NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2060 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5060 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 4 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 49% (2497MHz vs 1680MHz)
More VRAM (8GB vs 6GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 336.0GB/s)
1920 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (145W vs 160W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 2060
6.451 TFLOPS
GeForce RTX 5060
+197%
19.18 TFLOPS
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce RTX 2060
7572
GeForce RTX 5060
+81%
13735
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce RTX 2060
3504
GeForce RTX 5060
+84%
6452
3DMark Speed Way
GeForce RTX 2060
1397
GeForce RTX 5060
+150%
3494
Graphics Card
Jan 2019
Release Date
May 2025
GeForce 20
Generation
GeForce 50
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 5.0 x8
Clock Speeds
1365 MHz
Base Clock
2280 MHz
1680 MHz
Boost Clock
2497 MHz
1750 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
Memory
6GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR7
192bit
Memory Bus
128bit
336.0GB/s
Bandwidth
448.0GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
30
SM Count
30
1920
Shading Units
3840
120
TMUs
120
48
ROPs
48
240
Tensor Cores
120
30
RT Cores
30
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
3 MB
L2 Cache
32 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
80.64 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
119.9 GPixel/s
201.6 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
299.6 GTexel/s
12.90 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
19.18 TFLOPS
6.451 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
19.18 TFLOPS
201.6 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
299.6 GFLOPS
Board Design
160W
TDP
145W
450 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
2x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x USB Type-C
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1b
3x DisplayPort 2.1b
1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
TU106
GPU Name
GB206
TU106-200A-KA-A1
GPU Variant
GB206-250-A1
Turing
Architecture
Blackwell 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
12 nm
Process Size
5 nm
10.8 billion
Transistors
21.9 billion
445 mm²
Die Size
181 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.4
7.5
CUDA
12.0
6.6
Shader Model
6.8
