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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB is a graphics card released on August 18, 2016, built on the Pascal architecture. It has 1,152 shading units, 3 GB of GDDR5 memory on a 192-bit bus, 192.2 GB/s of memory bandwidth, a boost clock of 1.71 GHz and a 120 W board power rating. It scores 9,846 in the PassMark G3D benchmark. It supports DirectX 12, OpenGL 4.6, Vulkan 1.4 and CUDA compute capability 6.1.

PascalGP106-300-A1

10/10 key specs recorded · 32 facts

Depth: 41 recorded fields, 1 feature, 5 PassMark workloads

Specification data last verified November 14, 2026 against PassMark Videocard Benchmark and Wikipedia GPU list tables (wikigrid-2026-09). Coverage: 10 of 10 tracked specifications recorded.

PassMark Videocard Benchmark PassMark Videocard Benchmark Wikipedia GPU list tables (wikigrid-2026-09)

Shading units

1,152cores

9 SMs

Memory

3 GB

GDDR5 · 192-bit

Boost clock

1.71 GHz

1.51 GHz base

Board power

120 W

Performance

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB scores 9,846 in the PassMark G3D benchmark, higher than 89% of the 2,658 GPUs benchmarked (PassMark rank #300), measured across 23,365 submitted results. Its PassMark G2D score is 776.

PassMark G3D Mark

9,846

Rank #300
Faster than 89% of 2,658 GPUs
23,365 samples

0relative to the fastest GPU on record (41,928)

PassMark workload tests

DirectX 9 164 fps

reference: fastest recorded 526 fps · faster than 85.4% of 1,675 GPUs

DirectX 10 55 fps

reference: fastest recorded 231 fps · faster than 78% of 1,602 GPUs

DirectX 11 70 fps

reference: fastest recorded 362 fps · faster than 77.7% of 1,430 GPUs

DirectX 12 35 fps

reference: fastest recorded 213 fps · faster than 71% of 1,274 GPUs

GPU Compute 4,148 ops/s

reference: fastest recorded 26,591 ops/s · faster than 80% of 1,447 GPUs

Averages of PassMark PerformanceTest submissions; frames/sec are PassMark test-scene rates, not game FPS. Tests PassMark does not report for this card are omitted. PassMark listing

In the PassMark workload tests the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB averages DirectX 9 164 fps, DirectX 10 55 fps, DirectX 11 70 fps, DirectX 12 35 fps and GPU Compute 4,148 ops/s, across 23,365 submitted results. Frames per second are PassMark test-scene rates, not game frame rates.

As stated by PassMark

Category Desktop

Bus interface PCIe 3.0 x16

Max memory 3 GB

Core clock 1708 MHz

Memory clock 2000 MHz

DirectX 12.0

OpenGL 4.5

Max TDP 120 W

First benchmarked 2016-08-24

Samples 23,365

PassMark listing (collected 2026-09-30)

PassMark's own listing for the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB states the PCIe 3.0 x16 interface, up to 3 GB of memory, a core clock of 1708 MHz, DirectX 12.0 and OpenGL 4.5, first benchmarked on 2016-08-24. These are PassMark's figures, shown separately from the specification tables above.

Graphics processor

Architecture Pascal

Codename GP106-300-A1

Chip Not recorded

Process node Not recorded

Transistors Not recorded

Die size Not recorded

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB is based on the Pascal architecture and uses the GP106-300-A1 graphics processor.

Shader configuration

Shading units 1,152

Compute units Not recorded

Streaming multiprocessors 9

Execution units Not recorded

Texture units (TMUs) 72

Render output units (ROPs) 48

Ray tracing cores Not recorded

Tensor / AI cores Not recorded

XMX engines Not recorded

Infinity cache Not recorded

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB has 1,152 shading units, 9 streaming multiprocessors, 72 texture mapping units and 48 render output units.

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB does not use XMX engines; those are specific to Intel Arc graphics. Infinity Cache is an AMD architectural feature and does not apply to the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB. Feex has no recorded ray tracing core count for the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB.

Clock speeds

Base clock 1.51 GHz

Boost clock 1.71 GHz

Game clock Not recorded

Memory clock Not recorded

Effective memory clock Not recorded

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB runs at a base clock of 1.51 GHz and boosts to 1.71 GHz.

Memory

Size 3 GB

Type GDDR5

Bus width 192-bit

Bandwidth 192.2 GB/s

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB is equipped with 3 GB of GDDR5 memory, uses a 192-bit memory bus and delivers 192.2 GB/s of memory bandwidth.

Board and power

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB has a board power rating of 120 W and it connects over PCIe 3.0 x16.

Board power (TDP) 120 W

Total board power Not recorded

Suggested PSU Not recorded

Power connectors Not recorded

Slot width Not recorded

Length Not recorded

Width Not recorded

Height Not recorded

Cooler Not recorded

Max temperature Not recorded

Bus interface PCIe 3.0 x16

Market

Launched August 18, 2016

Launch price Not recorded

Status Not recorded

Form factor Not recorded

Segment Desktop

Series GeForce GTX 10 Series

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB was released on August 18, 2016.

Benchmarks

PassMark G3D 9,846

PassMark G2D 776

Rank #300

Samples 23,365

Graphics and compute APIs

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB supports DirectX 12, OpenGL 4.6, Vulkan 1.4 and CUDA compute capability 6.1.

DirectX 12

OpenGL 4.6

Vulkan 1.4

CUDA compute capability 6.1

Feex has no recorded OpenCL version for the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB.

Features

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB has 1 supported feature recorded outside the media engine. A feature that no source mentions is shown as not listed, never as unsupported.

Compute and AI

Supported: CUDA Compute capability 6.1

Support for NVIDIA's CUDA computing platform, used by many creative, scientific and AI applications.

Not listed (2)

No source Feex holds states whether the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB supports Tensor cores and NVLink / SLI. That is silence, not a statement that they are unsupported.

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB supports CUDA (Compute capability 6.1) under Compute and AI.

Feex fleet

1 Feex machine reports the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB as its graphics hardware.

1 Feex machine with this GPU

The count covers machines that have reported hardware to Feex, counted once each; excluded and test machines are not counted, and no machine identity is published.

Frequently asked questions

How much VRAM does the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB have?

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB has 3 GB of GDDR5 memory on a 192-bit bus. Its memory bandwidth is 192.2 GB/s.

How much power does the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB use and what power supply does it need?

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB has a board power rating of 120 W.

How fast is the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB?

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB scores 9,846 in the PassMark G3D benchmark, higher than 89% of the 2,658 GPUs benchmarked. Its PassMark rank is #300. In the PassMark DirectX 12 test it averages 35 fps.