GeForce GTX 1060 6GB
The third-oldest graphics processor in the Pascal family is designed as half of the GP104. At least, this fully applies to the front-end GPU, which includes two of the four GPCs (the constructs in NVIDIA's latest architectures that contain the bulk of the compute and graphics pipeline) present in GP104, leaving the GTX 1060 with half the number of CUDA cores and texture mapping units found in the GTX 1080.
However, if the GM206 (GeForce GTX 960) was almost half of the GM104 (GeForce GTX 980) in all respects, then the GP106 in terms of its back-end composition returns to the positions of the GK106 from the Kepler series, since the new chip is equipped with a 192-bit memory bus instead of a 128-bit one. Indeed, in terms of theoretical shader ALU performance, the new product is not that much different from the GeForce GTX 980, hence the increased memory bandwidth (MBP) requirements. NVIDIA could solve this problem with GDDR5X memory, but the latter is still far from being widely used, so the GP106 relies on a relatively wide memory for GPU NVIDIA has the RAM bus in this class, and the more efficient delta color compression introduced in Pascal eliminates any residual difference in memory bandwidth between the GTX 1060 and GTX 980.
Since in NVIDIA's architecture each 32-bit memory controller is associated with 8 ROPs and a segment of L2 cache, in these parameters the GP106 also represents 75% of the GP104: 48 ROPs and 1,536 MB of L2. Functionally, the GP106 is equivalent to the older gaming GPU Pascal family: the new architecture brought specific optimizations for the VR environment and the uncore section of the chip, which contains an updated set of image output interfaces and an H.265 video encoding/decoding block.
Characteristics of GeForce GeForce GTX 1060 6GB
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GPU The GeForce GTX 1060 operates at a base frequency of 1506 MHz - similar to the GeForce GTX 1070 - with the difference that the GTX 1060 has a higher Boost Clock, which is located between the corresponding characteristics of the GTX 1070 and GTX 1080. The video card is equipped with 6 GB of GDDR5 SDRAM memory, operating at a speed of 8 Gbps per contact. The GeForce GTX 1060 is designed for a thermal package of 120 W - this is 30 W less than the TDP of the Radeon RX 480 (150 W).
