GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X: specs and benchmarks

Summary

NVIDIA started GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X sales 18 October 2018. 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 GDDR5X memory clocked at 1 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 6 GB GDDR5X: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in the ranking	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100
Architecture	Pascal (2016−2021)
GPU code name	GP104
Market segment	Desktop
Release date	18 October 2018 (6 years ago)

Detailed specifications

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X'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 GDDR5X's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	1280	of 21760 (GeForce RTX 5090)
Core clock speed	1506 MHz	of 2670 MHz (Arc B580)
Boost clock speed	1709 MHz	of 3599 MHz (Radeon RX 7990 XTX)
Number of transistors	7,200 million	of 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB)
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	136.7	of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Floating-point processing power	4.375 TFLOPS	of 109.7 (GeForce RTX 5090)
ROPs	48	of 192 (Radeon RX 7900 XTX)
TMUs	80	of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)

Form factor & compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X 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 6 GB GDDR5X: 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	GDDR5X
Maximum RAM amount	6 GB	of 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Memory bus width	192 Bit	of 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed	1001 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 6 GB GDDR5X. 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 compatibility

APIs supported by GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX	12 (12_1)
Shader Model	6.4
OpenGL	4.6
OpenCL	1.2
Vulkan	1.2.131
CUDA	6.1

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

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