MSI GeForce GTX 1060 ARMOR 6GD5X OC Benchmark and Specs

The MSI GeForce GTX 1060 ARMOR 6GD5X OC has 10 execution units with 1280 shaders. This gives the graphics card a theoretical FP32 computing power of 4.51 TFLOPS.

Based on

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB (GDDR5X)

GPU Chip

GP104-150-KA-A1 (Pascal)

Streaming Multiprocessors

10

Shader

1280

Render Output Units

48

Texture Units

80

The MSI GeForce GTX 1060 ARMOR 6GD5X OC is equipped with 6 GB graphics memory of the type GDDR5X. The memory clock of the graphics card is 1.001 GHz and the speed is 8 Gbps.

Memory Size

6 GB

Memory Type

GDDR5X

Memory Clock

1.001 GHz

Memory Speed

8.0 Gbps

Memory bandwidth

192 GB/s

Memory Interface

192 bit

The base frequency of this graphics card is 1.544 GHz and the manufacturer specifies the maximum turbo clock as 1.759 GHz. If supported (see below), the performance can be further increased by overclocking.

Base Clock

1.544 GHz+3 %

Boost Clock

1.759 GHz+3 %

Overclocking

Yes

The MSI GeForce GTX 1060 ARMOR 6GD5X OC is powered by 1 x 6-Pin, 1 x 8-Pin connectors. The TDP (Thermal Design Power) of the graphics card is 120 W.

TDP

120 W

Tjunction max

94 °C

PCIe-Power

1 x 6-Pin, 1 x 8-Pin

Graphics processor and graphics memory of the MSI GeForce GTX 1060 ARMOR 6GD5X OC are cooled by a Air cooling.

Fan-Type

Axial

Fan 1

2 x 100 mm

Cooler-Type

Air cooling

Up to 4 monitors can be operated with the MSI GeForce GTX 1060 ARMOR 6GD5X OC.

Max. Displays

4

HDCP

2.2

HDMI

1x HDMI 2.0b

DisplayPort

3x DP 1.4

DVI

1

With the MSI GeForce GTX 1060 ARMOR 6GD5X OC it is possible to operate a screen with a resolution of up to 7680x4320 pixels. Furthermore, the DirectX standard version 12_1 is supported.

Max. resolution

7680x4320

DirectX

12_1

Raytracing

No

DLSS / FSR

Yes

LED

No LED lighting

This area lists the video codecs that the MSI GeForce GTX 1060 ARMOR 6GD5X OC can decode or encode in hardware in order to minimize the processor load, which leads to lower power consumption.

h264

Decode / Encode

h265 / HEVC

Decode / Encode

VP8

No

VP9

Decode

AV1

No

The MSI GeForce GTX 1060 ARMOR 6GD5X OC needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in a case. It is 276 mm long, 140 mm high and 41 mm wide.

Length

276 mm

Height

140 mm

Width

41 mm

Width (Slots)

2 PCIe-Slots

Weight

846 g

SFF-Ready

No

The MSI GeForce GTX 1060 ARMOR 6GD5X OC was released in Q3/2018 at a price of 249 $. The graphics card manufactured in 16 nm is connected to the system via PCIe 3.0 x 16 lanes.

GPU Interface

PCIe 3.0 x 16

Release date

Q3/2018

Launch Price

249 $ (Reference)

Structure size

16 nm

Documents

data sheet