GTX 1060 3GB benchmark with i7-6700K 1080p, 1440p, Ultrawide, 4K benchmarks at Ultra Quality

At 1440p, GTX 1060 3GB can hit 50-60 fps on pretty much everything at ultra, just without antialiasing, less ambient occlusion and turned down shadows. It is clear that the GTX 1060 3GB is a significantly more capable high-end card that can play AAA titles at 1080p/1440p with 50-60 frames per second. The price/performance ratio is excellent for GTX 1060 3GB against the competition in budget mid-range cards. With regards to max load temperature, the GTX 1060 3GB 's cooling is excellent at keeping it cool and under control. With current 3072 MB RAM, the GTX 1060 3GB can have very few memory-related bottlenecks in more modern games.

	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB
Price	$ 170.0
Year	2016
Maximum Recorded Temperature	63C
Max Fan Noise	42.2dB
Recommended Power Supply	470W
Benchmark CPU	Intel Core i7-6700K @ 4.00GHz ($334.99)
CPU Impact on FPS	+ 0.0 FPS
CPU Impact on FPS %	0.0%
Benchmark Quality Settings	Ultra Quality Settings
Average 1080p Performance	63.7 FPS
Average 1440p Performance	46.0 FPS
(Ultrawide) Average 1440p Performance	39.3 FPS
Average 4K Performance	27.4 FPS
Memory	3 GB
1080p Cost Per Frame	$ 2.7
1440p Cost Per Frame	$ 3.7
(Ultrawide) 1440p Cost Per Frame	$ 4.3
4K Cost Per Frame	$ 6.2
Series	GTX 1060 3GB
Variant	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB
Overall Combination Score	81/100	Excellent

GTX 1060 3GB Specifications

GTX 1060 3GB Board Design

Length	9.823 inches 250 mm
Outputs	1x DVI 1x HDMI 3x DisplayPort
Power Connectors	1x 8-pin
Slot Width	Dual-slot
TDP	120 W

GTX 1060 3GB Clock Speeds

Boost Clock	1708 MHz
GPU Clock	1506 MHz
Memory Clock	2002 MHz 8008 MHz effective

GTX 1060 3GB Graphics Card

Bus Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16
Generation	GeForce 1000
Production	Active
Release Date	Aug 18th, 2016

GTX 1060 3GB Graphics Features

CUDA	6.1
DirectX	12.0 (12_1)
OpenCL	1.2
OpenGL	4.6
Shader Model	6.2
Vulkan	1.1.96

GTX 1060 3GB Graphics Processor

Architecture	Pascal
Die Size	200 mm²
GPU Name	GP106
Process Size	16 nm
Transistors	4,400 million

GTX 1060 3GB Memory

Bandwidth	192.2 GB/s
Memory Bus	192 bit
Memory Size	3072
Memory Type	GDDR5

GTX 1060 3GB Render Config

ROPs	48
SM Count	9
Shading Units	1152
TMUs	72

GTX 1060 3GB Theoretical Performance

FP16 (half) performance	61.49 GFLOPS (1:64)
FP32 (float) performance	3,935 GFLOPS
FP64 (double) performance	123.0 GFLOPS (1:32)
Pixel Rate	81.98 GPixel/s
Texture Rate	123.0 GTexel/s