NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 32GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5090 and 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 3 months late

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

More VRAM (32GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1.52TB/s vs 192.2GB/s)

20480 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X 's Advantages

Lower TDP (120W vs 500W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 5090 +2407%

109.7 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

4.375 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 5090

VS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

Graphics Card

Jan 2025

Release Date

Oct 2018

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

1709 MHz

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

1001 MHz

Memory

32GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR7

Memory Type

GDDR5X

512bit

Memory Bus

192bit

1.52TB/s

Bandwidth

192.2GB/s

Render Config

-

170

SM Count

10

21760

Shading Units

1280

680

TMUs

80

192

ROPs

48

680

Tensor Cores

-

170

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

88 MB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

483.8 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

82.03 GPixel/s

1714 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

136.7 GTexel/s

109.7 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

68.36 GFLOPS

109.7 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.375 TFLOPS

1.714 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

136.7 GFLOPS

Board Design

500W

TDP

120W

900 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

GB202

GPU Name

GP104

GB202-400-A1

GPU Variant

GP104-150-KA-A1

Blackwell 2.0

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

4 nm

Process Size

16 nm

Unknown

Transistors

7.2 billion

Unknown

Die Size

314 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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