GeForce GTX 1060
[ GEFORCE ] Graphics Cards

GeForce GTX 1060

Overall Score
17/100
GRADE D · Poor
Key Technical Specifications
Graphics (GPU) Pascal
[ EXPERT VERDICT · SUMMARY ]

GeForce GTX 1060 is an engineering-tested graphics cards achieving an overall rating of 17/100. It is positioned for balanced everyday compute and power efficiency.

Benchmark Performance Scores

Normalized 0–100 Scale
Efficiency
37/100
Rating: Poor
Gaming
14/100
Rating: Poor

Detailed Technical Specifications

3D Mark

3D Mark specifications for GeForce GTX 1060
Specification Value
Fire Strike 13132
Night Raid 54686
Port Royal 844
Solar Bay 11278
Time Spy 4203
Wild Life Extreme 8510

API

API specifications for GeForce GTX 1060
Specification Value
CUDA 6.1
DLSS No
DirectX 12
DisplayPort 1.4a
OpenCL 3.0
OpenGL 4.6
Ray Tracing No
Vulkan 1.3

Games

Games specifications for GeForce GTX 1060
Specification Value
1080p High 50
1080p Ultra 37
1440p Ultra 27
4K Ultra 13
CoD: Modern Warfare III 38322213
Counter-Strike 2 96634218
Cyberpunk 2077 302619-
Far Cry 6 50453315
Forza Horizon 5 68372916
Ghost of Tsushima 2920169
Hogwarts Legacy 3222189
Margin of Error Low
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 57493418
The Witcher 3 54402613

GeekBench 6 ML

GeekBench 6 ML specifications for GeForce GTX 1060
Specification Value
Backend DirectML
Depth Estimation (Q) 10515
Face Detection (HP) 6356
Framework ONNX
Image Classification (SP) 1462
Image Segmentation (HP) 3872
Image Super Resolution (Q) 8136
Machine Translation (HP) 3149
Object Detection (SP) 2096
Pose Estimation (Q) 33181
Style Transfer (SP) 67831
Text Classification (SP) 1806

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GeekBench 6 OpenCL specifications for GeForce GTX 1060
Specification Value
API OpenCL
Background Blur 100.2 img/sec
Edge Detection 2.25 Gpixels/sec
Face Detection 48.1 img/sec
Feature Matching 0.25 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 2.58 Gpixels/sec
Horizon Detection 1.54 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 4220.5 FPS
Stereo Matching 136.9 Gpixels/sec

General

General specifications for GeForce GTX 1060
Specification Value
Architecture Pascal
Build Discrete
Case Desktop
GPU Codename GP106
Launch price (MSRP) $299
Purpose Gaming
Recommended CPU -Intel Core i7 7700or above
Released July 19, 2016
Segment Mid-range
Successor -GeForce RTX 5060
Vendor Nvidia

Graphics Processing Unit

Graphics Processing Unit specifications for GeForce GTX 1060
Specification Value
Base Clock 1506 MHz
Boost Clock 1709 MHz
Compute Units (Pipelines) 10
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC
L1 Cache 48KB per cluster
L2 Cache 1536KB shared
Ray-tracing Cores No
Render Output Units (ROPs) 48
Shading Units 1280
Tensor Cores No
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 80

Memory

Memory specifications for GeForce GTX 1060
Specification Value
Bus 192-bit
ECC No
Effective Memory Speed 8000 Mbps
Memory Clock 2002 MHz
Memory Size 6 GB
Memory Type GDDR5

Passmark Graphics

Passmark Graphics specifications for GeForce GTX 1060
Specification Value
DirectX 11 72 FPS
DirectX 12 37 FPS
G2D Mark 737
GPU Compute 4246 Ops/s

Physical

Physical specifications for GeForce GTX 1060
Specification Value
Die Size 200 mm²
Fabrication Process 16 nm
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16
Manufacturing TSMC
TGP 120 W
Transistor Count 4 billion
Transistor Density 20 MTr/mm²

Raw Performance

Raw Performance specifications for GeForce GTX 1060
Specification Value
Pixel Fill Rate 82 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 137 GTexel/s

Strengths & Limitations

Key Advantages

  • Comprehensive positive benchmark metrics recorded.

Key Considerations

  • No major hardware limitations flagged during benchmark run.

Direct Competitors & Alternatives

Methodology, Provenance & Verification

Score version 2026.1 · Data verified 2026-08-26 · Source: official manufacturer datasheets and standardized reproducible benchmark suites (Geekbench 6, Cinebench R24, 3DMark).

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