The GTX 1060 uses a fully enabled GP106 core, and it is available with either 3GB or 6GB of GDDR5. Due to the increasing demand for vRAM in modern games, models of the GTX 1060 with 3GB of RAM are noticeably slower in some titles. The GTX 1060 was introduced at a $250 price point and does battle with AMD's Radeon RX 480 and RX 580 graphics cards.
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Nvidia GeForce 10-series "Pascal" GPUs
GPU | Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 Ti | Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 | Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070 | Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 | Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 Ti | Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 | Nvidia GeForce GT 1030 |
Core | GP102 | GP104 | GP104 | GP106 | GP107 | GP107 | GP108 |
SMs | 28 | 20 | 15 | 10 | 6 | 5 | 3 |
Shader Units | 3584 | 2560 | 1920 | 1280 (6GB) / 1152 (3GB) | 768 | 640 | 384 |
Texture Units | 224 | 160 | 120 | 80 | 48 | 40 | 24 |
ROPs | 88 | 64 | 64 | 48 | 32 | 32 | 16 |
Transistor Count | 12 Billion | 7.2 Billion | 7.2 Billion | 4.4 Billion | 3.3 Billion | 3.3 Billion | 1.02 Billion |
Base Clock / Boost Clock | 1480MHz / 1582MHz | 1607MHz / 1733MHz | 1506MHz / 1683MHz | 1506MHz / 1708MHz | 1290MHz / 1392MHz | 1354MHz / 1455MHz | 1227MHz / 1468MHz |
Memory | Up To 11GB GDDR5X @ 11Gbps, 352-Bit | Up To 8GB GDDR5X @ 10Gbps, 256-Bit | Up To 8GB GDDR5 @ 8Gbps, 256-Bit | Up To 6GB GDDR5 @ 8Gbps, 192-Bit | Up To 4GB GDDR5 @ 7Gbps, 128-Bit | Up To 2GB GDDR5 @ 7Gbps, 128-Bit | Up To 2GB GDDR5 @ 6Gbps, 64-Bit |
TDP | 250W | 180W | 150W | 120W | 75W | 75W | 30W |
Process Node | 16nm | 16nm | 16nm | 16nm | 14nm | 14nm | 14nm |
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Here we've listed all of the GTX 1060 6GB graphics cards currently available, separated by brand:
Asus (6GB)
EVGA (6GB)
Gigabyte (6GB)
MSI (6GB)
PNY (6GB)
Here we've listed all of the GTX 1060 3GB graphics cards currently available, separated by brand: