Component comparison

GeForce RTX 5060 vs GeForce RTX 2060

GeForce RTX 5060 vs GeForce RTX 2060 — detailed GPU comparison: performance, gaming FPS, specifications.

Advantages

A GeForce RTX 5060
  • + Release year (+6)
  • + VRAM (GB) (+2 GB)
  • + Bandwidth (GB/s) (+112 GB/s)
  • + Lithography (nm) (-7 nm)
  • + Transistors (M) (+11,100M)
  • + Die size (mm²) (+264 mm²)
  • + CUDA cores (+1920)
  • + FP32 performance (TFLOPS) (+12.73 TFLOPS)
  • + Pixel fill rate (GPixel/s) (+39.26 GPixel/s)
  • + Texture fill rate (GTexel/s) (+98.00 GTexel/s)
  • + Energy efficiency (+51.0)
  • + PassMark (overall) (+2655)
  • + 3DMark Fire Strike (+15035)
B GeForce RTX 2060
  • + Memory clock (MHz) (+250 MHz)
  • + Memory bus (bit) (+64 bit)
  • + TGP / TDP (W) (+70 W)
  • + Tensor cores (+120)
  • + Normalized score (+16.1)

Detailed spec comparison

Spec Component A
GeForce RTX 5060
Component B
GeForce RTX 2060
Release year 2025 (+6) 2019
VRAM (GB) 8 GB (+2 GB) 6 GB
Memory type GDDR7 GDDR6
Memory clock (MHz) 1500 MHz 1750 MHz (+250 MHz)
Bandwidth (GB/s) 448 GB/s (+112 GB/s) 336 GB/s
Memory bus (bit) 128 bit 192 bit (+64 bit)
TGP / TDP (W) 45 W 115 W (+70 W)
Lithography (nm) 5 nm (-7 nm) 12 nm
Transistors (M) 21,900M (+11,100M) 10,800M
Die size (mm²) 181 mm² (+264 mm²) 445 mm²
Base clock (MHz) — —
Boost clock (MHz) — —
CUDA cores 3,840 (+1920) 1,920
TMUs 120 120
ROPs 48 48
RT cores 30 30
Tensor cores 120 240 (+120)
FP32 performance (TFLOPS) 19.18 TFLOPS (+12.73 TFLOPS) 6.45 TFLOPS
Pixel fill rate (GPixel/s) 119.90 GPixel/s (+39.26 GPixel/s) 80.64 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate (GTexel/s) 299.60 GTexel/s (+98.00 GTexel/s) 201.60 GTexel/s
Energy efficiency 69.2 (+51.0) 18.1
PassMark (overall) 16,749 (+2655) 14,094
3DMark Time Spy — 6,141
3DMark Fire Strike 31,366 (+15035) 16,331
Geekbench OpenCL — 71,412
Geekbench Vulkan — 65,858
Normalized score 50.3 66.4 (+16.1)

Only in component A

ReBAR

In both

CUDA DLSS ray_tracing

FPS in games (1080p)

Game GeForce RTX 5060 GeForce RTX 2060 Delta
Battlefield 5 130 FPS 104 FPS +25% (A)
CS:GO 240 FPS 240 FPS ≈
Counter-Strike 2 220 FPS 150 FPS +46.7% (A)
Cyberpunk 2077 95 FPS 60 FPS +58.3% (A)
Escape from Tarkov 120 FPS 121 FPS 0.8% (B)
Far Cry 5 130 FPS 96 FPS +35.4% (A)
Fortnite 170 FPS 162 FPS +4.9% (A)
Forza Horizon 4 150 FPS 108 FPS +38.9% (A)
Forza Horizon 5 255 FPS 100 FPS +155% (A)
GTA V 140 FPS 140 FPS ≈
Metro Exodus 95 FPS 56 FPS +69.6% (A)
Overwatch 240 FPS 240 FPS ≈
PUBG 140 FPS 140 FPS ≈
Resident Evil 4 Remake 110 FPS 65 FPS +69.2% (A)
The Witcher 3 140 FPS 111 FPS +26.1% (A)
Valorant 230 FPS 223 FPS +3.1% (A)

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

Based on the comparison: GeForce RTX 5060 wins 13 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).