NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile: specs and benchmarks

General info
Technical specs
Memory
Technologies
Benchmarks
Gaming
AMD equivalent
User rating
Advices and comments
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.
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
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
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
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
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
41
SPECviewperf 12 - specvp12 sw-03
41
SPECviewperf 12 - Siemens NX
6
SPECviewperf 12 - specvp12 snx-02
6
SPECviewperf 12 - Showcase
61
SPECviewperf 12 - specvp12 showcase-01
61
SPECviewperf 12 - Medical
28
SPECviewperf 12 - specvp12 mediacal-01
28
SPECviewperf 12 - Maya
81
SPECviewperf 12 - specvp12 maya-04
81
SPECviewperf 12 - Energy
3.5
SPECviewperf 12 - specvp12 energy-01
3.5
SPECviewperf 12 - Creo
35
SPECviewperf 12 - specvp12 creo-01
35
SPECviewperf 12 - Catia
49
SPECviewperf 12 - specvp12 catia-04
49
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.
100 %
GeForce GTX 1060 MobileAMD 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.