EVGA GeForce GTX 1060 GAMING (Single Fan) 3GB
vs
GALAX GeForce GTX 1050 OC


GPU comparison with benchmarks

The EVGA GeForce GTX 1060 GAMING (Single Fan) 3GB has 1152 shader units and these clock a maximum of 1.71 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 3.94 TFLOPS.

The GALAX GeForce GTX 1050 OC has 640 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 1.47 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 1.88 TFLOPS.

GPU

The EVGA GeForce GTX 1060 GAMING (Single Fan) 3GB is equipped with a graphics chip of the Pascal architecture, which has 9 streaming multiprocessors.

The graphics card GALAX GeForce GTX 1050 OC is based on the Pascal architecture and is equipped with 5 execution units.
EVGA GeForce GTX 1060 GAMING (Single Fan) 3GB GPU GALAX GeForce GTX 1050 OC
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB Based on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 2GB
GP106-300-A1 GPU Chip GP107-300-A1
Pascal Architecture Pascal
9 Streaming Multiprocessors 5
1152 Shader 640
48 Render Output Units 32
72 Texture Units 40
0 Raytracing Cores 0

Memory

The EVGA GeForce GTX 1060 GAMING (Single Fan) 3GB is equipped with a 3 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory, which is equipped with 2.002 GHz clocks.

The GALAX GeForce GTX 1050 OC has a 2 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory and the memory clock is 1.752GHz.

3 GB Memory Size 2 GB
GDDR5 Memory Type GDDR5
2.002 GHz Memory Clock 1.752 GHz
8.0 Gbps Memory Speed 7.0 Gbps
192 GB/s Memory bandwidth 112 GB/s
192 bit Memory Interface 128 bit

Clock Speeds

The EVGA GeForce GTX 1060 GAMING (Single Fan) 3GB has a turbo clock of 1.708 GHz. The turbo frequency of the GALAX GeForce GTX 1050 OC is 1.468 GHz.

1.506 GHz Base Clock 1.366 GHz
1.708 GHz Boost Clock 1.468 GHz
Avg (Game) Clock
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The EVGA GeForce GTX 1060 GAMING (Single Fan) 3GB has 1 x 6-Pin connectors through which it is supplied with power. The manufacturer specifies the maximum operating temperature of the graphics card as 94 °C.

The GALAX GeForce GTX 1050 OC is equipped with a PCIe power connector that supplies it with power. The maximum operating temperature of the card is 97 °C.

120 W TDP 75 W
-- TDP (up) --
94 °C Tjunction max 97 °C
1 x 6-Pin PCIe-Power

Cooler & Fans

The graphics processor and graphics memory of the EVGA GeForce GTX 1060 GAMING (Single Fan) 3GB are cooled with a Air cooling.

The GALAX GeForce GTX 1050 OC is cooled by a Air cooling.

Axial Fan-Type Axial
1 x 90 mm Fan 1 1 x 90 mm
-- Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
dB Noise (Idle) 0 dB
-- Noise (Load) --

Connectivity

The EVGA GeForce GTX 1060 GAMING (Single Fan) 3GB supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.2.

The GALAX GeForce GTX 1050 OC supports HDCP in version 2.2 and all previous versions.

4 Max. Displays 3
2.2 HDCP-Version 2.2
1x HDMI v2.0b HDMI Ports 1x HDMI v2.0b
3x DP v1.4 DP Ports 1x DP v1.4
1 DVI Ports 1
-- VGA Ports --
-- USB-C Ports --

Featureset

The EVGA GeForce GTX 1060 GAMING (Single Fan) 3GB supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12_1.

The GALAX GeForce GTX 1050 OC supports Microsoft's DirectX version 12_1.

7680x4320 Max. resolution 7680x4320
12_1 DirectX 12_1
No Raytracing No
Yes DLSS / FSR Yes
No LED lighting LED No LED lighting

Supported Video Codecs

This area lists which video codecs can be decoded or encoded by the graphics cards in hardware. As a result, the power consumption can be reduced due to a lower processor load.

Decode / Encode h264 Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode h265 / HEVC Decode / Encode
No AV1 No
No VP8 No
Decode VP9 Decode

Dimensions

The EVGA GeForce GTX 1060 GAMING (Single Fan) 3GB is -- wide and therefore needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the GALAX GeForce GTX 1050 OC is -- and thus requires the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

173 mm Length 196 mm
111 mm Height 126 mm
-- Width 39 mm
2 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 2 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight --
PCIe 3.0 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 3.0 x 16

Additional data

Manufactured using the 16 nanometer process, EVGA GeForce GTX 1060 GAMING (Single Fan) 3GB was released in Q3/2016.

The GALAX GeForce GTX 1050 OC published in Q3/2016 is manufactured with a structure width of 14 nanometers.

03G-P4-6160-KR Part-no 50NPH8DSN8OC
Q3/2016 Release date Q3/2016
199 $ (Reference) Launch Price 109 $ (Reference)
16 nm Structure size 14 nm
data sheet Documents data sheet

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Benchmark results

3DMark Benchmark (DirectX, Raytracing)

3DMark is a benchmark program that determines the performance of certain components of a computer and then reports the performance as a numerical value.

Time Spy Extreme Graphics score

Battlefield 5

Battlefield 5 is a visually stunning game that is ideal as a graphics card benchmark. We test the game with maximum details on Windows 10.

3840x2160 (2160p)

2560x1440 (1440p)

1920x1080 (1080p)

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL, Vulkan, Metal)

Geekbench 6 is a cross-platform benchmark for main processors, which also carries out 3 different graphics benchmarks and outputs them in the form of a numerical value.

Geekbench 6 - OpenCL

Geekbench 6 - Vulkan

FP32 Performance (Single-precision TFLOPS)

The theoretical computing power of the graphics card with single precision (32 bit) in TFLOPS indicates how many trillion FP32 floating point operations the graphics card (GPU) can perform per second.

FP32 (TFLOPS)

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