GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB Overview
Summary
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| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
Compared to similar performing cards
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| GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB | GeForce GTX 1650 | Radeon RX 580 | Radeon RX 570 | GeForce GTX 1060 |
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| | compare | compare | compare | compare |
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| 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 |
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
Radeon RX 580
59
Radeon RX 570
52
GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
52
GeForce GTX 1060
52
GeForce GTX 1650
44
FPS (higher is better)