NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB Benchmark

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB

The GeForce GTX 1060 3GB is a GPU from NVIDIA released in 2016. This chip has a good gaming score at 35% in our GPU benchmark.

It has a total memory bandwidth of 187 GB/s. The memory bus has a width of 192 bits.

In terms of clock speed, the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB GPU core runs at a frequency of 1506 MHz and if power and temperature permits, it can boost up to 1708 MHz. The core clock is directly related to the performance of a GPU, the higher the clock, the more processing can be done per second. A higher clock does not guarantee better performance by itself, this also depends on the number of shading units and other elements of the pipeline.

The performance specs of the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB are a raw floating-point performance of 3.94 TFLOPS : this represents the number of floating point (decimal) operations completed per second. In addition, this NVIDIA GPU has a pixel rate of 82 Gigapixels/s, the number of pixels the GPU is capable of outputting every second. Furthermore, it has a texture fill rate of 123 Gigatexels/s, the number of pixels the GPU can renderer per second.

As for rendering API support, the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB supports up to DirectX 12. In addition, in cross-platform titles, OpenGL 4.6 features are supported. Newer APIs are usually more efficient, allowing for better performance in games and better graphical effects.

The raw technical specs of the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB are: 1152 total shading units (general purpose parallel cores capable of processing different aspects of the graphics pipeline), 72 texture mapping units (specialised processors for texture operations, this determines the texture rate) and 48 render output processors or units (the final step in the rendering pipeline, responsible for rasterising the image)

Power and thermals for the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB are a TDP (Thermal Design Power) of 120 watts. This measures the amount of heat the GPU produces when running at 100%. This isn't a measure of power consumption, but it's a good estimate.

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