The MSI GeForce GTX 1060 Gaming X is one beautiful looking graphics card, sporting MSI’s Twin Frozr VI cooler in vivid red. Coupled with a pair of Torx 2.0 fans, MSI wants you to get every drop of juice out of its Gaming X graphics cards!
Specifications
- Graphics Processing Unit – NVIDIA GeForce® GTX 1060
- Interface- PCI Express x16 3.0
- Boost / Base Core Clock
1809 MHz / 1594 MHz (OC Mode)
1784 MHz / 1569 MHz (Gaming Mode)
1708 MHz / 1506 MHz (Silent Mode) - Memory Size (MB) – 6144
- Memory Type – GDDR5
- Memory Interface – 192-bit
- Memory Clock Speed
8108 MHz (OC Mode)
8008 MHz (Gaming Mode)
8008 MHz (Silent Mode) - Output – DisplayPort x 3 (Version 1.4) / HDMI (Version 2.0) / DL-DVI-D
- Digital Maximum Resolution – 7680 x 4320
- Virtual Reality Ready – Y
- Maximum Displays – 4
- HDCP Support – 2.2
- DirectX Version Support – 12
- OpenGL Version Support – 4.5
- Card Dimension(mm) – 277 x 140 x 39 mm
- Card Weight (g) – 1017
- Power consumption (W) – 120
- Recommended PSU (W) – 400
- Power Connectors – 8-pin x 1
Here’s a quick comparison of the GeForce GTX 10 series from Nvidia (default reference specs) …
| GeForce GTX 1080 | GeForce GTX 1070 | GeForce GTX 1060 | GeForce GTX 980 | |
| Architecture | Pascal | Pascal | Pascal | Maxwell |
| CUDA Cores | 2560 | 1920 | 1280 | 2048 |
| Frame Buffer | 8GB GDDR5 / GDDR5X | 8GB GDDR5 | 6GB GDDR5 | 4GB GDDR5 |
| Base Clock Speed | 1607 MHz |
1506 MHz |
1506 MHz |
1126 MHz |
| Boost Clock Speed | 1733 MHz | 1683 MHz |
1708 MHz |
1216 MHz |
| Memory Speed | 10Gbps | 8 Gbps | 8 Gbps | 7Gbps |
| Memory Bus | 256-bit | 256-bit | 192-bit | 256-bit |
| DX12 Support | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Vulkan API | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
So the GTX 1060 is the little baby of the Pascal GPU range with just half the CUDA cores of the GTX 1080, and a reduced memory bus, but just how far does it fall behind the GTX 1070 and GTX 1080? And how does it compare with last generation’s GTX 980?
