GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps: specs and benchmarks

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Summary

NVIDIA started GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps sales 20 April 2017 at a recommended price of $299. 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. 6 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 2.26 GHz are supplied, and together with 192 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 216.7 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 6 GB 9Gbps: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in the rankingnot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100
ArchitecturePascal (2016−2021)
GPU code nameGP106
Market segmentDesktop
Release date20 April 2017 (8 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$299 of 14,999 (Quadro Plex 7000)

Detailed specifications

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores1280of 960 (GeForce GTX 660)
Core clock speed1506 MHzof 980 (GeForce GT 755M SLI)
Boost clock speed1709 MHzof 1000 (HD Graphics (Haswell))
Number of transistors4,400 millionof 100,000 million (Data Center GPU Max 1100)
Manufacturing process technology16 nmof 0.003 MB (Arc Graphics 140V)
Power consumption (TDP)120 Wattof 235 (FirePro S9150)
Texture fill rate136.7of 1,968 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell)
Floating-point processing power4.375 TFLOPSof 126 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell)
ROPs48of 512 (Moore Threads MTT S4000)
TMUs80of 896 (Data Center GPU Max 1350)
L1 Cache480 KBof 64 MB (Data Center GPU Max 1550)
L2 Cache1536 KBof 408 MB (Data Center GPU Max 1350)

Form factor & compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps 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).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16
Length250 mm
Width2-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of memory installed on GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps: 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 typeGDDR5
Maximum RAM amount6 GBof 288 GB (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Memory bus width192 Bitof 384 (GeForce GTX 980 Ti)
Memory clock speed2257 MHzof 16384000 MB (GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile)
Memory bandwidth216.7 GB/sof 983040 MB (GeForce RTX 5080)

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps. 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 Connectors1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
HDMI+

API and SDK compatibility

APIs supported by GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX12 (12_1)
Shader Model6.4
OpenGL4.6
OpenCL1.2
Vulkan1.2.131
CUDA6.1

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.



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AMD equivalent

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