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MSI GeForce GTX 1060 GAMING X+ 6G Benchmark and Specs

Here you will find all technical data as well as various benchmarks of the MSI GeForce GTX 1060 GAMING X+ 6G. Up to 4 screens with a maximum resolution of up to 7680x4320 can be operated with this graphics card. The maximum turbo clock of the MSI GeForce GTX 1060 GAMING X+ 6G is 1.809 GHz, so the graphics card achieves an FP32 computing power of 4.64 TFLOPS.

FP32: 4.64TFLOPS
Boost Clock: 1.81GHz
Memory: 6GB GDDR5
TDP: 120 W

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Technical details

GPU

The MSI GeForce GTX 1060 GAMING X+ 6G is equipped with 10 execution and 1280 shader units. With single precision, a theoretical FP32 computing power of 4.64 TFLOPS is achieved.

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

Memory

The MSI GeForce GTX 1060 GAMING X+ 6G has a 192 bit wide memory interface, with which a memory bandwidth of 219 GB/s is achieved. In total, 6 GB GDDR5 graphics memory is available for the graphics card.

Memory Size: 6 GB
Memory Type: GDDR5
Memory Clock: 2.282 GHz
Memory Speed: 9.1 Gbps
Memory bandwidth: 219 GB/s
Memory Interface: 192 bit

Clock Speeds

The manufacturer specifies the memory clock of the MSI GeForce GTX 1060 GAMING X+ 6G with 1.506 GHz (base clock) or with 1.809 GHz (turbo clock). If overclocking is supported (see below), the clock rate can be increased even further.

Base Clock: 1.506 GHz
Boost Clock: 1.809 GHz+6 %
Avg (Game) Clock: 1.784 GHz
Overclocking: Yes

Thermal Design

The MSI GeForce GTX 1060 GAMING X+ 6G has 1 x 8-Pin plugs, which supply the graphics card with energy. The maximum operating temperature of the card is 94 °C.

TDP: 120 W
Tjunction max: 94 °C
PCIe-Power: 1 x 8-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The MSI GeForce GTX 1060 GAMING X+ 6G is equipped with 2 Axial main fans, which are used to cool the graphics processor and graphics memory.

Fan-Type: Axial
Fan 1: 2 x 100 mm
Cooler-Type: Air cooling
Noise (Idle): 0 dB / Silent

Connectivity

Up to 4 screens can be connected to the MSI GeForce GTX 1060 GAMING X+ 6G, whereby the backward-compatible HDCP copy protection is supported in the 2.2 version.

Max. Displays: 4
HDCP: 2.2
HDMI: 1x HDMI 2.0b
DisplayPort: 3x DP 1.4
DVI: 1

Featureset

The MSI GeForce GTX 1060 GAMING X+ 6G supports a maximum resolution of 7680x4320 pixels and the DirectX standard version 12_1.

Max. resolution: 7680x4320
DirectX: 12_1
Raytracing: No
DLSS / FSR: Yes
LED: MSI Mystic Light

Supported Video Codecs

Here is a list of which video codecs can be decoded / encoded by the MSI GeForce GTX 1060 GAMING X+ 6G in hardware in order to minimize the processor load.

h264: Decode / Encode
h265 / HEVC: Decode / Encode
VP8: No
VP9: Decode
AV1: No

Dimensions

The dimensions of the MSI GeForce GTX 1060 GAMING X+ 6G are 277 mm in length, 140 mm in height and 39 mm in width. Thus 2 PCIe-Slots are needed in a case.

Length: 277 mm
Height: 140 mm
Width: 39 mm
Width (Slots): 2 PCIe-Slots
Weight: 1017 g
SFF-Ready: No

Additional data

The MSI GeForce GTX 1060 GAMING X+ 6G is manufactured in a structure width of 16 nm and has a PCIe 3.0 x 16 lanes interface. The graphics card was released in Q3/2016.

GPU Interface: PCIe 3.0 x 16
Release date: Q3/2016
Launch Price: 249 $ (Reference)
Structure size: 16 nm
Documents: data sheet

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Benchmark results

3DMark Benchmark (DirectX, Raytracing)

3DMark is a benchmark program that determines the performance of certain components of a computer and then reports the performance as a numerical value.

Time Spy Extreme Graphics score Rank 4,627 / 5,633

MSI GeForce GTX 1060 GAMING X+ 6G6 GB GDDR5
1,892
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GBAverage of gpu group
1,884

Port Royal (Raytracing) Rank 4,044 / 4,176

MSI GeForce GTX 1060 GAMING X+ 6G6 GB GDDR5
838
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GBAverage of gpu group
835

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Battlefield 5

Battlefield 5 is a visually stunning game that is ideal as a graphics card benchmark. We test the game with maximum details on Windows 10.

3840x2160 (2160p) Rank 3,647 / 4,595

MSI GeForce GTX 1060 GAMING X+ 6G6 GB GDDR5
32 fps (avg)
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GBAverage of gpu group
27 fps (avg)

2560x1440 (1440p) Rank 3,749 / 4,594

MSI GeForce GTX 1060 GAMING X+ 6G6 GB GDDR5
57 fps (avg)
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GBAverage of gpu group
50 fps (avg)

1920x1080 (1080p) Rank 3,844 / 4,601

MSI GeForce GTX 1060 GAMING X+ 6G6 GB GDDR5
77 fps (avg)
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GBAverage of gpu group
74 fps (avg)

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Geekbench 6 (OpenCL, Vulkan, Metal)

Geekbench 6 is a cross-platform benchmark for main processors, which also carries out 3 different graphics benchmarks and outputs them in the form of a numerical value.

Geekbench 6 - OpenCL Rank 4,518 / 5,255

MSI GeForce GTX 1060 GAMING X+ 6G6 GB GDDR5
35,600
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GBAverage of gpu group
35,748

Geekbench 6 - Vulkan Rank 4,535 / 5,233

MSI GeForce GTX 1060 GAMING X+ 6G6 GB GDDR5
36,319
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GBAverage of gpu group
36,932

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FP32 Performance (Single-precision TFLOPS)

The theoretical computing power of the graphics card with single precision (32 bit) in TFLOPS indicates how many trillion FP32 floating point operations the graphics card (GPU) can perform per second.