GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB and GeForce RTX 5090 - video card comparison

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

GeForce RTX 5090

Architecture

Pascal (2016−2021)

Blackwell 2.0

GPU code name

GP106

GB202

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

July 2016

2025 (recently)

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 5.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin

1x 16-pin

Boost clock speed

1708 MHz

2520 MHz

Core clock speed

1506 MHz

Floating-point performance

4,375 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

16 nm

0 nm

Number of transistors

4,400 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

1280

20480

Power consumption (TDP)

120 Watt

500 Watt

Texture fill rate

136.7

1,613

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR7

Maximum RAM amount

6 GB

28 GB

Memory bus width

192 Bit

448 Bit

Memory clock speed

8000 MHz

5 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

192.2 GB/s

280.0 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

HDMI

G-SYNC support

DirectX

12 (12_1)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

6.1

9.1

OpenCL

1.2

3.0

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

6.4

6.7

Vulkan

1.2.131

1.3

VR Ready