28 FPS average at 1440p across 9 games, anchored estimate · 1080p gaming, 1440p is a stretch outside older titles
28 Avg FPS Includes estimates
This card is still waiting on bench time. Until it gets there the figures are anchored estimates, interpolated from cards we measured on the same suite. Across our 9-game suite at 1440p, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB averages 28 FPS. The ceiling is Counter-Strike 2 at 52 FPS; the floor is Alan Wake 2 at 8 FPS, a 6.5x spread that tells you how engine-dependent this class of card is. In practical terms that means 1080p gaming, 1440p is a stretch outside older titles. Under load we logged a peak of 115W against the 120W rating.
| Benchmark | Result | 1% Low | VRAM Used | Power | Data |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cyberpunk 2077 1440p · Ultra | 21 FPS | 17 | 5.52 GB | 114 W | Estimated |
| Red Dead Redemption 2 1440p · Favor Quality | 24 FPS | 18 | 5.52 GB | 112 W | Estimated |
| Alan Wake 2 1440p · High | 8 FPS | 7 | 5.52 GB | 110 W | Estimated |
| Baldur's Gate 3 1440p · Ultra | 30 FPS | 25 | 5.52 GB | 115 W | Estimated |
| Black Desert Online 1440p · Remastered | 38 FPS | 24 | 5.29 GB | 114 W | Estimated |
| Counter-Strike 2 1440p · Very High | 52 FPS | 28 | 5.52 GB | 96 W | Estimated |
| Diablo 4 1440p · Ultra | 32 FPS | 25 | 5.52 GB | 113 W | Estimated |
| Escape from Tarkov 1440p · Ultra | 25 FPS | 18 | 5.52 GB | 103 W | Estimated |
| The Witcher 3 1440p · Ultra | 22 FPS | 18 | 5.52 GB | 114 W | Estimated |
| Architecture | Pascal |
| CUDA cores | 1,280 |
| VRAM | 6GB GDDR5 |
| Memory bus | 192-bit |
| Memory bandwidth | 192 GB/s |
| Boost clock | 1,708 MHz |
| TDP | 120 W |
| Process | 16nm |
| Interface | PCIe 3.0 x16 |
| Release date | 2016-07-19 |
| Launch MSRP | $249 |
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB averages 28 FPS at 1440p on our suite. This card is still waiting on bench time. Until it gets there the figures are anchored estimates, interpolated from cards we measured on the same suite.
100% = this card, Gaming headline metric (Avg FPS). #74 of 82 desktop cards in this vertical.
| GPU | Relative | % | Avg FPS |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti | 121% | 34 | |
| NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Super | 111% | 31 | |
| AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT | 107% | 30 | |
| NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Super | 104% | 29 | |
| NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB | 100% | 28 | |
| NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 | 100% | 28 | |
| NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 | 93% | 26 | |
| Intel Arc A380 | 86% | 24 | |
| NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti | 82% | 23 |
| Transistors | 4,400 million |
| Die size | 200 mm² |
| Process node | 16 nm |
| Fabricated by | TSMC |
| Transistor density | 22 million per mm² |
Denser than 61% of the 746 cards we have silicon data for. Density is the clearest measure of what a process node bought: a card that gained it without growing the die got its speed from the fab rather than the architecture.
Silicon figures from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Benchmarks on this page are our own. Compare every chip.
This card is $249 to buy. The cheapest listed rate on Vast.ai is $0.089/hour, but that is the floor: we budget $0.107/hour, a 20% premium, because idle time, storage and unavailable cheap instances all land on the same bill. At that rate buying wins after 2,331 GPU-hours. Below it you are paying for idle silicon.
| How you would use it | GPU-hours a year | Rental cost a year | Time to break even |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 hours a day, hobby | 730 | $78 | 3.2 years |
| 8 hours a day, working on it | 2,920 | $312 | 9.6 months |
| 24/7, always-on agent | 8,760 | $936 | 3.2 months |
At steady usage this card pays for itself inside a normal ownership window. Rental figures include a 20% premium over the cheapest listed rate. Ignores electricity, resale and the fact that a rented card can be a newer one tomorrow.
Cheapest of the RunPod and Vast on-demand rates we see, sampled daily. Spot and interruptible pricing runs lower.