
NVIDIA has paired 3,072 MB GDDR5 memory with the GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB, which are connected using a 192-bit memory interface. It features 1152 shading units, 72 texture mapping units, and 48 ROPs. Unlike the fully unlocked GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB, which uses the same GPU but has all 1280 shaders enabled, NVIDIA has disabled some shading units on the GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB to reach the product's target shader count. The GP106 graphics processor is an average sized chip with a die area of 200 mm² and 4,400 million transistors. This ensures that all modern games will run on GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB. Built on the 16 nm process, and based on the GP106 graphics processor, in its GP106-300-A1 variant, the card supports DirectX 12.

The GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB was a performance-segment graphics card by NVIDIA, launched on August 18th, 2016.
