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GeForce GTX 1060 6GB

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Release date ≈ Q2 2018.

Average Bench: 56.8% (91st of 685)

Based on 57,254 user benchmarks.  Device: 10DE 1B83 Model: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB
Poor: 52%Average: 56.8% Great: 62%

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Average average bench

The Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 6GB averaged 43.2% lower than the peak scores attained by the group leaders. This isn't a great result which indicates that there are much faster alternatives on the comparison list.

Strengths

Avg. Locally-deformable PRT (Bat) 70.4fps
Avg. NBody particle system (Galaxy) 70.3fps

Excellent consistency

The range of scores (95th - 5th percentile) for the Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 6GB is just 9.78%. This is an extremely narrow range which indicates that the Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 6GB performs superbly consistently under varying real world conditions.

Weaknesses

Avg. High dynamic range lighting (Teapot) 77.1fps
Avg. Parallax occlusion mapping (Stones) 66.9fps
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Average Bench

(Based on 57,254 samples)
Rank 9156.8%
Min Avg Max
63.7 Lighting 70.4 77.8
67.1 Reflection 77.1 110
59.9 Parallax 66.9 74
56.9% 71.5 fps
Min Avg Max
61.9 MRender 69.4 85.7
64.7 Gravity 70.3 74.3
60 Splatting 64.9 70.3
56.6% 68.2 fps
User Benchmarks Bench 3D DX9 3D DX10 3D DX11
The fastest GPU (mainstream) averages a speed of 100%
MSI(1462 328D) ≥ 4GB
CLim: 2012 MHz, MLim: 2080 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 517.48
59.8% Above average
Lighting 73.2
Reflection 118
Parallax 73.2
59% 88.1 fps
MRender 71.5
Gravity 75.8
Splatting 70.3
61% 72.5 fps
Asus(1043 8655) ≥ 4GB
CLim: 2088 MHz, MLim: 2102 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 512.15
58.9% Above average
Lighting 73.3
Reflection 76.8
Parallax 69.6
59% 73.2 fps
MRender 68.3
Gravity 73.1
Splatting 70
58% 70.5 fps
Asus(1043 8655) ≥ 4GB
CLim: 1974 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 457.30
57.2% Above average
Lighting 71.1
Reflection 75.2
Parallax 69.2
58% 71.8 fps
MRender 67.4
Gravity 70.9
Splatting 67.8
57% 68.7 fps
MSI(1462 328E) ≥ 4GB
CLim: 1923 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 516.94
56.3% Above average
Lighting 70.1
Reflection 72.2
Parallax 67.7
57% 70 fps
MRender 67.3
Gravity 69.6
Splatting 66
56% 67.6 fps
Asus(1043 8655) ≥ 4GB
CLim: 1974 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 517.48
54.8% Above average
Lighting 66.6
Reflection 74.3
Parallax 67.5
54% 69.5 fps
MRender 66.8
Gravity 69.8
Splatting 67.1
56% 67.9 fps
Nvidia(10DE 12D9) ≥ 4GB
CLim: 1923 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 517.48
53.5% Above average
Lighting 65
Reflection 96.1
Parallax 57.4
52% 72.8 fps
MRender 69.2
Gravity 67.3
Splatting 64.7
54% 67.1 fps
Zotac(19DA 1438) ≥ 4GB
CLim: 1961 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 517.48
52.8% Above average
Lighting 62.7
Reflection 85.8
Parallax 54.4
51% 67.6 fps
MRender 66
Gravity 69.2
Splatting 55.1
55% 63.4 fps
Nvidia(10DE 1B83) ≥ 4GB
CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 516.94
41.8% Average
Lighting 50.3
Reflection 51.5
Parallax 46.2
41% 49.3 fps
MRender 46.7
Gravity 54.7
Splatting 49.1
43% 50.2 fps
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The number of benchmark samples for this model as a percentage of all 55,453,915 GPUs tested.

 Popular Cards

Based on statistics from 57,254 user benchmarks.

Hardware Id Samples Bench ± SD Model / Price
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Nvidia(10DE 12D9) 20% 58% ± 3%
Zotac(19DA 3451) 20% 57% ± 3%
Gigabyte(1458 371A) 16% 55% ± 2%
MSI(1462 328D) 11% 57% ± 2%
Asus(1043 8655) 10% 56% ± 2%
Nvidia(10DE 1B83) 6% 57% ± 3%
Nvidia(10DE 11C0) 4% 56% ± 3%
PNY(196E 11D8) 3% 59% ± 2%
Gigabyte(1458 37CD) 3% 57% ± 2%
MSI(1462 328F) 2% 56% ± 1%
MSI(1462 336F) 2% 57% ± 2%
Zotac(19DA 1438) 2% 55% ± 2%
MSI(1462 328E) 1% 56% ± 3%
Zotac(19DA 4381) 0% 54% ± 3%
Device(7377 0000) 0% 58% ± 0%
Device(1B4C 12D9) 0% 56% ± 2%
Gigabyte(1458 37CA) 0% 59% ± 0%
Asus(1043 8658) 0% 56% ± 0%
Asus(1043 8656) 0% 53% ± 0%
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Desktop 79%
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Workstation 44%
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Motherboard: Gigabyte B450M DS3H - $75

CPU
Ryzen 5 2600AMD  $194Bench 73%, 326,117 samples2,433x
Ryzen 5 3600AMD  $138Bench 83%, 752,007 samples1,794x
Ryzen 5 2600XAMD  $188Bench 74%, 106,192 samples736x
GPU
GeForce GTX 1060 6GBNvidiaBench 57%, 57,254 samples1x
SSD
A400 240GBKingston  $22Bench 66%, 424,288 samples476x
A400 480GBKingston  $35Bench 74%, 237,487 samples291x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung  $75Bench 105%, 762,998 samples241x
RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair  $53Bench 85%, 653,654 samples630x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair  $60Bench 82%, 606,405 samples410x
Ripjaws V DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBG.SKILL  $53Bench 84%, 287,720 samples280x
EDIT WITH CUSTOM PC BUILDER Value: 86% - Excellent Total price: $344

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