Nvidia RTX 500 Ada Generation Mobile vs GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

Place in the ranking	239	202
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Power efficiency	13.45	53.47
Architecture	Pascal (2016−2021)	Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code name	GP106	AD107
Market segment	Desktop	Mobile workstation
Release date	26 December 2017 (6 years ago)	26 February 2024 (less than a year ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	1280	2048
Core clock speed	1506 MHz	1485 MHz
Boost clock speed	1709 MHz	2025 MHz
Number of transistors	4,400 million	18,900 million
Manufacturing process technology	16 nm	5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	120 Watt	35 Watt
Texture fill rate	136.7	129.6
Floating-point processing power	4.375 TFLOPS	8.294 TFLOPS
ROPs	40	32
TMUs	80	64
Tensor Cores	no data	64
Ray Tracing Cores	no data	16

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Laptop size	no data	medium sized
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 4.0 x8
Length	250 mm	no data
Width	2-slot	no data
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin	no data

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount	5 GB	4 GB
Memory bus width	160 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	2002 MHz	2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth	160.2 GB/s	128.0 GB/s
Shared memory	-	-

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort	Portable Device Dependent
HDMI	+	-

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX	12 (12_1)	12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model	6.4	6.8
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
OpenCL	1.2	3.0
Vulkan	1.2.131	1.3
CUDA	6.1	8.9

Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Pros & cons summary

Performance score	23.55	27.30
Recency	26 December 2017	26 February 2024
Maximum RAM amount	5 GB	4 GB
Chip lithography	16 nm	5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	120 Watt	35 Watt

GTX 1060 5 GB has a 25% higher maximum VRAM amount.

Nvidia RTX 500 Ada Generation Mobile, on the other hand, has a 15.9% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 6 years, a 220% more advanced lithography process, and 242.9% lower power consumption.

The RTX 500 Ada Generation Mobile is our recommended choice as it beats the GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB in performance tests.

Be aware that GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB is a desktop card while RTX 500 Ada Generation Mobile is a mobile workstation one.

Should you still have questions concerning choice between the reviewed GPUs, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.