Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1060 WINDFORCE OC 3G (GV-N1060WF2OC-3GD)
 | Outdated Product £99.99 Interface: PCI-E v3.0; GPU model: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060; Memory size (GB): 3; Memory type: GDDR5; Memory bus (bits): 192; GPU clock speed (MHz): 1582; Memory clock (MHz): 8008; DVI-D: 2; HDMI: 1; Display Port: 1; Cooling: active (fan); Fans: 2; Additional power: 6 pin; Minimum PSU recommendation (W): 400 |
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Series Gigabyte Windforce (gaming)Compare using chart →
memory GDDR6X, 12 GB, 21000 MHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070, Ada Lovelace, 2490 MHz, HDMI, DisplayPort, vR support, 8 pin
memory GDDR6X, 12 GB, 21000 MHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER, Ada Lovelace, 2505 MHz, HDMI, DisplayPort, vR support, 16 pin, 220 W
memory GDDR6, 8 GB, 17000 MHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060, Ada Lovelace, 2475 MHz, HDMI, DisplayPort, vR support, 8 pin
memory GDDR6, 12 GB, 15000 MHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060, Ampere, 1792 MHz, LHR, HDMI, DisplayPort, vR support, 8 pin
memory GDDR6X, 16 GB, 21000 MHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER, Ada Lovelace, 2625 MHz, HDMI, DisplayPort, vR support, 16 pin, 285 W
memory GDDR6X, 16 GB, 23000 MHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER, Ada Lovelace, 2550 MHz, HDMI, DisplayPort, vR support, 16 pin, 320 W
memory GDDR6X, 12 GB, 21000 MHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070, Ada Lovelace, 2490 MHz, HDMI, DisplayPort, vR support, 8 pin
memory GDDR6, 4 GB, 12000 MHz, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650, 1635 MHz, DVI-D, HDMI, DisplayPort, without additional food
memory GDDR6, 16 GB, 18000 MHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti, Ada Lovelace, 2565 MHz, HDMI, DisplayPort, vR support, 8 pin
memory GDDR6X, 12 GB, 21000 MHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti, Ada Lovelace, 2625 MHz, HDMI, DisplayPort, vR support, 16 pin
memory GDDR6, 12 GB, 15000 MHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060, Ampere, 1792 MHz, LHR, HDMI, DisplayPort, vR support, 8 pin
memory GDDR6X, 16 GB, 23000 MHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER, Ada Lovelace, HDMI, DisplayPort, vR support, 16 pin, 320 W
memory GDDR6, 8 GB, 14000 MHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050, Ampere, 1792 MHz, DVI-D, HDMI, DisplayPort, vR support, 8 pin, 130 W
memory GDDR6X, 24 GB, 21000 MHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090, Ada Lovelace, 2520 MHz, HDMI, DisplayPort, vR support, 16 pin
memory GDDR6, 8 GB, 14000 MHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050, Ampere, 1792 MHz, HDMI, DisplayPort, vR support, 8 pin, 130 W
memory GDDR6X, 24 GB, 21000 MHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090, Ada Lovelace, 2520 MHz, HDMI, DisplayPort, vR support, 16 pin
memory GDDR6X, 16 GB, 22400 MHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080, Ada Lovelace, 2505 MHz, HDMI, DisplayPort, vR support, 16 pin
memory GDDR6, 6 GB, 12000 MHz, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti, 1845 MHz, HDMI, DisplayPort, vR support, backlight, 8 pin
memory GDDR6, 12 GB, 14000 MHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060, Turing, 1680 MHz, HDMI, DisplayPort, vR support, 8 pin
memory GDDR6, 8 GB, 14000 MHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti, Ampere, 1680 MHz, LHR, HDMI, DisplayPort, vR support, 8 pin
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At the limit
The three-gig version of the GeForce GTX 1060 is the maximum graphics card that cheap four-threaded Pentium Kaby Lake processors can unlock. For a 6-gig version of the GTX 1060 with an increased number of microcores (1280 versus 1152), you will need a real quad-core: Core i3 Coffee Lake, Core i5 Kaby Lake or AMD Ryzen 3. And one of the cheapest modifications of the GTX 1060-3GB is the Gigabyte WindForce 2 OC.
Copper and aluminium
Almost all useful information about the graphics card is encrypted in the model name. The word "WindForce" refers to Gigabyte's proprietary cooling system, which consists of a large aluminium heatsink, an "S"-shaped copper heat pipe, and a back plate that acts as a stiffener. An additional small heatsink is mounted on top of the power circuit transistors. The number "2" indicates the presence of a pair of fans, and ribbed ones, which reduces air whistle to a minimum.
Factory and home
Finally, the "OC" suffix indicates the presence of factory overclocking — from 1506 to 1582 MHz. Another fifty-hundred megahertz (how lucky) can be squeezed out at home by manual overclocking. Fortunately, both the GP106 graphics chip itself and the cooling system are predisposed to this. At the moment, a combination of a four-threaded processor and a Gigabyte GTX 1060 WindForce 2 OC 3GB allows you to play any modern game at FullHD resolution and at least medium graphics settings. So, there is a guaranteed performance margin for a couple of years.
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memory GDDR6X, 12 GB, 21000 MHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070, Ada Lovelace, 2490 MHz, HDMI, DisplayPort, vR support, 8 pin
memory GDDR6, 20 GB, 20000 MHz, AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT, Navi 3X (RDNA 3), 2450 MHz, HDMI, DisplayPort, 8 + 8 pin, 331 W
memory GDDR6X, 12 GB, 21000 MHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070, Ada Lovelace, 2550 MHz, HDMI, DisplayPort, vR support, 8 pin, White Edition
memory GDDR6, 8 GB, 14000 MHz, AMD Radeon RX 6600, Big Navi (RDNA 2), 2491 MHz, HDMI, DisplayPort, vR support, 8 pin
memory GDDR6, 12 GB, 15000 MHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060, Ampere, 1792 MHz, LHR, HDMI, DisplayPort, vR support, 8 pin
memory GDDR6X, 12 GB, 21000 MHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070, Ada Lovelace, 2580 MHz, HDMI, DisplayPort, vR support, backlight, 8 pin
memory GDDR6, 12 GB, 18000 MHz, AMD Radeon RX 7700 XT, Navi 3X (RDNA 3), 2584 MHz, HDMI, DisplayPort, 8 + 8 pin, 245 W
memory GDDR6, 12 GB, 15000 MHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060, Ampere, 1807 MHz, no LHR, HDMI, DisplayPort, vR support, 8 pin
memory GDDR6, 16 GB, 19500 MHz, AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT, Navi 3X (RDNA 3), 2430 MHz, HDMI, DisplayPort, 8 + 8 pin, 266 W
memory GDDR6X, 12 GB, 21000 MHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER, Ada Lovelace, 2520 MHz, HDMI, DisplayPort, vR support, 16 pin, 220 W
memory GDDR6, 16 GB, 19500 MHz, AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT, Navi 3X (RDNA 3), 2565 MHz, HDMI, DisplayPort, backlight, 8 + 8 pin, 263 W
memory GDDR6, 8 GB, 14000 MHz, AMD Radeon RX 6600, Big Navi (RDNA 2), 2491 MHz, HDMI, DisplayPort, vR support, 8 pin
