NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5GB

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 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

4831 points

98% significantly better overall score

2438 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

106 FPS

57 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

49 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

66 FPS

27 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

39 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

74 FPS

43 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

31 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

50 FPS

17 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

32 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

1636.29 points

403% significantly higher Blender score

324.97 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

78091 points

158% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

30206 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

70754 points

110% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

33671 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

60775 points

65% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

36656 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

76744 points

118% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

35111 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

72572 points

113% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

33988 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1365 MHz

1506 MHz

10% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1680 MHz

1709 MHz

1% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit

20% slightly larger memory bus width

160 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

336 GB/s

109% significantly higher memory bandwidth

160.2 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

160 W

120 W

33% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

80.64 Gigapixels/s

17% slightly higher pixel rate

68.36 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

201.6 Gigatexels/s

47% significantly higher texture rate

136.7 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

6.45 TFLOPS

47% significantly better floating point performance

4.38 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1920

49% significantly more shading units

1280

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

20% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

106th of 586

181st of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 January

2017 December

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce RTX 2060 vs GeForce GTX 1060 5GB benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 2060 beats the GeForce GTX 1060 5GB in gaming performance.

The GeForce GTX 1060 5GB has a slightly 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 GTX 1060 5GB also has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 1060 5GB has a slightly lower TDP at 120 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 2060 at 160 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 2060 over the GeForce GTX 1060 5GB.