NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090

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GeForce GTX 1060 compared with GeForce RTX 5090

	NVIDIAGeForce GTX 1060	NVIDIAGeForce RTX 5090
Overview
Released
Released	July 2016	January 2025
Performance
Chip maker
Chip maker	NVIDIA	NVIDIA
Architecture
Architecture	Pascal	Blackwell
Shader cores
Shader cores	1,280 or 1,152	21,760
Boost clock
Boost clock	1,708 MHz or –	2,407 MHz
Architecture
Architecture	Main figures and photo describe the original 6 GB Founders Edition. The 3 GB card has 1152 CUDA cores rather than 1280. Later 9 Gbps GDDR5 and GDDR5X cards were partner designs; unpublished general revision figures remain blank in their configurations.	GB202 GPU; 170 SMs, 680 texture units, 176 ROPs
Manufacturing process
Manufacturing process	16 nm FinFET (original GP106)	TSMC 4nm (4N NVIDIA custom process); 92.2 billion transistors; 750 mm² die
Ray tracing
Ray tracing	No dedicated RT Cores	170 fourth-generation RT Cores; 318 RT TFLOPS
AI cores
AI cores	No Tensor Cores	680 fifth-generation Tensor Cores; 3352 AI TOPS
Upscaling and frame generation
Upscaling and frame generation	No NVIDIA DLSS	DLSS 4.5 with Super Resolution, DLAA, Ray Reconstruction, Frame Generation, Multi Frame Generation and Dynamic Multi Frame Generation
Base clock
Base clock	1506 MHz base and 1708 MHz boost for the original 6 GB and stock-clock 3 GB cards. MSI GAMING X+ 6G (9 Gbps GDDR5) has 1708 MHz boost in Silent Mode, 1784 MHz Gaming Mode and 1809 MHz OC Mode. MSI ARMOR 6GD5X OC specifies 1544 MHz base and 1759 MHz boost; these factory OC figures are not assigned to every GDDR5X card.	2.01 GHz
Cache
Cache	1536 KB L2 cache (original GP106)	96 MB L2
Memory
Video memory
Video memory	6 GB GDDR5, 3 GB GDDR5 or 6 GB GDDR5X	32 GB GDDR7
Memory bus
Memory bus	192-bit	512-bit (better)
Memory bandwidth
Memory bandwidth	192 GB/s or –	1,792 GB/s
Memory detail
Memory detail	Original 6 GB and 3 GB cards have 8 Gbps GDDR5, 192-bit bus and 192 GB/s bandwidth. NVIDIA confirms the later 9 Gbps GDDR5 refresh; MSI GAMING X+ lists 9026 MHz Gaming/Silent and 9126 MHz OC memory speed. MSI ARMOR 6GD5X OC verifies 6 GB GDDR5X, 192-bit bus and 8008 MHz memory speed, but publishes no bandwidth figure. Later revisions' first-sale dates are unverified.	GDDR7 at 28 Gbps
Connections and power
Board power
Board power	120 W or –	575 W
Interface
Interface	PCIe 3.0	PCIe 5.0
Display outputs
Display outputs	Original Founders Edition has 3 × DisplayPort 1.3/1.4, HDMI 2.0b and dual-link DVI; partner outputs vary	3 × DisplayPort 2.1b (UHBR20), 1 × HDMI 2.1b; up to 4 displays; HDCP 2.3
Maximum resolution
Maximum resolution	7680 × 4320 (PNY stock 3 GB specification)	4K at 480 Hz or 8K at 165 Hz with DSC
Power connector
Power connector	1 × PCIe 6-pin on the original Founders Edition and stock PNY 3 GB; MSI GAMING X+ uses 1 × 8-pin, and MSI ARMOR GDDR5X OC uses 1 × 8-pin plus 1 × 6-pin	1 × 600 W PCIe Gen 5 cable, or 4 × PCIe 8-pin cables with the adapter in the box
Recommended power supply
Recommended power supply	400 W (PNY stock 3 GB, MSI GAMING X+ and MSI ARMOR GDDR5X OC)	1000 W
Slot width
Slot width	2-slot original Founders Edition; partner cards vary	2-slot (Founders Edition)
Size (reference card)
Size (reference card)	–	304 × 137 mm, 2-slot (Founders Edition)
Video encode and decode
Video encode and decode	–	3 × ninth-generation NVENC, 2 × sixth-generation NVDEC; AV1 encode and decode