NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 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 8 years and 6 months late

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

More VRAM (8GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 192.2GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (100W vs 120W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

4.375 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 5050 +194%

12.9 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

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GeForce RTX 5050

Graphics Card

Jul 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

1709 MHz

Boost Clock

2520 MHz

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

10

SM Count

20

-

Compute Units

-

1280

Shading Units

2560

80

TMUs

80

48

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

80

-

RT Cores

20

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

32 MB

Theoretical Performance

82.03 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

Graphics Processor

GP106

GPU Name

GB207

GP106-400-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

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 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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