NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060
About GPU
The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 is a powerful GPU designed for desktop gaming and professional applications. With a base clock of 2235 MHz and a boost clock of 2520 MHz, this GPU offers impressive performance for demanding graphics tasks. The 8GB of GDDR7 memory and a memory clock of 2500 MHz ensure smooth and efficient operation, even when handling large datasets and high-resolution textures.
One of the standout features of the RTX 5060 is its 4608 shading units, which enable realistic lighting, shadow, and reflection effects in games and rendering applications. Additionally, the 32 MB of L2 cache helps reduce latency and improve overall system responsiveness, making this GPU a great choice for gamers and content creators alike.
With a TDP of 170W, the RTX 5060 strikes a good balance between performance and power efficiency, making it suitable for a wide range of desktop systems. The theoretical performance of 22.756 TFLOPS further underscores the capabilities of this GPU, allowing it to handle even the most demanding workloads with ease.
Overall, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 is a solid choice for anyone in need of a high-performance GPU for gaming, content creation, or other graphics-intensive tasks. Its combination of powerful hardware, ample memory, and efficient design make it a compelling option for desktop users looking to elevate their visual experiences.
Basic
Label Name
NVIDIA
Platform
Desktop
Launch Date
January 2025
Model Name
GeForce RTX 5060
Generation
GeForce 50
Base Clock
2235 MHz
Boost Clock
2520 MHz
Bus Interface
PCIe 5.0 x16
Transistors
Unknown
RT Cores
36
Tensor Cores
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Tensor Cores are specialized processing units designed specifically for deep learning, providing higher training and inference performance compared to FP32 training. They enable rapid computations in areas such as computer vision, natural language processing, speech recognition, text-to-speech conversion, and personalized recommendations. The two most notable applications of Tensor Cores are DLSS (Deep Learning Super Sampling) and AI Denoiser for noise reduction.
144
TMUs
?
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) serve as components of the GPU, which are capable of rotating, scaling, and distorting binary images, and then placing them as textures onto any plane of a given 3D model. This process is called texture mapping.
144
Foundry
TSMC
Architecture
Blackwell 2.0
Memory Specifications
Memory Size
8GB
Memory Type
GDDR7
Memory Bus
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The memory bus width refers to the number of bits of data that the video memory can transfer within a single clock cycle. The larger the bus width, the greater the amount of data that can be transmitted instantaneously, making it one of the crucial parameters of video memory. The memory bandwidth is calculated as: Memory Bandwidth = Memory Frequency x Memory Bus Width / 8. Therefore, when the memory frequencies are similar, the memory bus width will determine the size of the memory bandwidth.
128bit
Memory Clock
2500 MHz
Bandwidth
?
Memory bandwidth refers to the data transfer rate between the graphics chip and the video memory. It is measured in bytes per second, and the formula to calculate it is: memory bandwidth = working frequency × memory bus width / 8 bits.
80.00GB/s
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
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Pixel fill rate refers to the number of pixels a graphics processing unit (GPU) can render per second, measured in MPixels/s (million pixels per second) or GPixels/s (billion pixels per second). It is the most commonly used metric to evaluate the pixel processing performance of a graphics card.
121.0 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
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Texture fill rate refers to the number of texture map elements (texels) that a GPU can map to pixels in a single second.
362.9 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
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An important metric for measuring GPU performance is floating-point computing capability. Half-precision floating-point numbers (16-bit) are used for applications like machine learning, where lower precision is acceptable. Single-precision floating-point numbers (32-bit) are used for common multimedia and graphics processing tasks, while double-precision floating-point numbers (64-bit) are required for scientific computing that demands a wide numeric range and high accuracy.
23.22 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
?
An important metric for measuring GPU performance is floating-point computing capability. Double-precision floating-point numbers (64-bit) are required for scientific computing that demands a wide numeric range and high accuracy, while single-precision floating-point numbers (32-bit) are used for common multimedia and graphics processing tasks. Half-precision floating-point numbers (16-bit) are used for applications like machine learning, where lower precision is acceptable.
362.9 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
?
An important metric for measuring GPU performance is floating-point computing capability. Single-precision floating-point numbers (32-bit) are used for common multimedia and graphics processing tasks, while double-precision floating-point numbers (64-bit) are required for scientific computing that demands a wide numeric range and high accuracy. Half-precision floating-point numbers (16-bit) are used for applications like machine learning, where lower precision is acceptable.
22.756
TFLOPS
Miscellaneous
SM Count
?
Multiple Streaming Processors (SPs), along with other resources, form a Streaming Multiprocessor (SM), which is also referred to as a GPU's major core. These additional resources include components such as warp schedulers, registers, and shared memory. The SM can be considered the heart of the GPU, similar to a CPU core, with registers and shared memory being scarce resources within the SM.
36
Shading Units
?
The most fundamental processing unit is the Streaming Processor (SP), where specific instructions and tasks are executed. GPUs perform parallel computing, which means multiple SPs work simultaneously to process tasks.
4608
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
32 MB
TDP
170W
Vulkan Version
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Vulkan is a cross-platform graphics and compute API by Khronos Group, offering high performance and low CPU overhead. It lets developers control the GPU directly, reduces rendering overhead, and supports multi-threading and multi-core processors.
1.3
OpenCL Version
3.0
OpenGL
4.6
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
CUDA
9.1
Power Connectors
1x 16-pin
Shader Model
6.7
ROPs
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The Raster Operations Pipeline (ROPs) is primarily responsible for handling lighting and reflection calculations in games, as well as managing effects like anti-aliasing (AA), high resolution, smoke, and fire. The more demanding the anti-aliasing and lighting effects in a game, the higher the performance requirements for the ROPs; otherwise, it may result in a sharp drop in frame rate.
48
Suggested PSU
450 W
Benchmarks
FP32 (float)
Score
22.756
TFLOPS
Compared to Other GPU
FP32 (float)
/ TFLOPS