GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB: specs and benchmarks
Aggregate performance score
GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB provides acceptable gaming and benchmark performance at 24.02% of a leader's which is GeForce RTX 5090.
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Summary
NVIDIA started GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB sales 18 August 2016 at a recommended price of $199. This is a desktop graphics card based on a Pascal architecture and made with 16 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamer market. 3 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 2 GHz are supplied, and together with 192 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 192.2 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is a dual-slot graphics 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.
Primary details
Some basic facts about GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in the ranking | 249 | |
| Place by popularity | 26 | |
| Cost-effectiveness evaluation | 21.93 | |
| Power efficiency | 14.15 | of 100.00 (Radeon 890M) |
| Architecture | Pascal (2016−2021) | |
| GPU code name | GP106 | |
| Market segment | Desktop | |
| Release date | 18 August 2016 (8 years ago) | |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $199 | of 14,999 (Quadro Plex 7000) |
Cost-effectiveness evaluation
The higher the performance-to-price ratio, the better. We use the manufacturer's recommended prices for comparison.
Performance to price scatter graph
Detailed specifications
GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base 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 / CUDA cores | 1152 | of 24064 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell) |
| Core clock speed | 1506 MHz | of 2670 MHz (Arc B580) |
| Boost clock speed | 1708 MHz | of 3599 MHz (Radeon RX 7990 XTX) |
| Number of transistors | 4,400 million | of 153,000 million (Radeon Instinct MI300) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 16 nm | of 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 120 Watt | of 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem) |
| Texture fill rate | 123.0 | of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| Floating-point processing power | 3.935 TFLOPS | of 126 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell) |
| ROPs | 48 | of 512 (Moore Threads MTT S4000) |
| TMUs | 72 | of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
Form factor & compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).
| Interface | PCIe 3.0 x16 | |
| Length | 250 mm | |
| Width | 2-slot | |
| Supplementary power connectors | 1x 6-pin |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of memory installed on GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.
| Memory type | GDDR5 | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 3 GB | of 288 GB (Radeon Instinct MI325X) |
| Memory bus width | 192 Bit | of 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | 2002 MHz | of 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile) |
| Memory bandwidth | 192.2 GB/s | of 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
Connectivity and outputs
Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.
| Display Connectors | 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort | |
| HDMI | + |
API and SDK compatibility
APIs supported by GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 12 (12_1) | |
| Shader Model | 6.4 | |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | |
| OpenCL | 1.2 | |
| Vulkan | + | |
| CUDA | 6.1 |
Benchmark performance
Synthetic benchmark performance of GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.
Combined synthetic benchmark score
This is our combined benchmark score.
Passmark
This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.
Send your test results of GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB.
AMD equivalent
According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB is Radeon RX 6500 XT, which is nearly equal in speed and higher by 1 position in our ranking.
Here are some closest AMD rivals to GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB:
Similar GPUs
Here is our recommendation of several graphics cards that are more or less close in performance to the one reviewed.
Recommended processors
These processors are most commonly used with GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB according to our statistics.
