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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB
The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB is NVIDIA’s Pascal desktop graphics card with 6 GB of GDDR5 memory, 1,280 shading units and a boost clock of 1708 MHz.
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Overview
The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB is NVIDIA’s Pascal desktop graphics card with 6 GB of GDDR5 memory, 1,280 shading units and a boost clock of 1708 MHz. These are the manufacturer’s published figures. They describe what the chip is designed to do, not what your particular machine does with it, and the gap between those two is usually cooling. A boost clock is a ceiling rather than a promise, and how long a graphics card holds it under continuous load is the one thing no specification sheet can tell you.
Specifications
- Architecture
- Pascal
- Shading units
- 1,280
- Base clock
- 1506 MHz
- Boost clock
- 1708 MHz
- Memory
- 6 GB
- Memory type
- GDDR5
- Memory bus
- 192-bit
- TDP
- 120 W
- Process
- 16 nm
- Launched
- 2016-07-19
Comparable within an architecture. Across vendors or generations it is not a like-for-like count.
Board power, not measured draw. A laptop GPU's power is a range the laptop maker chooses within.
Sources
Each figure, the label its source printed beside it, and the day it was read.
| Figure | As printed | Source | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|
| ArchitecturePascal | Release textunder GTX 1060 (Pascal) | nvidia.comSpecification page | |
| Shading units1,280 | CUDA Coresunder GTX 1060 (Pascal) | nvidia.comSpecification page | |
| Base clock1506 MHz | Base Clockunder GTX 1060 (Pascal) | nvidia.comSpecification page | |
| Boost clock1708 MHz | Boost Clockunder GTX 1060 (Pascal) | nvidia.comSpecification page | |
| Memory6 GB | Framebufferunder GTX 1060 (Pascal) | nvidia.comSpecification page | |
| Memory typeGDDR5 | Standard Memory Configunder GeForce GTX 1060 | nvidia.com, archivedArchived maker's page, captured | |
| Memory bus192-bit | Memory Interface Widthunder GeForce GTX 1060 | nvidia.com, archivedArchived maker's page, captured | |
| TDP120 W | TDPunder GTX 1060 (Pascal) | nvidia.comSpecification page | |
| Process16 nm | Manufacturing Processunder GTX 1060 (Pascal) | nvidia.comSpecification page | |
| Launched2016-07-19 | The new, much-anticipated NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 is available now | nvidia.comLaunch release |
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Compare
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What these numbers mean
Every figure on this sheet is a design target. None of it is a measurement.
Nothing above describes how a graphics card behaves twenty minutes into a sustained workload, which is where two chips with nearly identical specifications routinely diverge. A boost clock is a ceiling the vendor permits, not a rate the chip sustains, and whether it holds depends on the cooling, the case, the power profile and the room. None of those appear on a specification sheet.
We deliberately do not reduce these figures to a single score. A composite invented from specifications would look authoritative and measure nothing, and choosing the weights would be choosing the winner.