NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 5GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5050 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 47% (2520MHz vs 1709MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 5GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 160.2GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (100W vs 120W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

4.375 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 5050 +194%

12.9 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

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GeForce RTX 5050

Graphics Card

Dec 2017

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

1709 MHz

Boost Clock

2520 MHz

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

5GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

160bit

Memory Bus

128bit

160.2GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

-

10

SM Count

20

1280

Shading Units

2560

80

TMUs

80

40

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

80

-

RT Cores

20

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

1280 KB

L2 Cache

32 MB

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Theoretical Performance

68.36 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

80.64 GPixel/s

136.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

201.6 GTexel/s

68.36 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

12.90 TFLOPS

4.375 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.90 TFLOPS

136.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

201.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

100W

300 W

Suggested PSU

300 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 Processor

GP106

GPU Name

GB207

GP106-350-K3-A1

GPU Variant

GB207

Pascal

Architecture

Blackwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

0 nm

4.4 billion

Transistors

Unknown

200 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

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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