Component comparison

GeForce RTX 5060 vs GeForce GTX 1050

GeForce RTX 5060 vs GeForce GTX 1050 — detailed GPU comparison: performance, gaming FPS, specifications.

Advantages

A GeForce RTX 5060
  • + Release year (+8)
  • + VRAM (GB) (+6 GB)
  • + Bandwidth (GB/s) (+336 GB/s)
  • + Lithography (nm) (-9 nm)
  • + Transistors (M) (+18,600M)
  • + CUDA cores (+3072)
  • + TMUs (+72)
  • + ROPs (+24)
  • + FP32 performance (TFLOPS) (+16.96 TFLOPS)
  • + Pixel fill rate (GPixel/s) (+73.34 GPixel/s)
  • + Texture fill rate (GTexel/s) (+241.40 GTexel/s)
  • + Energy efficiency (+58.2)
  • + PassMark (overall) (+11701)
  • + 3DMark Fire Strike (+25298)
  • + Normalized score (+18.9)
B GeForce GTX 1050
  • + Memory clock (MHz) (+5508 MHz)
  • + TGP / TDP (W) (+30 W)
  • + Die size (mm²) (+49 mm²)

Detailed spec comparison

Spec Component A
GeForce RTX 5060
Component B
GeForce GTX 1050
Release year 2025 (+8) 2017
VRAM (GB) 8 GB (+6 GB) 2 GB
Memory type GDDR7 GDDR5
Memory clock (MHz) 1500 MHz 7008 MHz (+5508 MHz)
Bandwidth (GB/s) 448 GB/s (+336 GB/s) 112 GB/s
Memory bus (bit) 128 bit 128 bit
TGP / TDP (W) 45 W 75 W (+30 W)
Lithography (nm) 5 nm (-9 nm) 14 nm
Transistors (M) 21,900M (+18,600M) 3,300M
Die size (mm²) 181 mm² 132 mm² (+49 mm²)
Base clock (MHz) — —
Boost clock (MHz) — —
CUDA cores 3,840 (+3072) 768
TMUs 120 (+72) 48
ROPs 48 (+24) 24
RT cores 30 —
Tensor cores 120 —
FP32 performance (TFLOPS) 19.18 TFLOPS (+16.96 TFLOPS) 2.21 TFLOPS
Pixel fill rate (GPixel/s) 119.90 GPixel/s (+73.34 GPixel/s) 46.56 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate (GTexel/s) 299.60 GTexel/s (+241.40 GTexel/s) 58.20 GTexel/s
Energy efficiency 69.2 (+58.2) 11.0
PassMark (overall) 16,749 (+11701) 5,048
3DMark Time Spy — —
3DMark Fire Strike 31,366 (+25298) 6,068
Geekbench OpenCL — 17,429
Geekbench Vulkan — 15,766
Normalized score 50.3 (+18.9) 31.3

Only in component A

DLSS ReBAR ray_tracing

In both

CUDA

FPS in games (1080p)

Game GeForce RTX 5060 GeForce GTX 1050 Delta
Battlefield 5 130 FPS 51 FPS +154.9% (A)
CS:GO 240 FPS 240 FPS ≈
Counter-Strike 2 220 FPS 65 FPS +238.5% (A)
Cyberpunk 2077 95 FPS 24 FPS +295.8% (A)
Escape from Tarkov 120 FPS 54 FPS +122.2% (A)
Far Cry 5 130 FPS 39 FPS +233.3% (A)
Fortnite 170 FPS 132 FPS +28.8% (A)
Forza Horizon 4 150 FPS 55 FPS +172.7% (A)
Forza Horizon 5 255 FPS 35 FPS +628.6% (A)
GTA V 140 FPS 140 FPS ≈
Metro Exodus 95 FPS 19 FPS +400% (A)
Overwatch 240 FPS 240 FPS ≈
PUBG 140 FPS 140 FPS ≈
Resident Evil 4 Remake 110 FPS 24 FPS +358.3% (A)
The Witcher 3 140 FPS 39 FPS +259% (A)
Valorant 230 FPS 100 FPS +130% (A)

Specs from public sources (PassMark, Geekbench). FPS measured at 1080p medium settings.

Based on the comparison: GeForce RTX 5060 wins 15 of the comparable criteria. The choice depends on your use case.

🤔 How to choose

Universal advice for any use case.

  • Reliability vs price: reliability (median 50) ↔ price (median 385.1).
  • Weight vs CPU: mobility (median 48) ↔ overall performance (median 49.8).
  • Upgradeability vs battery: upgradability (median 50) ↔ battery life (median 2.8).