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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB technical specs and benchmarks

Summary

NVIDIA started GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB sales 18 August 2016 at a recommended price of 199 USD. This is a 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. An additional 1 6-pin power connectors are required, and power consumption is at 120 Watt.

It provides good gaming and benchmark performance at 30.89 percent of a leader's which is NVIDIA TITAN Xp.

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General info

Info on video card type (desktop or notebook), its architecture and sales start time and price.

Place in performance rating

Architecture

Pascal

Code name

GP106

Type

Desktop

Release date

18 August 2016

Launch price (MSRP)

199 USD

of 14999 (Quadro Plex 7000)

Technical specs

Quantitative parameters such as shaders number, GPU core clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly say of video card performance, but to be more precise you have to review it's benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines

1152

of 8192 (FirePro S9300 X2)

Core clock speed

1506 MHz

of 1607

Boost Clock

1708 MHz

of 1771 (GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile)

Transistor count

4,400 million

of 21100 (Tesla V100 PCIe)

Manufacturing process technology

16 nm

of 12 (Tesla V100 PCIe)

Power consumption (TDP)

120 Watt

of 900 (Tesla S2050)

Texture fill rate

123.0

of 512 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Floating-point performance

3,935 gflops

of 16384 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Information on video card 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). For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus - if the video card is inserted into the slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Length

250 mm

Width

2-slot

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin

Memory specs

Parameters of memory installed on the video card - type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. 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 32 (Radeon Pro Duo Polaris)

Memory bus width

192 Bit

of 8192 (FirePro S9300 X2)

Memory clock speed

8008 MHz

of 11408 (TITAN Xp)

Memory bandwidth

192.2 GB/s

of 1024 (FirePro S9300 X2)

Video outputs and ports

Video connectors present on the video card. Mostly actual for desktop video cards since notebook ones' available video connectors vastly depend on the notebook model.

Display Connectors

1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort