Calculate the TPS of the GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X on local AI models
Every model in our catalogue assessed against this card at the context length and minimum quality you choose. Speed is an estimate for a single request, calculated from this card's memory bandwidth and the size of each model once compressed.
Calculated for this card
679 models in our catalogue altogether
Largest model it holds
Qwen-VL
9.6B · Q3_K_M · 19.5 tok/s
Fastest model
Gemma 3 QAT 1B
69.2 tok/s · 1B
Which AI models can run on a GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X?
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More context means more memory for the conversation cache. Speed is for a fresh conversation and does not change with this setting.
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266 models match
Calculating| Quantisation | Fit | ||||||
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69.2
tok/s
24–138 · low confidence |
Gemma 3 1B | 1B | Mar 2025 | 1.8 GB | 33k tokens | Q8_0 | Comfortable |
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69.2
tok/s
24–138 · low confidence |
Gemma 3 QAT 1B | 1B | Apr 2025 | 1.8 GB | 33k tokens | Q8_0 | Comfortable |
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69.2
tok/s
24–138 · low confidence |
HGRN 1B (WT 103) ≈ | 1B | Nov 2023 | 1.8 GB | 131k tokens ? | Q8_0 | Comfortable |
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69.2
tok/s
24–138 · low confidence |
LLama 3..2 Typhoon 2 1B ≈ | 1B | Dec 2024 | 1.8 GB | 131k tokens ? | Q8_0 | Comfortable |
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69.2
tok/s
24–138 · low confidence |
OLMo-1B ≈ | 1B | Feb 2024 | 1.8 GB | 131k tokens ? | Q8_0 | Comfortable |
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69.2
tok/s
24–138 · low confidence |
Pythia-1b ≈ | 1B | Apr 2023 | 1.8 GB | 131k tokens ? | Q8_0 | Comfortable |
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64.1
tok/s
22–128 · low confidence |
OpenELM-1.1B ≈ | 1.1B | May 2024 | 1.9 GB | 131k tokens ? | Q8_0 | Comfortable |
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62.9
tok/s
22–126 · low confidence |
DeciCoder-1B ≈ | 1.1B | Aug 2023 | 1.9 GB | 131k tokens ? | Q8_0 | Comfortable |
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62.9
tok/s
22–126 · low confidence |
SantaCoder ≈ | 1.1B | Jan 2023 | 1.9 GB | 131k tokens ? | Q8_0 | Comfortable |
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62.9
tok/s
22–126 · low confidence |
TinyLlama-1.1B (1T token checkpoint) ≈ | 1.1B | Oct 2023 | 1.9 GB | 131k tokens ? | Q8_0 | Comfortable |
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62.9
tok/s
22–126 · low confidence |
TinyLlama-1.1B (3T token checkpoint) ≈ | 1.1B | Oct 2023 | 1.9 GB | 131k tokens ? | Q8_0 | Comfortable |
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57.7
tok/s
20–115 · low confidence |
EXAONE 4.0 (1.2B) ≈ | 1.2B | Jul 2025 | 2.0 GB | 131k tokens ? | Q8_0 | Comfortable |
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57.7
tok/s
20–115 · low confidence |
MinerU2.5 ≈ | 1.2B | Sep 2025 | 2.0 GB | 131k tokens ? | Q8_0 | Comfortable |
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57.7
tok/s
20–115 · low confidence |
Pleias 1.0 1.2B ≈ | 1.2B | Dec 2024 | 2.0 GB | 131k tokens ? | Q8_0 | Comfortable |
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57.7
tok/s
20–115 · low confidence |
Pleias-RAG-1B ≈ | 1.2B | Apr 2025 | 2.0 GB | 131k tokens ? | Q8_0 | Comfortable |
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56.3
tok/s
20–113 · low confidence |
Llama 3.2 1B | 1.2B | Sep 2024 | 2.2 GB | 113k tokens | Q8_0 | Comfortable |
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55.5
tok/s
19–111 · low confidence |
MiniCPM-1.2B ≈ | 1.2B | Jun 2024 | 2.0 GB | 131k tokens ? | Q8_0 | Comfortable |
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53.2
tok/s
19–106 · low confidence |
DeepSeek Coder 1.3B ≈ | 1.3B | Jan 2024 | 2.1 GB | 131k tokens ? | Q8_0 | Comfortable |
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53.2
tok/s
19–106 · low confidence |
DeepSeek-VL-1.3B ≈ | 1.3B | Mar 2024 | 2.1 GB | 131k tokens ? | Q8_0 | Comfortable |
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53.2
tok/s
19–106 · low confidence |
DigiRL ≈ | 1.3B | Jun 2024 | 2.1 GB | 131k tokens ? | Q8_0 | Comfortable |
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53.2
tok/s
19–106 · low confidence |
GLA Transformer 1.3B ≈ | 1.3B | Aug 2024 | 2.1 GB | 131k tokens ? | Q8_0 | Comfortable |
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53.2
tok/s
19–106 · low confidence |
Janus 1.3B ≈ | 1.3B | Oct 2024 | 2.1 GB | 131k tokens ? | Q8_0 | Comfortable |
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53.2
tok/s
19–106 · low confidence |
Kosmos-2.5 ≈ | 1.3B | Aug 2024 | 2.1 GB | 131k tokens ? | Q8_0 | Comfortable |
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53.2
tok/s
19–106 · low confidence |
Otter ≈ | 1.3B | May 2023 | 2.1 GB | 131k tokens ? | Q8_0 | Comfortable |
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53.2
tok/s
19–106 · low confidence |
Phi-1 ≈ | 1.3B | Oct 2023 | 2.1 GB | 131k tokens ? | Q8_0 | Comfortable |
Speeds are estimates for a single request — one conversation at a time — calculated from memory bandwidth, model size and quantisation. Real throughput varies with the inference runtime and its version. Figures published by hardware vendors measure many simultaneous requests and are much higher.
On record
GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X full specification
Everything on record for this board, ordered by how much it bears on running a language model rather than by how a spec sheet would list it. Memory comes first because it decides the outcome; the rest is context.
Memory
The two specifications that decide what this card can run and how quickly. Capacity sets which models fit; bandwidth sets how many tokens per second they produce once they do.
- Memory size
- 6 GB
- Memory bandwidth
- 192 GB/s
- Memory type
- GDDR5X
- Memory bus width
- 192 bit
- Memory clock
- 1 GHz
The chip
Which processor is on the board and how it was manufactured. A smaller process size generally means more performance for the same power.
- Graphics processor
- GP104
- Architecture
- Pascal
- Generation
- GeForce 10
- Foundry
- TSMC
- Process size
- 16 nm
- Transistors
- 7.2 billion
- Transistor density
- 22,900 K/mm²
- Die size
- 314 mm²
- Package
- BGA-2150
- Released
- 18 October 2018
Clock speeds
How fast the processor runs. Worth far less here than on a gaming benchmark: generating text is limited by memory bandwidth, so a higher clock barely moves the result.
- Base clock
- 1.51 GHz
- Boost clock
- 1.71 GHz
Processing units
What the chip contains. These drive graphics performance and matter mainly for processing a long prompt rather than for producing the answer.
- Shading units
- 1,280
- Texture mapping units
- 80
- Render output units
- 48
- Streaming multiprocessors
- 10
- L1 cache
- 48 KB
- L2 cache
- 1.5 MB
Theoretical performance
Peak arithmetic rates published for the board. These are ceilings that no real workload reaches, and generating text reaches a small fraction of them because it is limited by memory rather than arithmetic.
- Half precision (FP16)
- 68.4 GFLOPS
- Single precision (FP32)
- 4.4 TFLOPS
- Double precision (FP64)
- 136.7 GFLOPS
- Pixel rate
- 82 GPixel/s
- Texture rate
- 137 GTexel/s
The board
What it takes to physically install and power the card — the practical constraints that decide whether it fits the machine you already own.
- Power draw (TDP)
- 120 W
- Suggested power supply
- 300 W
- Power connectors
- 1x 6-pin
- Bus interface
- PCIe 3.0 x16
- Slot width
- Dual-slot
- Dimensions
- 250 mm
- Display outputs
- 1x DVI, 1x HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Software support
Which graphics and compute interfaces the card supports. CUDA compute capability is the one that bears on inference: below 7.0 there are no tensor cores, and modern inference software falls back to slower code paths.
- CUDA compute capability
- 6.1
- DirectX
- 12.1
- OpenGL
- 4.6
- Vulkan
- 1.4
- OpenCL
- 3.0
- Shader model
- 6.8
Listings
Where to buy a GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X
No vendor is currently listing this card. Listings come from vendors who publish them here directly — browse the vendor directory to see who is selling what.
What the numbers mean
Capacity and bandwidth
Memory
6 GB
Bandwidth
192 GB/s
Largest model
Qwen-VL
At 6 GB of GDDR5X the GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X is limited to the smaller end of the catalogue. About 5.4 GB is actually available to a runtime, and a model has to fit entirely inside it before generating anything at all.
At 192 GB/s across a 192-bit bus, bandwidth is this card's real constraint. Every token requires reading the entire model out of memory, so a large model will feel slow here even when it fits.
That comes from a 1 GHz memory clock across the bus width above. Widening the bus and raising the clock are the two levers a manufacturer has, which is why a card with unremarkable cores can still generate quickly.
In practice that combination tops out at Qwen-VL — 9.6B, compressed to Q3_K_M, generating around 19.5 tokens per second.
The chip and how it was built
The GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X is built on the GP104 graphics processor, using NVIDIA's Pascal architecture, as part of the GeForce 10 generation.
The chip is manufactured by TSMC, on a 16 nm process, with a die measuring 314 mm², holding 7.2 billion transistors. A smaller process generally means more performance for the same power, though for language models it matters far less than the memory subsystem.
It was released in October 2018, roughly 7 years ago. Inference software support tends to follow hardware by a year or two, so a card of this age generally has mature, well-optimised code paths available to it.
Compute throughput, and why it matters less than it looks
FP16
68.4 GFLOPS
FP64
136.7 GFLOPS
On paper the GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X reaches 68.4 GFLOPS at half precision and 4.4 TFLOPS at single precision. These are peak figures no real workload sustains, and generating text reaches only a small fraction of them — decoding is limited by memory rather than arithmetic, which is why a card can look enormously powerful here and still produce tokens at an ordinary rate.
Double-precision throughput is 136.7 GFLOPS. It has no bearing on running a language model — no inference runtime uses it — but it separates datacentre parts from consumer ones, since the latter deliberately restrict it.
Clocks run from 1.51 GHz at base to 1.71 GHz boosted. Worth far less here than on a gaming benchmark: raising the clock speeds up the arithmetic, and the arithmetic is not what generation is waiting on.
Cache and processing units
The GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X has 48 KB of L1 cache, backed by 1.5 MB of L2. Cache absorbs a share of the memory traffic that would otherwise hit the main bus, which is the one place on this page where a number other than bandwidth quietly affects generation speed — a large L2 lets more of the working set stay close to the cores.
There are 1,280 shading units, 80 texture mapping units, and 48 render output units. These drive graphics workloads and contribute to prompt processing, but they sit idle for much of the time a model spends generating a reply.
Power, size and installation
Power draw
120 W
The GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X is rated at 120 W, with a 300 W power supply suggested for the whole system. Running a language model keeps a card busy in bursts rather than continuously — it draws hard while generating and idles between requests — so sustained draw over a working day is usually well below the rated figure.
The board occupies a dual-slot, measuring 250 mm long, and needs 1x 6-pin. Worth checking against the case and power supply already in the machine, since the largest cards need considerably more of both than a typical desktop provides.
It connects over PCIe 3.0 x16. The interface governs how quickly a model is loaded from disk into the card, not how fast it runs once there, so a narrower link costs a few seconds at startup and nothing thereafter.
The extremes
The largest AI models that run on a GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X
The biggest open-weight models that fit on this card, newest first. Each is shown at the best compression the card can hold.
The fastest AI models on a GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X
Where this card produces tokens quickest. Smaller models dominate here, because generating each token means reading the whole model out of memory once.
Step by step
How to work out the tokens per second of a GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X
You do not have to calculate anything by hand — the gputps.com calculator on this page has already worked it out for every model this card can hold. Reading off the answer takes six steps.
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Start with the model, not the specification
All 266 models the GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X handles are already listed. The search box takes a name or a size such as 27b, which matches on parameter count.
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Set the context length you will actually use
Longer conversations cost memory on top of the weights. With 6 GB to work in, that is frequently the difference between a model fitting and not.
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Pin the comparison to one quality level
Compression is what lets bigger models fit. The quality control drops any model that needs more of it than you are willing to give.
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Read the speed and the range
Each speed is an estimate for a single conversation, with a range beneath it — 69.2 tok/s on Gemma 3 QAT 1B at the top end here. The same card and model vary by thirty to fifty per cent between inference runtimes.
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Read the fit verdict last
Compare what each model needs with the 6 GB this card provides. Tight means it works today; comfortable means it still works when the conversation grows.
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Check the same model from the other side
Following a model through to its own page lists all the hardware that can run it, so you can see where the GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X sits against the alternatives.
Answers
GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X — common questions
What AI models can a GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X run?
266 of the 679 open-weight language models we track fit on a GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X and can be run locally on it. The table on this page lists every one, with the memory it needs, the quantisation it runs at and an estimated generation speed.
What is the largest AI model a GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X can run?
The largest model in our catalogue that fits on a GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X is Qwen-VL at 9.6B parameters, compressed to Q3_K_M. It generates roughly 19.5 tokens per second and needs about 5.4 GB of the card's memory.
How many tokens per second does a GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X produce?
It depends on the model. On a GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X the fastest model we track is Gemma 3 QAT 1B at about 69.2 tokens per second, while larger models run proportionally slower because each token requires reading the whole model out of memory once. Speeds are estimates for a single conversation at a time.
Can a GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X run a 7B model?
Yes. For example a GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X runs MetaMath 7B (Mistral finetune) at IQ4_XS, using about 5.1 GB of memory and generating around 24.3 tokens per second.
How much memory does a GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X have?
A GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X has 6 GB of GDDR5X memory. Around a tenth of that is reserved by the inference runtime and the driver, leaving roughly 5.4 GB available for a model and its conversation.
What is the memory bandwidth of a GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X?
The GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X has 192 GB/s of memory bandwidth, across a 192-bit memory bus. This is the single best predictor of how fast it generates text, because producing each token means reading the entire model out of memory once.
What type of memory does a GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X use?
It uses GDDR5X clocked at 1 GHz. HBM types are found on datacentre accelerators and carry far more bandwidth than the GDDR used on desktop cards, which is why they generate tokens considerably faster at the same capacity.
Who makes the GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X?
The GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X is a NVIDIA product, with the chip manufactured by TSMC, on a 16 nm process.
When was the GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X released?
The GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X was released in October 2018.
How much power does a GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X use?
The GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X has a rated board power of 120 W, and a 300 W system power supply is suggested. Generating text draws hard in bursts and idles between requests, so average consumption over a working session is normally well below the rated figure.
How much cache does a GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X have?
The GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X has 48 KB of L1 cache, and 1.5 MB of L2 cache. Cache absorbs part of the memory traffic that would otherwise reach the main bus, so a larger L2 gives a modest lift to generation speed beyond what bandwidth alone predicts.
What are the TFLOPS of a GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X?
The GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X is rated at 68.4 GFLOPS at half precision and 4.4 TFLOPS at single precision. These are peak arithmetic ceilings rather than achievable rates, and text generation reaches only a small fraction of them because it is limited by memory bandwidth instead.
Does the GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X support CUDA?
Yes. The GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X reports CUDA compute capability 6.1, which predates tensor cores. Capability 7.0 and above has tensor cores, which modern inference software uses; below that it falls back to slower code paths for quantised models.
What bus interface does the GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X use?
It uses PCIe 3.0 x16. This governs how fast a model is loaded onto the card rather than how fast it runs once loaded, so it costs a few seconds at startup and nothing during generation.
Is the GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X good for running local AI models?
Its memory limits it to smaller models though its bandwidth means generation will feel slow on larger models. In total it runs 266 of the models we track. Whether that is enough depends entirely on which model you want — the table above answers that directly.
Can a GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X run a model that does not fit in its memory?
It can be split, with the overflow held in system memory — but that part drags the whole thing down, and none of the 6 GB figures on this page assume it.
Would two GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X cards be twice as fast?
Capacity adds, throughput does not. Two of them give you 12 GB to work with rather than twice the tokens per second — every figure here is for a single GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X.
The other direction
Looking at it from the other side?
This page starts from the hardware. If you already know which model you want and need to know what it takes to run it, start from the model instead.