Gainward GeForce RTX 5060 Ghost OC VS Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB

The Gainward GeForce RTX 5060 Ghost OC has a GPU clock speed of 2280 MHz, while the Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB is slightly higher at 2410 MHz. For GPU turbo speeds, the Gainward model reaches 2535 MHz, while the Nvidia variant hits 2570 MHz, providing a small difference in peak performance.

In terms of pixel rate, the Gainward RTX 5060 Ghost OC offers 121.7 GPixel/s, which is a bit lower than the Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB's 123.4 GPixel/s. The floating-point performance of the Gainward card is 19.47 TFLOPS, while the Nvidia card offers 23.69 TFLOPS, making it more capable in terms of raw computational power.

The texture rate for the Gainward RTX 5060 Ghost OC is 304.2 GTexels/s, while the Nvidia card offers a much higher rate of 370.1 GTexels/s. Additionally, the Gainward model features 3840 shading units, while the Nvidia model comes with 4608 shading units, also showing a noticeable difference in processing power. Both cards have 48 render output units (ROPs), and both support Double Precision Floating Point (DPFP), though the Nvidia card has more texture mapping units (TMUs) at 144 compared to the Gainward's 120.

Both the Gainward GeForce RTX 5060 Ghost OC and the Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB share the same effective memory speed of 28000 MHz and the same maximum memory bandwidth of 448 GB/s, ensuring similar performance in these areas. Both cards also feature GDDR7 memory, and both have a 128-bit memory bus width, so there's no difference in these fundamental memory specifications.

The key difference between these two cards is in the amount of VRAM. The Gainward RTX 5060 Ghost OC is equipped with 8GB of VRAM, whereas the Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB has 16GB of VRAM, offering double the memory capacity. Both cards support ECC (Error-Correcting Code) memory, ensuring data integrity.

Overall, while both models share many memory specs, the Nvidia card's 16GB of VRAM stands out as the main differentiator, potentially benefiting users who require more memory for demanding applications.

The Gainward GeForce RTX 5060 Ghost OC and the Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB both support DirectX 12 Ultimate, OpenGL 4.6, and OpenCL 3, ensuring compatibility with the latest gaming and rendering technologies. Both cards also support multi-display technology, ray tracing, and 3D, offering similar feature sets in these areas. Additionally, both support DLSS, but neither card has XeSS (XMX) support.

In terms of specific features, both cards support Intel Resizable BAR (AMD SAM is not mentioned). However, the Gainward RTX 5060 Ghost OC comes with RGB lighting, while the Nvidia RTX 5060 Ti 16GB does not feature RGB lighting.

Both models can support up to four displays, and neither card has a Light Hash Rate (LHR) limiter, making them both suitable for general-purpose tasks and gaming without restrictions on mining performance.

Both the Gainward GeForce RTX 5060 Ghost OC and the Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB come with 1 HDMI port, supporting HDMI 2.1b, ensuring high-quality video output. Additionally, both models feature 3 DisplayPort outputs, but neither has USB-C ports, DVI outputs, or mini DisplayPort outputs.

In terms of port configurations, the two cards are identical, offering the same number of HDMI and DisplayPort outputs with no additional port types provided on either card.

Overall, the ports available on these two cards are the same, with each providing sufficient options for multi-display setups but lacking some of the more modern ports like USB-C or mini DisplayPort.

Both the Gainward GeForce RTX 5060 Ghost OC and the Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB use the same GPU architecture, Blackwell, and are built on a 5 nm semiconductor process with 21,900 million transistors, so there's no difference in these core characteristics. Both cards also feature PCI Express version 5.0 support, ensuring high-speed data transfer between the GPU and the rest of the system.

The main differences between the two models lie in their thermal design power (TDP) and physical dimensions. The Gainward RTX 5060 Ghost OC has a lower TDP of 145W, compared to the Nvidia RTX 5060 Ti 16GB's 180W. This suggests the Nvidia card may require more power for its operations. In terms of size, the Gainward model is larger, with a width of 262.1 mm and a height of 126.3 mm, while the Nvidia card is more compact, measuring 241 mm in width and 111 mm in height.

Neither card features air-water cooling, and both share the same number of transistors and semiconductor size, ensuring similar fundamental architecture. Overall, the differences in TDP and physical dimensions are the main factors to consider when choosing between these two cards.