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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile: specs and benchmarks

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Summary

NVIDIA started GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile sales 18 August 2016 at a recommended price of $237.11. This is Pascal architecture notebook card based on 16 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at gamers. 6 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 8 GHz are supplied, and together with 192 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 192 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is card attached via PCIe 3.0 x16 interface. 6-pin power connector is required, and power consumption is at 80 Watt.

It provides good gaming and benchmark performance at 32.10 percent of a leader's which is NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090.

General info

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

Place in performance rating

138

Value for money (0-100)

3.54

Architecture

Pascal

GPU code name

N17E-G1

Market segment

Laptop

Release date

18 August 2016

Launch price (MSRP)

$237.11

Price now

$240

of 10799 (Radeon Pro Vega II)

Technical specs

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

Pipelines / CUDA cores

1280

of 10752 (GA102)

CUDA cores

1280

Core clock speed

1506 MHz

of 2233 (Playstation 5 GPU)

Boost Clock

1708 MHz

of 2410 (Radeon RX 6900 XTX)

Transistor count

4,400 million

of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile)

Manufacturing process technology

16 nm

of 5 (Apple M1 GPU)

Power consumption (TDP)

80 Watt

of 900 (Tesla S2050)

Maximum GPU temperature

94 °C

Texture fill rate

133.6

of 771.2 (Radeon RX 6900 XTX)

Floating-point performance

4,275 gflops

of 2918.4 (GRID K340)

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Information on GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile's compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.

Laptop size

large

Bus support

PCIe 3.0

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Memory

Parameters of memory installed on GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile: 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

6 GB

of 80 (A100 SXM4 80 GB)

Memory bus width

192 Bit

of 6144 (GRID A100A)

Memory clock speed

8000 MHz

of 19500 (GeForce RTX 3090)

Memory bandwidth

192 GB/s

of 1024 (Radeon VII)

Shared memory

Video outputs and ports

Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference video cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model.

Display Connectors

No outputs

Display Connectors

DP 1.43, HDMI 2.0b, Dual Link-DVI

Multi monitor support

HDCP

2.2

G-SYNC support

Technologies

Technological solutions and APIs supported by GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile. You'll probably need this information if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

GameStream

GPU Boost

3.0

VR Ready

API support

APIs supported by GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX

12 (12_1)

Shader Model

6.4

OpenGL

4.5

of 4.6 (GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile)

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2.131

CUDA

Benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmarks performance of GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile. Note that overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range.

Overall benchmark performance

32.10

3DMark Ice Storm GPU

298378

3DMark Cloud Gate GPU

74605

3DMark Fire Strike Score

9739

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics

11558

3DMark 11 Performance GPU

14693

3DMark Vantage Performance

34127

SPECviewperf 12 - Solidworks

SPECviewperf 12 - specvp12 sw-03

SPECviewperf 12 - Siemens NX

SPECviewperf 12 - specvp12 snx-02

SPECviewperf 12 - Showcase

SPECviewperf 12 - specvp12 showcase-01

SPECviewperf 12 - Medical

SPECviewperf 12 - specvp12 mediacal-01

SPECviewperf 12 - Maya

SPECviewperf 12 - specvp12 maya-04

SPECviewperf 12 - Energy

3.5

SPECviewperf 12 - specvp12 energy-01

3.5

SPECviewperf 12 - Creo

SPECviewperf 12 - specvp12 creo-01

SPECviewperf 12 - Catia

SPECviewperf 12 - specvp12 catia-04

Passmark

8160

Game benchmarks

Let's see how good GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS. Comparisons with system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect real performance inaccurately.

Relative perfomance

Overall GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile performance compared to its nearest competitors.

120.06 %

GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q

116.32 %

GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 6 GB

110.09 %

Radeon RX 580 Mobile

108.01 %

GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Max-Q

102.21 %

Radeon HD 8970M Crossfire

100.37 %

GeForce GTX 880M SLI

100 %

GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile

95.55 %

GeForce GTX 1650 Ti Mobile

Radeon R9 M290X Crossfire

90.19 %

GeForce GTX 780M SLI

AMD equivalent

We believe that the nearest equivalent to GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile from AMD is Radeon HD 8970M Crossfire, which is faster by 2% and higher by 4 positions in our rating.