NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile: specs and benchmarks
Summary
NVIDIA started GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile sales 15 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 8.01 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 120 Watt.
It provides good gaming and benchmark performance at 42.46 percent of a leader's which is NVIDIA Quadro RTX 6000.
General info
Technical specs
Memory
Technologies
Benchmarks
Gaming
AMD equivalent
Advices and comments
General info
Of GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile's architecture, market type and release date.
Value for money (0-100)
52.54
Architecture
Pascal
Code name
GP106B
Type
Laptop
Release date
15 August 2016
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.
CUDA cores
1280
Transistor count
4,400 million
of 21100
Maximum GPU temperature
94 °C
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
Memory clock speed
8008 MHz
of 14000
Shared memory
-
Video outputs and ports
Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile.
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.
3D Vision
+
GameStream
+
GPU Boost
3.0
VR Ready
+
CUDA
+
Surround
+
Multi-Projection
+
Multi Monitor
+
Ansel
+
DSR
+
Virtual Reality
+
ShadowWorks
+
API support
APIs supported by GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile, sometimes including their particular versions.
DirectX
12.0 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.5
of 4.6
Vulkan
+
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
42.46
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
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. All GPU types participate.
AMD equivalent
We believe that the nearest equivalent to GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile from AMD is Radeon RX 580 Mobile, which is slower by 7% and lower by 13 positions in our rating.
