GeForce 1060 GTX – test compared with the RX 480, GTX-970 and I-I GTX 980 – PCLab.pl

Conspiracy theories fallen. Nvidia and AMD, much to the surprise of some not shared market graphics cards on a “Greens – high-end red – mainstream”) Nvidia despite an unbeatable offer in the segment leading design, where margins are high, does not forgive means the offer and segment cards for roughly 1200-1500 zł. The company apparently just waiting to see how falls Radeon RX 480, and match it to its offer (mainly price). And so we got the GeForce 1060 GTX.

GeForce 1060 GTX

GeForce 1060 GTX is the youngest and smallest child at the same time Nvidia, which continues the series pascalowych new green. GeForce 1080 GTX has brought unmatched performance and GeForce 1070 GTX Titan X assured performance at twice lower price. Possibilities GTX-and 1060 was therefore quite easy to predict: Performance gap between the GTX-I in 1070 and 1060 could not be too large, and since that first reached the top models of the previous generation, tysiącsześćdziesiątka should jump down a rung in the hierarchy, that is the place, where to now permanent structures such as the GeForce GTX 980 and Radeon R9 390x.

GeForce 1060 GTX is based on the core GP106, and so far the smallest representative of the family Pascal. Despite the small area of ​​200 mm ² (GTX 960 had 227 mm ² ), thanks to the 16-nanometer FinFET process manages to fit almost 4.5 billion transistors . The GP106 There are two clusters GPC ( Graphics Processing Cluster ), where there were 10 SM ( Streaming Multiprocessor ). Small tysiącsześćdziesiątka has 1280 CUDA cores and is thus more or less half-GTX and 1080 more or less, because tysiącosiemdziesiątka is equipped with 64 units rasterizing, and the novelty is the 48, or two-thirds of the GP104. That’s right, while the number of units TMU (texturing): GeForce GTX 1060 of 80 (in 1080 GTX-ie there are 160).

Specification core GP106 determined by Nvidia provides clocking base with a frequency of 1506 MHz (which means slower tysiącsześćdziesiątek no longer will), which thanks to technology GPU Boost 3.0 is expected to accelerate to about 1708 MHz. In practice, the company’s products and its partners always in games are clocked faster, which can be seen on the following pages, which give the values ​​for the reference model and the design of individual equipment manufacturers.

	R9 390x	GTX 1060	RX 480	GTX 980	GTX 970
Architecture	GCN 2. gen.	Pascal	GCN 4. gen.	Maxwell	Maxwell
shader	2816	1280	2304	2048	1664
ROP	64	48	32	64	56
Texture units	176	80	144	128	104
core clock	1050 MHz	1506 MHz 1708 MHz (Boost)	1120 MHz 1266 MHz (Boost)	1126 MHz 1216 MHz (Boost)	1050 MHz 1178 MHz (Boost)
The computational power	~ 5913 gigaflops	~ 4042 gigaflopy	~ 5161 gigaflops	~ 4612 gigaflops	~ 3494 gigaflopy
fill rate pixels	~ 67.2 Gp / s	~ 75.8 gp / s	~ 35.8 gp / s	~ 72.1 gp / s	~ 58.8 gp / s
fill rate textures	~ 184.8 Gt / s	~ 126.3 Gt / s	~ 161.3 Gt / s	~ 201.3 Gt / s	~ 281.9 Gt / s
memory Clock	1500 MHz	2000 MHz	2000 MHz	1750 MHz	1750 MHz
memory bus	512 b	192 b	256 b	256 b	256 b
type memory	8192 MB GDDR5	6144 MB GDDR5	8192 MB GDDR5	4096 MB GDDR5	4096 MB GDDR5
memory Bandwidth	384.0 GB / s	192.0 GB / s	256.0 GB / s	224.0 GB / s	224.0 GB / s
Supported API	DirectX 12	DirectX 12	DirectX 12	DirectX 12	DirectX 12
Video connector	PCI-E 3.0	PCI-E 3.0	PCI-E 3.0	PCI-E 3.0	PCI-E 3.0

the core GP106 works via a 192-bit data bus with 6 GB of GDDR5 memory. This is about half of the more than a GeForce GTX 980, and the same as a GeForce GTX 980 Ti, but at the same time a quarter less than the Radeon provides RX 480.

Rumors of a 3-gigabyte variant cards GeForce 1060 GTX so far not confirmed, but the card with a capacity of tysiącsześćdziesiątki would rather little sense in the configuration of the memory.

on the following pages we presented reference version Founders Edition and cards sent to us by various manufacturers. Finally GTX-y in 1060 compare with three Radeon (RX 480, R9 390 R9 390x) and two GeForce’ami family Maxwell (GTX 970, GTX 980).