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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile is a laptop graphics processor released on August 16, 2016, built on the Pascal architecture using a 16 nm process. It has 1,280 shading units, 6 GB of GDDR5 memory on a 192-bit bus, 192.0 GB/s of memory bandwidth, a boost clock of 1.67 GHz and a 80 W board power rating. It scores 8,160 in the PassMark G3D benchmark. It supports DirectX 12, OpenGL 4.6, Vulkan 1.4, OpenCL 1.2 and CUDA compute capability 6.1.

PascalGP10616 nmMobile

10/10 key specs recorded · 34 facts

Depth: 44 recorded fields, 1 feature, 5 PassMark workloads

Specification data last verified October 1, 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

1,280cores

Memory

6 GB

GDDR5 · 192-bit

Boost clock

1.67 GHz

1.40 GHz base

Board power

80 W

Performance

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile scores 8,160 in the PassMark G3D benchmark, higher than 86.7% of the 2,658 GPUs benchmarked (PassMark rank #361), measured across 1,660 submitted results. Its PassMark G2D score is 444.

PassMark G3D Mark

8,160

Rank #361
Faster than 86.7% of 2,658 GPUs
1,660 samples

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

PassMark workload tests

DirectX 9 137 fps

reference: fastest recorded 526 fps · faster than 82.3% of 1,675 GPUs

DirectX 10 49 fps

reference: fastest recorded 231 fps · faster than 76.4% of 1,602 GPUs

DirectX 11 65 fps

reference: fastest recorded 362 fps · faster than 76.3% of 1,430 GPUs

DirectX 12 29 fps

reference: fastest recorded 213 fps · faster than 65.1% of 1,274 GPUs

GPU Compute 3,055 ops/s

reference: fastest recorded 26,591 ops/s · faster than 74.4% 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 Mobile averages DirectX 9 137 fps, DirectX 10 49 fps, DirectX 11 65 fps, DirectX 12 29 fps and GPU Compute 3,055 ops/s, across 1,660 submitted results. Frames per second are PassMark test-scene rates, not game frame rates.

As stated by PassMark

Category Mobile

Bus interface PCIe 3.0 x16

Max memory 6 GB

Core clock 1404 MHz

Memory clock 2000 MHz

DirectX 12

OpenGL 4.5

Max TDP 80 W

First benchmarked 2019-04-10

Samples 1,660

PassMark listing (collected 2026-10-01)

PassMark's own listing for the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile states the PCIe 3.0 x16 interface, up to 6 GB of memory, a core clock of 1404 MHz, DirectX 12 and OpenGL 4.5, first benchmarked on 2019-04-10. These are PassMark's figures, shown separately from the specification tables above.

Not to be confused with

This page covers the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile specifically. It is a different product from NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5GB, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 with Max-Q Design, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Rev. 2, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q, which have their own specifications. Check the exact model name before comparing figures.

Graphics processor

Architecture Pascal

Codename GP106

Chip Not recorded

Process node 16 nm

Transistors 4,400 M

Die size 200 mm²

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile is based on the Pascal architecture, uses the GP106 graphics processor, is manufactured on a 16 nm process, contains 4,400 million transistors and has a die size of 200 mm².

Shader configuration

Shading units 1,280

Compute units Not recorded

Streaming multiprocessors Not recorded

Execution units Not recorded

Texture units (TMUs) 80

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 Mobile has 1,280 shading units, 80 texture mapping units and 48 render output units.

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile 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 Mobile. Feex has no recorded ray tracing core count for the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile.

Clock speeds

Base clock 1.40 GHz

Boost clock 1.67 GHz

Game clock Not recorded

Memory clock Not recorded

Effective memory clock Not recorded

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile runs at a base clock of 1.40 GHz and boosts to 1.67 GHz.

Memory

Size 6 GB

Type GDDR5

Bus width 192-bit

Bandwidth 192.0 GB/s

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile is equipped with 6 GB of GDDR5 memory, uses a 192-bit memory bus and delivers 192.0 GB/s of memory bandwidth.

Board and power

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile has a board power rating of 80 W and it connects over PCIe 3.0 x16.

Board power (TDP) 80 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 16, 2016

Launch price Not recorded

Status Not recorded

Form factor Not recorded

Segment Laptop

Series GeForce GTX 10 Series

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile was released on August 16, 2016.

Benchmarks

PassMark G3D 8,160

PassMark G2D 444

Rank #361

Samples 1,660

Graphics and compute APIs

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile supports DirectX 12, OpenGL 4.6, Vulkan 1.4, OpenCL 1.2 and CUDA compute capability 6.1.

DirectX 12

OpenGL 4.6

Vulkan 1.4

OpenCL 1.2

CUDA compute capability 6.1

Features

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile 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 Mobile supports Tensor cores and NVLink / SLI. That is silence, not a statement that they are unsupported.

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

Frequently asked questions

How much VRAM does the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile have?

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile has 6 GB of GDDR5 memory on a 192-bit bus. Its memory bandwidth is 192.0 GB/s.

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

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile has a board power rating of 80 W.

How fast is the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile?

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile scores 8,160 in the PassMark G3D benchmark, higher than 86.7% of the 2,658 GPUs benchmarked. Its PassMark rank is #361. In the PassMark DirectX 12 test it averages 29 fps.