NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 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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$ 335.00

$ 289.00

$ 46.00 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2077 points

0.44% slightly better overall score

2068 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

44 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

42 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

34 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

33 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

28 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

27 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

27 FPS

29 FPS

3 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

370.89 points

30% slightly higher Blender score

284.61 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

31129 points

31922 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

13531 points

0.03% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

13527 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

32388 points

33958 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

31476 points

33939 points

7% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

13531 points

0.03% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

13527 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

32365 points

33375 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

30916 points

32433 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1708 MHz

13% slightly higher core clock speed

1506 MHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

120 W

Identical

120 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

208th of 597

209th of 597

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

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

4.5

4.6

GeForce GTX 1060 vs GeForce GTX 1060 3GB comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 1060 GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB in gaming.

Our database shows that the GeForce GTX 1060 has a slightly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation.

In addition, both the GeForce GTX 1060 and the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB have an identical TDP. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

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