NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5060 and 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 5 months late

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

More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (355.0GB/s vs 192.2GB/s)

3456 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB 's Advantages

Lower TDP (120W vs 170W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 5060 +490%

23.22 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

3.935 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 5060

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GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

Graphics Card

Jan 2025

Release Date

Aug 2016

GeForce 50

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 5.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2235 MHz

Base Clock

1506 MHz

2520 MHz

Boost Clock

1708 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

2002 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR7

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

355.0GB/s

Bandwidth

192.2GB/s

Render Config

-

36

SM Count

9

4608

Shading Units

1152

144

TMUs

72

48

ROPs

48

144

Tensor Cores

-

36

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

32 MB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

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Theoretical Performance

121.0 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

81.98 GPixel/s

362.9 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

123.0 GTexel/s

23.22 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

61.49 GFLOPS

23.22 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.935 TFLOPS

362.9 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

123.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

170W

TDP

120W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

1x 16-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GB206

GPU Name

GP106

GB206

GPU Variant

GP106-300-A1

Blackwell 2.0

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

0

Process Size

16 nm

Unknown

Transistors

4.4 billion

Unknown

Die Size

200 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

10.1

CUDA

6.1

6.8

Shader Model

6.4

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