GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 3 GB: specs and benchmarks
Summary
NVIDIA started GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 3 GB sales 27 June 2017. This is a laptop graphics card based on a Pascal architecture and made with 16 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamers. 3 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 8.01 GHz are supplied, and together with 192 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 192.2 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is a graphics card attached via PCIe 3.0 x16 interface. Power consumption is at 80 Watt.
Primary details
Some basic facts about GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 3 GB: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in performance ranking | not rated | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Architecture | Pascal (2016−2021) | |
| GPU code name | GP106 | |
| Market segment | Laptop | |
| Release date | 27 June 2017 (7 years ago) |
Detailed specifications
GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 3 GB's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 3 GB's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 1280 | of 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
| Core clock speed | 1265 MHz | of 2610 MHz (Radeon RX 6500 XT) |
| Boost clock speed | 1480 MHz | of 3599 MHz (Radeon RX 7990 XTX) |
| Number of transistors | 4,400 million | of 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 16 nm | of 4 nm (H100 PCIe) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 80 Watt | of 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem) |
| Texture fill rate | 118.4 | of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
Form factor & compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 3 GB and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).
| Interface | PCIe 3.0 x16 | |
| Supplementary power connectors | None |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of memory installed on GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 3 GB: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.
| Memory type | GDDR5 | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 3 GB | of 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X) |
| Memory bus width | 192 Bit | of 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | 8008 MHz | of 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER) |
| Memory bandwidth | 192.2 GB/s | of 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
API compatibility
APIs supported by GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 3 GB, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 12.0 | |
| Shader Model | 5.0 | |
| OpenGL | 4.5 | of 4.6 (GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile) |
| OpenCL | 1.2 | |
| CUDA | 6.1 |
Recommended processors
These processors are most commonly used with GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 3 GB according to our statistics.
