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GeForce GTX 1060 6GB

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Release date ≈ Q2 2018.

Average Bench: 56.4% (104th of 698)

Based on 56,417 user benchmarks.  Device: 10DE 1B83 Model: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB
Poor: 51%Average: 56.4% Great: 62%

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Average average bench

The Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 6GB averaged 43.6% 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) 69.8fps
Avg. Force Splatted Flocking (Swarm) 65.5fps

Very good consistency

The range of scores (95th - 5th percentile) for the Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 6GB is just 10.8%. This is a relatively narrow range which indicates that the Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 6GB performs reasonably consistently under varying real world conditions.

Weaknesses

Avg. High dynamic range lighting (Teapot) 77.1fps
Avg. Parallax occlusion mapping (Stones) 66.3fps
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Average Bench

(Based on 56,417 samples)
Rank 10456.4%
Min Avg Max
63.2 Lighting 69.8 77.2
67.9 Reflection 77.1 108
58.9 Parallax 66.3 73.1
56.9% 71.1 fps
Min Avg Max
61 MRender 68.3 84.7
64.8 Gravity 69.8 74.6
60.7 Splatting 65.5 70.3
55.4% 67.9 fps
User Benchmarks Bench 3D DX9 3D DX10 3D DX11
The fastest GPU (mainstream) averages a speed of 100%
Zotac(19DA 3451) ≥ 4GB
CLim: 2012 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 516.94
62.1% Good
Lighting 76.6
Reflection 76.4
Parallax 70.6
62% 74.5 fps
MRender 84.5
Gravity 74.8
Splatting 69.1
62% 76.1 fps
Asus(1043 8655) ≥ 4GB
CLim: 1974 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 496.13
57.7% Above average
Lighting 71.8
Reflection 75.3
Parallax 69.2
58% 72.1 fps
MRender 67.4
Gravity 70.8
Splatting 67.9
56% 68.7 fps
Gigabyte(1458 371A) ≥ 4GB
CLim: 1961 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 516.94
56.2% Above average
Lighting 69.4
Reflection 73.5
Parallax 67.1
57% 70 fps
MRender 66.2
Gravity 70
Splatting 66.9
55% 67.7 fps
Gigabyte(1458 371A) ≥ 4GB
CLim: 1961 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 531.41
55.9% Above average
Lighting 68.1
Reflection 75.8
Parallax 69.2
56% 71 fps
MRender 67.5
Gravity 71.5
Splatting 68.5
57% 69.2 fps
Nvidia(10DE 12D9) ≥ 4GB
CLim: 1923 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 531.41
55.7% Above average
Lighting 67.8
Reflection 74
Parallax 66.7
55% 69.5 fps
MRender 69.9
Gravity 70.6
Splatting 67.4
57% 69.3 fps
MSI(1462 328D) ≥ 4GB
CLim: 1974 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 516.94
55.2% Above average
Lighting 69.4
Reflection 71.3
Parallax 65
57% 68.6 fps
MRender 61.4
Gravity 67.8
Splatting 63.4
53% 64.2 fps
Gigabyte(1458 371A) ≥ 4GB
CLim: 1961 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 472.12
55.1% Above average
Lighting 67.7
Reflection 73.5
Parallax 66.8
55% 69.3 fps
MRender 66.4
Gravity 69.3
Splatting 66.3
55% 67.3 fps
Asus(1043 8655) ≥ 4GB
CLim: 1974 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 526.98
54.6% Above average
Lighting 68.1
Reflection 71.8
Parallax 65.3
56% 68.4 fps
MRender 62.2
Gravity 67.7
Splatting 63.9
53% 64.6 fps
Nvidia(10DE 12D9) ≥ 4GB
CLim: 1923 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 531.18
54.4% Above average
Lighting 66.8
Reflection 70.7
Parallax 64.4
54% 67.3 fps
MRender 68.4
Gravity 67.7
Splatting 64
54% 66.7 fps
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Hardware Id Samples Bench ± SD Model / Price
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Zotac(19DA 3451) 20% 57% ± 4%
Nvidia(10DE 12D9) 19% 57% ± 3%
Gigabyte(1458 371A) 18% 56% ± 2%
MSI(1462 328D) 13% 57% ± 2%
Asus(1043 8655) 12% 55% ± 2%
Nvidia(10DE 1B83) 4% 55% ± 2%
Nvidia(10DE 11C0) 3% 56% ± 2%
Gigabyte(1458 37CD) 2% 55% ± 3%
PNY(196E 11D8) 2% 59% ± 3%
MSI(1462 336F) 2% 56% ± 3%
Zotac(19DA 1438) 2% 54% ± 2%
MSI(1462 328E) 2% 56% ± 3%
MSI(1462 328F) 1% 53% ± 3%
Zotac(19DA 4381) 1% 58% ± 1%
Asus(1043 8656) 0% 59% ± 3%
Gigabyte(1458 373B) 0% 53% ± 0%
Gigabyte(1458 37CA) 0% 56% ± 0%
Asus(1043 8658) 0% 54% ± 0%
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Desktop 96%
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Workstation 56%
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Motherboard: MSI Z390-A PRO (MS-7B98) - $140

CPU
Core i7-9700KIntel  $427Bench 97%, 550,833 samples5,780x
Core i5-9600KIntel  $242Bench 93%, 321,194 samples5,626x
Core i9-9900KIntel  $350Bench 98%, 354,223 samples2,767x
GPU
GeForce GTX 1060 6GBNvidiaBench 56%, 56,417 samples1x
SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung  $75Bench 105%, 762,998 samples928x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung  $138Bench 112%, 602,853 samples782x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung  $55Bench 310%, 455,997 samples699x
RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair  $43Bench 85%, 653,654 samples1,487x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair  $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples1,083x
Vengeance RGB PRO DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair  $55Bench 85%, 346,786 samples706x
EDIT WITH CUSTOM PC BUILDER Value: 84% - Excellent Total price: $685

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