NVIDIA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB Speed index 4/100 Last updated: 2024-02-23

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB GDDR5 Benchmark and Specs

Name: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB GDDR5
Brand: NVIDIA
Rating: 4.1 (12 reviews)

Here you will find all technical data as well as various benchmarks of the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB GDDR5. 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 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB GDDR5 is 1.708 GHz, so the graphics card achieves an FP32 computing power of 4.38 TFLOPS.

FP32: 4.38TFLOPS
Boost Clock: 1.71GHz
Memory: 6GB GDDR5
TDP: 120 W

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Technical details

GPU

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB GDDR5 is equipped with 10 execution and 1280 shader units. With single precision, a theoretical FP32 computing power of 4.38 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 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB GDDR5 has a 192 bit wide memory interface, with which a memory bandwidth of 192 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: 2.002 GHz
Memory Speed: 8.0 Gbps
Memory bandwidth: 192 GB/s
Memory Interface: 192 bit

Clock Speeds

The manufacturer specifies the memory clock of the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB GDDR5 with 1.506 GHz (base clock) or with 1.708 GHz (turbo clock). If overclocking is supported (see below), the clock rate can be increased even further.

Base Clock: 1.506 GHz
Boost Clock: 1.708 GHz
Overclocking: Yes

Thermal Design

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB GDDR5 has 1 x 6-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 6-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB GDDR5 is equipped with 1 Radial main fans, which are used to cool the graphics processor and graphics memory.

Fan-Type: Radial
Fan 1: 1 x 65 mm
Cooler-Type: Air cooling

Connectivity

Up to 4 screens can be connected to the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB GDDR5, 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 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB GDDR5 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: No LED lighting

Supported Video Codecs

Here is a list of which video codecs can be decoded / encoded by the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB GDDR5 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 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB GDDR5 are 250 mm in length, 111 mm in height and -- in width. Thus 2 PCIe-Slots are needed in a case.

Length: 250 mm
Height: 111 mm
Width (Slots): 2 PCIe-Slots
SFF-Ready: No

Additional data

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB GDDR5 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 4,731 / 5,633

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB GDDR56 GB GDDR5
1,837
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GBAverage of gpu group
1,884

Port Royal (Raytracing) Rank 4,106 / 4,176

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB GDDR56 GB GDDR5
814
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 3,806 / 4,595

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB GDDR56 GB GDDR5
30 fps (avg)
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GBAverage of gpu group
27 fps (avg)

2560x1440 (1440p) Rank 3,915 / 4,594

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB GDDR56 GB GDDR5
54 fps (avg)
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GBAverage of gpu group
50 fps (avg)

1920x1080 (1080p) Rank 4,010 / 4,601

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB GDDR56 GB GDDR5
73 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 4,604 / 5,255

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB GDDR56 GB GDDR5
33,605
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GBAverage of gpu group
35,748

Geekbench 6 - Vulkan Rank 4,676 / 5,233

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB GDDR56 GB GDDR5
34,284
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.