Graphics card overview

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

Nvidia

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

3072 Mb GDDR5 Released 18 Aug 2016 DESKTOP

Core configuration

GPU	GP106
Architecture	Nvidia_Pascal
Shaders : TMUs : ROPs	1152 : 72 : 48
Raytracing Cores	none
Performance	3470.00 GFLOPs

Memory configuration

Memory Size	3072 Mb
Memory Bus Width	192 bit
Memory Speed	2002 MHz 8008 MHz effective
Memory Bandwidth	192.20 Gb/s

Summary

Relative performance

Performance summary, based on benchmarks charts.

The GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB is a graphics card released by Nvidia on 18 Aug 2016. The graphics card houses the GP106 die, based on the Nvidia_Pascal architecture which packs 4,400 million transistors on a 16 nm, 200 mm² die.

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB pros and cons

Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Specifications

Compared to similar performing cards

	GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB	GeForce GTX 1650 Compare	Radeon RX 580 Compare	Radeon RX 570 Compare	GeForce GTX 1060 Compare
Shader units	1152	896	2304	2048	1280
ROPs	48	32	32	32	48
Graphics processor	GP106	TU107	Ellesmere	Ellesmere	GP106
Process size	16 nm	12 nm	14 nm	14 nm	16 nm
Memory	3072 Mb GDDR5 (2002 MHz 8008 MHz effective)	4096 Mb GDDR5 (2000 MHz 8000 MHz effective)	8192 Mb GDDR5 (2000 MHz 8000 MHz effective)	4096 Mb GDDR5 (1650 MHz 6600 MHz effective)	6144 Mb GDDR5 (2002 MHz 8008 MHz effective)
Memory bus width	192 bit	128 bit	256 bit	256 bit	192 bit
Memory bandwidth	192.20 Gb/s	128.00 Gb/s	256.00 Gb/s	211.20 Gb/s	192.20 Gb/s
Release date	18 Aug 2016	30 Apr 2019	1 Apr 2017	1 Apr 2017	10 Jul 2016