NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB

Price

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$ 399.00

$ 289.00

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2457 points

19% slightly better overall score

2058 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

47 FPS

5 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

42 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

40 FPS

7 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

33 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

31 FPS

5 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

27 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

33 FPS

3 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

29 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

377.89 points

32% slightly higher Blender score

284.61 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

34034 points

6% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

31922 points

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

14587 points

7% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

13527 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

36416 points

7% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

33958 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

37241 points

9% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

33939 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

14587 points

7% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

13527 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

36494 points

9% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

33375 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

35697 points

10% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

32433 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1506 MHz

Identical

1506 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1709 MHz

0.06% slightly higher boost clock speed

1708 MHz

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit

Identical

192 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

192.2 GB/s

Identical

192.2 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

120 W

Identical

120 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

82.03 Gigapixels/s

0.06% slightly higher pixel rate

81.98 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

136.7 Gigatexels/s

11% slightly higher texture rate

123 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

4.04 TFLOPS

2% slightly better floating point performance

3.94 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1280

11% slightly more shading units

1152

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

11% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

180th of 586

206th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 July

2016 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce GTX 1060 6GB vs GeForce GTX 1060 3GB specs and performance

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 1060 6GB graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB in our tests.

Our database shows that both the GeForce GTX 1060 6GB and GeForce GTX 1060 3GB both have the same core clock speed. Despite this, the GeForce GTX 1060 6GB has a slightly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

In addition, both the GeForce GTX 1060 6GB and the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB have an identical TDP. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce GTX 1060 6GB is faster than the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB.