GeForce GTX 1060

GeForce GTX 1060
  • Graphics Processor: GP106
  • Cores: 1280
  • TMUs / ROPs: 80 / 48

Review

Gaming
14
Workstation
22
AI/ML
12
Energy Efficiency
37
NanoReview Final Score
17
Compare GeForce GTX 1060 with other GPUs

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
68
37
29
16
The Witcher 3
54
40
26
13
Counter-Strike 2
96
63
42
18
Far Cry 6
50
45
33
15
Hogwarts Legacy
32
22
18
9
CoD: Modern Warfare III
38
32
22
13
Ghost of Tsushima
29
20
16
9
Cyberpunk 2077
30
26
19
-
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
57
49
34
18
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 50
1080p Ultra 37
1440p Ultra 27
4K Ultra 13
Margin of Error Low

Test in Benchmarks

Performance tests in graphics benchmarks and applications

3D Mark

Multiplatform graphics benchmark suite that directly correlates with performance in modern games
Steel Nomad Lite Score
4085
Time Spy 4203
Solar Bay 11278
Port Royal 844
Fire Strike 13132
Wild Life Extreme 8510
Night Raid 54686
Sources: 3DMark [1]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
39230
Background Blur 100.2 img/sec
Face Detection 48.1 img/sec
Horizon Detection 1.54 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 2.25 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 2.58 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.25 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 136.9 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 4220.5 FPS
API OpenCL
Sources: Geekbench [3]

Cinebench 2024 GPU

Hardware benchmark using Maxon's Cinema 4D rendering engine
Cinebench 2024 GPU
2586

Passmark Graphics

Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features
G3D Mark Score
10026
G2D Mark 737
DirectX 11 72 FPS
DirectX 12 37 FPS
GPU Compute 4246 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5] – 48280 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
375.66
Sources: Blender [9] – 943 samples

Artificial Intelligence Tests

Performance in machine learning and artificial intelligence tasks

GeekBench 6 ML

Tests throughput of AI operations in single, half, and quantized precision
GB6 ML Single Precision
6580
GB6 ML Half Precision
6649
GB6 ML Quantized
4804
Image Classification (SP) 1462
Image Segmentation (HP) 3872
Image Super Resolution (Q) 8136
Face Detection (HP) 6356
Pose Estimation (Q) 33181
Text Classification (SP) 1806
Machine Translation (HP) 3149
Object Detection (SP) 2096
Depth Estimation (Q) 10515
Style Transfer (SP) 67831
Framework ONNX
Backend DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9]

Specifications

Detailed technical specifications of the GeForce GTX 1060

General

Vendor Nvidia
Build Discrete
Released July 19, 2016
Launch price (MSRP) $299
Case Desktop
Purpose Gaming
Segment Mid-range
Architecture Pascal
GPU Codename GP106
Successor - GeForce RTX 5060
Recommended CPU - Intel Core i7 7700 or above
Desktop GPU rating - 84th place

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 1506 MHz
Boost Clock 1709 MHz
Shading Units 1280
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 80
Render Output Units (ROPs) 48
Compute Units (Pipelines) 10
Tensor Cores No
Ray-tracing Cores No
L1 Cache 48KB per cluster
L2 Cache 1536KB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 82 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 137 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
4.4 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 3.0 x16
TGP 120 W
Manufacturing TSMC
Fabrication Process 16 nm
Die Size 200 mm²
Transistor Count 4 billion
Transistor Density 20 MTr/mm²

Memory

Memory Type GDDR5
Memory Size 6 GB
Memory Clock 2002 MHz
Effective Memory Speed 8000 Mbps
Bus 192-bit
ECC No
Memory Bandwidth
192.2 GB/s

API

DirectX 12
Vulkan 1.3
OpenGL 4.6
OpenCL 3.0
CUDA 6.1
Ray Tracing No
DLSS No
DisplayPort 1.4a
Notes
    - There is also 3GB memory version, which is about 10% slower.

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