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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps is a Desktop video accelerator from NVIDIA. It began to be released in April 2017. The GPU has a boost frequency of 1709MHz. It also has a memory frequency of 2257MHz. Its characteristics, as well as benchmark results, are presented in more detail below.

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Basic

Label Name
NVIDIA
Platform
Desktop
Launch Date
April 2017
Model Name
GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps
Generation
GeForce 10
Base Clock
1506MHz
Boost Clock
1709MHz
Shading Units
?
The most fundamental processing unit is the Streaming Processor (SP), where specific instructions and tasks are executed. GPUs perform parallel computing, which means multiple SPs work simultaneously to process tasks.
1280
SM Count
?
Multiple Streaming Processors (SPs), along with other resources, form a Streaming Multiprocessor (SM), which is also referred to as a GPU's major core. These additional resources include components such as warp schedulers, registers, and shared memory. The SM can be considered the heart of the GPU, similar to a CPU core, with registers and shared memory being scarce resources within the SM.
10
Transistors
4,400 million
TMUs
?
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) serve as components of the GPU, which are capable of rotating, scaling, and distorting binary images, and then placing them as textures onto any plane of a given 3D model. This process is called texture mapping.
80
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
1536KB
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Foundry
TSMC
Process Size
16 nm
Architecture
Pascal
TDP
120W

Memory Specifications

Memory Size
6GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
Memory Bus
?
The memory bus width refers to the number of bits of data that the video memory can transfer within a single clock cycle. The larger the bus width, the greater the amount of data that can be transmitted instantaneously, making it one of the crucial parameters of video memory. The memory bandwidth is calculated as: Memory Bandwidth = Memory Frequency x Memory Bus Width / 8. Therefore, when the memory frequencies are similar, the memory bus width will determine the size of the memory bandwidth.
192bit
Memory Clock
2257MHz
Bandwidth
?
Memory bandwidth refers to the data transfer rate between the graphics chip and the video memory. It is measured in bytes per second, and the formula to calculate it is: memory bandwidth = working frequency × memory bus width / 8 bits.
216.7 GB/s

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate
?
Pixel fill rate refers to the number of pixels a graphics processing unit (GPU) can render per second, measured in MPixels/s (million pixels per second) or GPixels/s (billion pixels per second). It is the most commonly used metric to evaluate the pixel processing performance of a graphics card.
82.03 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
?
Texture fill rate refers to the number of texture map elements (texels) that a GPU can map to pixels in a single second.
136.7 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
?
An important metric for measuring GPU performance is floating-point computing capability. Half-precision floating-point numbers (16-bit) are used for applications like machine learning, where lower precision is acceptable. Single-precision floating-point numbers (32-bit) are used for common multimedia and graphics processing tasks, while double-precision floating-point numbers (64-bit) are required for scientific computing that demands a wide numeric range and high accuracy.
68.36 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
?
An important metric for measuring GPU performance is floating-point computing capability. Double-precision floating-point numbers (64-bit) are required for scientific computing that demands a wide numeric range and high accuracy, while single-precision floating-point numbers (32-bit) are used for common multimedia and graphics processing tasks. Half-precision floating-point numbers (16-bit) are used for applications like machine learning, where lower precision is acceptable.
136.7 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
?
An important metric for measuring GPU performance is floating-point computing capability. Single-precision floating-point numbers (32-bit) are used for common multimedia and graphics processing tasks, while double-precision floating-point numbers (64-bit) are required for scientific computing that demands a wide numeric range and high accuracy. Half-precision floating-point numbers (16-bit) are used for applications like machine learning, where lower precision is acceptable.
4.373 TFlops

Miscellaneous

Vulkan Version
?
Vulkan is a cross-platform graphics and compute API by Khronos Group, offering high performance and low CPU overhead. It lets developers control the GPU directly, reduces rendering overhead, and supports multi-threading and multi-core processors.
1.3
OpenCL Version
3.0
OpenGL
4.6
DirectX
12 (12_1)
CUDA
6.1
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
ROPs
?
The Raster Operations Pipeline (ROPs) is primarily responsible for handling lighting and reflection calculations in games, as well as managing effects like anti-aliasing (AA), high resolution, smoke, and fire. The more demanding the anti-aliasing and lighting effects in a game, the higher the performance requirements for the ROPs; otherwise, it may result in a sharp drop in frame rate.
48
Shader Model
6.4
Suggested PSU
300W

FP32 (float)

4.373 TFlops

Compared to Other GPU

0%
9%
49%
Better then 0% GPU over the past year
Better then 9% GPU over the past 3 years
Better then 49% GPU

SiliconCat Rating

244
Ranks 244 among Desktop GPU on our website
524
Ranks 524 among all GPU on our website
FP32 (float)
Radeon RX 5300
AMD, May 2020
4.725 TFlops
GeForce RTX 2060 Mobile
NVIDIA, January 2019
4.515 TFlops
4.373 TFlops
Radeon Pro 5500M
AMD, November 2019
4.278 TFlops
Radeon HD 8990 OEM
AMD, April 2013
4.177 TFlops