPS
976 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

34 FPS
503 FPS
469 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

27 FPS
740 FPS
712 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

27 FPS
425 FPS
399 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

3636 points
14480 points
298% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

370.89 points
14992.38 points
3942% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

32365 points
383325 points
1084% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

30916 points
380401 points
1130% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1708 MHz
2017 MHz
18% slightly higher core clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

6 GiB
32 GiB
433% significantly more memory

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

120 W
379% significantly lower TDP
575 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

205th of 586
1st of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

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2025 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

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GDDR7

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5
4.6

GeForce GTX 1060 vs GeForce RTX 5090 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 5090 GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 1060 in gaming.

In our comparison, the GeForce RTX 5090 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.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the GeForce RTX 5090 has significantly more memory with 32 GiB of memory compared to 6 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 1060 has a significantly lower TDP at 120 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 5090 at 575 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 GeForce RTX 5090 over the GeForce GTX 1060.

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