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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB: specs and benchmarks

Summary

NVIDIA started GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB sales 18 August 2016 at a recommended price of $199. This is Pascal architecture desktop card based on 16 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at gamers. 3 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 8.01 GHz are supplied, and together with 192 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 192.2 GB / s.

Compatibility-wise, this is 2-slot card attached via PCIe 3.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 250 mm. 1x 6-pin power connector is required, and power consumption is at 120 Watt.

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General info

Of GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB's architecture, market type and release date.

Place in performance rating

not rated

Architecture

Pascal

Code name

GP106

Type

Desktop

Release date

18 August 2016

Launch price (MSRP)

$199

of 14999 (Quadro Plex 7000)

Technical specs

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB's general performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines

1152

of 8192 (Radeon RX Vega 64)

Core clock speed

1506 MHz

of 1620 (Quadro RTX 5000)

Boost Clock

1708 MHz

of 1815 (Quadro RTX 5000)

Transistor count

4,400 million

of 21100

Manufacturing process technology

16 nm

of 7 (Radeon Instinct Vega)

Power consumption (TDP)

120 Watt

of 900 (Tesla S2050)

Texture fill rate

123.0 GTexel / s

of 1760 (Quadro4 400 NVS PCI)

Floating-point performance

3,935 gflops

of 16384 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Information on GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB's compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop video cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Length

250 mm

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin

Memory

Parameters of memory installed on GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors don't have dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

3 GB

of 32784 (Radeon Pro Duo Polaris)

Memory bus width

192 Bit

of 8192 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Memory clock speed

8008 MHz

of 14000

Memory bandwidth