GeForce GTX 1060 Overview
Summary
Performance summary, based on benchmarks charts.
The GeForce GTX 1060 is a graphics card released by Nvidia on 10 Jul 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 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| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |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 | Radeon RX 6500 XT | GeForce GTX 1650 | Radeon RX 580 | Radeon RX 570 |
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| | compare | compare | compare | compare |
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| Shader units | 1280 | 1024 | 896 | 2304 | 2048 |
| ROPs | 48 | 32 | 32 | 32 | 32 |
| Graphics processor | GP106 | Navi 24 | TU107 | Ellesmere | Ellesmere |
| Process size | 16 nm | 6 nm | 12 nm | 14 nm | 14 nm |
| Memory | 6144 Mb GDDR5 (2002 MHz
8008 MHz effective) | 4096 Mb GDDR6 (2250 MHz
18 Gbps 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) |
| Memory bus width | 192 bit | 64 bit | 128 bit | 256 bit | 256 bit |
| Memory bandwidth | 192.20 Gb/s | 144.00 Gb/s | 128.00 Gb/s | 256.00 Gb/s | 211.20 Gb/s |
| Release date | 10 Jul 2016 | 19 Jan 2022 | 30 Apr 2019 | 1 Apr 2017 | 1 Apr 2017 |
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
Radeon RX 6500 XT
64
Radeon RX 580
59
Radeon RX 570
52
GeForce GTX 1060
52
GeForce GTX 1650
42
FPS (higher is better)
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
Radeon RX 6500 XT
40
Radeon RX 580
38
Radeon RX 570
34
GeForce GTX 1060
34
GeForce GTX 1650
27
FPS (higher is better)
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
Radeon RX 580
19
Radeon RX 570
17
GeForce GTX 1060
17
FPS (higher is better)
Far Cry 6
Radeon RX 580
52
Radeon RX 570
47
GeForce GTX 1060
42
FPS (higher is better)
Far Cry 6
Radeon RX 580
36
Radeon RX 570
32
GeForce GTX 1060
31
Radeon RX 6500 XT
13
FPS (higher is better)
Far Cry 6
GeForce GTX 1060
19
Radeon RX 580
17
Radeon RX 570
15
FPS (higher is better)