GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce GTX 1060 6G Benchmark and Specs

The GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce GTX 1060 6G has 1280 shaders and 10 execution units. The graphics card thus achieves a theoretical FP32 computing power of 4.77 TFLOPS.

Based on

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB

GPU Chip

GP106-400-A1 (Pascal)

Streaming Multiprocessors

10

Shader

1280

Render Output Units

48

Texture Units

80

The GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce GTX 1060 6G can use 6 GB graphics memory of the type GDDR5. The graphics card thus achieves a memory bandwidth of 192 GB/s on a 192 bit wide memory interface.

Memory Size

6 GB

Memory Type

GDDR5

Memory Clock

2.002 GHz

Memory Speed

8.0 Gbps

Memory bandwidth

192 GB/s

Memory Interface

192 bit

The base clock frequency of the GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce GTX 1060 6G is 1.607 GHz. A high clock frequency (even in turbo mode) can greatly increase the speed of a graphics card.

Base Clock

1.607 GHz+7 %

Boost Clock

1.860 GHz+9 %

Avg (Game) Clock

1.835 GHz

Overclocking

Yes

The TDP (Thermal Design Power) of the GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce GTX 1060 6G is 120 W. The graphics card is supplied with energy via the 1 x 8-Pin connector.

TDP

120 W

Tjunction max

94 °C

PCIe-Power

1 x 8-Pin

The GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce GTX 1060 6G has a total of 3 Axial fans to cool the graphics processor and graphics memory.

Fan-Type

Axial

Fan 1

3 x 80 mm

Cooler-Type

Air cooling

Up to 4 screens can be connected to the GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce GTX 1060 6G.

Max. Displays

4

HDCP

2.2

HDMI

1x HDMI 2.0b

DisplayPort

3x DP 1.4

DVI

1

The GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce GTX 1060 6G has a maximum resolution of 7680x4320 pixels. The graphics card supports the DirectX 12_1 standard.

Max. resolution

7680x4320

DirectX

12_1

Raytracing

No

DLSS / FSR

Yes

LED

GIGABYTE RGB Fusion

The video codecs accelerated in hardware by the GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce GTX 1060 6G reduce the processor load and ensure lower energy consumption.

h264

Decode / Encode

h265 / HEVC

Decode / Encode

VP8

No

VP9

Decode

AV1

No

The GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce GTX 1060 6G is 280 mm long and 111 mm high. With a width of 38 mm, the graphics card requires 2 PCIe-Slots in the case.

Length

280 mm

Height

111 mm

Width

38 mm

Width (Slots)

2 PCIe-Slots

SFF-Ready

No

The GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce GTX 1060 6G made in 16 nm was published in Q3/2016 for 249 $.

GPU Interface

PCIe 3.0 x 16

Release date

Q3/2016

Launch Price

249 $ (Reference)

Structure size

16 nm

Part-no

GV-N1060AORUS-6GD

Documents

data sheet