NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1050 and 5GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 120W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 17% (1709MHz vs 1455MHz)

More VRAM (5GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.2GB/s vs 112.1GB/s)

640 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1050

1.862 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB +134%

4.375 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 1050

1760

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB +122%

3908

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GTX 1050

8

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB +100%

16

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GTX 1050

18

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB +122%

40

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GTX 1050

31

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB +61%

50

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce GTX 1050

14

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB +114%

30

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce GTX 1050

29

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB +86%

54

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 1050

36

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB +102%

73

GeForce GTX 1050

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GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

Graphics Card

Oct 2016

Release Date

Dec 2017

GeForce 10

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1354 MHz

Base Clock

1506 MHz

1455 MHz

Boost Clock

1709 MHz

1752 MHz

Memory Clock

2002 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

5GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

160bit

112.1GB/s

Bandwidth

160.2GB/s

Render Config

5

SM Count

10

-

Compute Units

-

640

Shading Units

1280

40

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

40

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

1280 KB

Theoretical Performance

46.56 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

68.36 GPixel/s

58.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

136.7 GTexel/s

29.10 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

68.36 GFLOPS

1.862 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.375 TFLOPS

58.20 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

136.7 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP107

GPU Name

GP106

GP107-300-A1

GPU Variant

GP106-350-K3-A1

Pascal

Architecture

Pascal

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

16 nm

3.3 billion

Transistors

4.4 billion

132 mm²

Die Size

200 mm²

Board Design

75W

TDP

120W

250 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

6.1

CUDA

6.1

6.4

Shader Model

6.4

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