NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5060 and 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 's Advantages
Released 7 years and 2 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 46% (2497MHz vs 1708MHz)
More VRAM (8GB vs 6GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 192.2GB/s)
2560 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104 's Advantages
Lower TDP (120W vs 145W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 5060
+338%
19.18 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104
4.372 TFLOPS
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce RTX 5060
+226%
13735
GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104
4203
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce RTX 5060
+236%
6452
GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104
1917
Graphics Card
May 2025
Release Date
Mar 2018
GeForce 50
Generation
GeForce 10
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 5.0 x8
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
2280 MHz
Base Clock
1506 MHz
2497 MHz
Boost Clock
1708 MHz
1750 MHz
Memory Clock
2002 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
6GB
GDDR7
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
192bit
448.0GB/s
Bandwidth
192.2GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
30
SM Count
10
3840
Shading Units
1280
120
TMUs
80
48
ROPs
48
120
Tensor Cores
-
30
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SM)
32 MB
L2 Cache
1536 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
119.9 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
81.98 GPixel/s
299.6 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
136.6 GTexel/s
19.18 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
68.32 GFLOPS
19.18 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
4.372 TFLOPS
299.6 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
136.6 GFLOPS
Board Design
145W
TDP
120W
300 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
1x HDMI 2.1b
3x DisplayPort 2.1b
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GB206
GPU Name
GP104
GB206-250-A1
GPU Variant
GP104-150-KA-A1
Blackwell 2.0
Architecture
Pascal
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
5 nm
Process Size
16 nm
21.9 billion
Transistors
7.2 billion
181 mm²
Die Size
314 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.4
Vulkan
1.3
12.0
CUDA
6.1
6.8
Shader Model
6.4
