NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5GB Benchmark and Specs

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5GB GPU benchmark, specs and release date - NVIDIA Graphics card rating. How good is the GeForce GTX 1060 5GB for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

2,438

Average score from 4 samples
Medium uncertainty

Performance

Average

Ranking

181st of 586

Popularity

282nd of 586

Samples

4 benchmarks

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GPU Comparison

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5GB compared against popular alternatives. Compare against more GPUs with our GPU Comparison Tool.

AMD Radeon RX 590	2,466 points
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB	2,457 points
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5GB	2,438 points
AMD Radeon RX 580	2,281 points
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650	2,244 points
NVIDIA Quadro P2200	2,123 points
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti	1,456 points

GPU benchmarks

Here are the performance results of this graphics card in both the hardwareDB Benchmark and other benchmark utilities. Synthetic tests are an estimation of real-world performance using consistent and repeatable benchmarks. All tests were performed at 1920 x 1080 resolution.

Flux Core

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

101 FPS average

72 FPS 10% low

62 FPS 1% low

Electron

Randomly generated noise sphere test

81 FPS average

79 FPS 10% low

75 FPS 1% low

City

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

64 FPS average

48 FPS 10% low

43 FPS 1% low

Clouds

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

67 FPS average

64 FPS 10% low

57 FPS 1% low

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Alternative benchmarks

Here are some benchmark results using alternative testing software

Blender

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

325

Geekbench 5 (CUDA)

CUDA compute benchmark

30,206

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL)

OpenCL compute benchmark

33,671

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan)

Vulkan compute benchmark

36,656

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL)

OpenCL compute benchmark

35,111

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan)

Vulkan compute benchmark

33,988

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Specifications

Core Clock	1506 MHz
Boost Clock	1709 MHz
Memory Type	GDDR5
Bus Width	160 bit
Memory Bandwidth	160.2 GB/s
TDP	120 W
Floating Point Performance	4.38 TFLOP/s
Release Date	2017-12-26
PCIe Revision	3.0
DirectX Support	12
OpenGL Support	4.6
Pixel Rate	68.36 Gigapixels/s
Texture Rate	136.7 Gigatexels/s
Shading Units	1280
Texture Mapping Units	80
Render Output Processors	40

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5GB

The GeForce GTX 1060 5GB is an NVIDIA GPU that was released in 2017 December. This GPU is average at gaming with a score of 2438 points in our PC benchmark.

It has a total memory bandwidth of 156 GB/s. The memory bus has a width of 160 bits.

In terms of clock speed, the GeForce GTX 1060 5GB GPU core runs at a frequency of 1506 MHz and if power and temperature permits, it can boost up to 1709 MHz. The clock runs at a speed called the clock speed. It dictates the number of updates per second that the GPU can process. Overclocking a chip, which means increasing the clock speed will improve the performance. However, thermals and power efficiency may be diminished.

As for rendering API support, the GeForce GTX 1060 5GB supports up to DirectX 12. In addition, in cross-platform titles, OpenGL 4.6 features are supported. If your GPU is too old and doesn't support a newer API certain titles may not be playable.

Power and thermals for the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5GB 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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