NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB and 28GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5090 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB 's Advantages

Lower TDP (120W vs 500W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 48% (2520MHz vs 1708MHz)

More VRAM (28GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (280.0GB/s vs 192.2GB/s)

19328 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

3.935 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 5090 +2522%

103.2 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

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GeForce RTX 5090

Graphics Card

Aug 2016

Release Date

Jan 2025

GeForce 10

Generation

GeForce 50

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 5.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

2235 MHz

1708 MHz

Boost Clock

2520 MHz

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

2500 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

28GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR7

192bit

Memory Bus

448bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

280.0GB/s

Render Config

9

SM Count

160

-

Compute Units

-

1152

Shading Units

20480

72

TMUs

640

48

ROPs

192

-

Tensor Cores

640

-

RT Cores

160

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

88 MB

Theoretical Performance

81.98 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

483.8 GPixel/s

123.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

1613 GTexel/s

61.49 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

103.2 TFLOPS

3.935 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

103.2 TFLOPS

123.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1.613 TFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP106

GPU Name

GB202

GP106-300-A1

GPU Variant

GB202

Pascal

Architecture

Blackwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

0 nm

4.4 billion

Transistors

Unknown

200 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

Board Design

120W

TDP

500W

300 W

Suggested PSU

900 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 16-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

6.1

CUDA

9.1

6.4

Shader Model

6.7

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