GeForce GTX 1060
Nvidia graphics card · GeForce 10 series · launched December 2016
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Launch price in today's dollars
The GeForce GTX 1060 launched at $199 in 2016. Adjusted with the U.S. Consumer Price Index, that is about $274 in 2026 dollars (7-month average), a 38% rise over 10 years. At its launch price that is 179 Blender points per $100.
Method: launch price × (CPI 2026 average ÷ CPI 2016 average), calendar-year averages of BLS series CPIAUCSL. 2026 covers 7 months so far.
Blender rendering score
Median score 356 (middle half of runs 339–363) across 63 community runs on Blender 4.x with the OPTIX backend. That is #86 of 103 graphics cards in our dataset with a score, and #8 of 11 in the GeForce 10 series.
This is a rendering benchmark (samples per minute over the monster, junkshop and classroom scenes), not a gaming benchmark. It says how fast the part renders in Blender's Cycles engine and nothing about frame rates. Source: Blender Open Data, CC0, snapshot 2026-09-06.
Specifications
| Vendor | Nvidia |
|---|---|
| Series | GeForce 10 series |
| Launched | December 2016 |
| Launch price | $199 |
| Architecture | Pascal |
| Chip | GP104-140-KA-A1 |
| Memory | 3 GB |
| Memory type | GDDR5 |
| Memory bus | 192-bit |
| Memory bandwidth | 192.2 GB/s |
| Core clock | 1,506 MHz (boost 1,708 MHz) |
| FP32 compute | 3.94 TFLOPS |
| Rated power | 120 W (TDP) |
| Transistors | 7.2 billion |
| Die size | 314 mm² |
| Process | 16 nm |
| Bus interface | PCIe 3x16 |
| Tier | 60-class |
The Nvidia 60-class over time
Nvidia graphics cards in the same tier around this one, oldest first, re-releases left out. Prices in launch dollars and in 2026 dollars; scores are Blender 4.x medians where they exist.
| Part | Year | Launch price | In 2026 $ | Blender |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GeForce GTX 560 | 2011 | $199 | $293 | — |
| GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448 | 2011 | $289 | $425 | — |
| GeForce GTX 560 SE | 2012 | $149 | $215 | — |
| GeForce GTX 660 Ti | 2012 | $299 | $431 | — |
| GeForce GTX 660 | 2012 | $229 | $330 | 115 |
| GeForce GTX 760 | 2013 | $219 | $311 | 156 |
| GeForce GTX 760 X2 | 2013 | $600 | $852 | — |
| GeForce GTX 960 | 2015 | $199 | $278 | 161 |
| GeForce GTX 1060 | 2016 | $199 | $274 | 356 |
| GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB | 2018 | $299 | $394 | 364 |
| GeForce RTX 2060 | 2019 | $349 | $452 | 1,542 |
| GeForce GTX 1660 Ti | 2019 | $279 | $361 | 759 |
| GeForce GTX 1660 | 2019 | $219 | $283 | 690 |
| GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER | 2019 | $399 | $516 | 2,096 |
| GeForce GTX 1660 Super | 2019 | $229 | $296 | 749 |
| GeForce RTX 3060 Ti | 2020 | $399 | $510 | 2,780 |
Compare with
- GeForce GTX 1060 Rev. 2 · 2016 · $249
- GeForce GTX 950 Low Power · 2016 · $159
- GeForce GTX 950 · 2015 · $159 · 116
- GeForce GTX 960 · 2015 · $199 · 161
- Radeon RX 470 · 2016 · $179
- Radeon RX 480 · 2016 · $199
- Radeon R9 370X · 2015 · $179
- Radeon R9 380 · 2015 · $199
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