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This year's DirectX 12 driver is a separate driver for

Dec. 22, 2017 by Kimberly Parks

This year's DirectX 12 driver is a separate driver for the GeForce GTX 1060. The GeForce GTX 1060 has also been confirmed to work with DXR, as we've reported previously.

We also have a couple of other tidbits that should help us understand what's going on with the performance of the GTX 1060. Here's a quick look at the following three things.

Gigapixels per Second per Second for NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060:

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 has a maximum 4Gbps per second performance. That's around 20x faster than its predecessor, and it's much better than the GeForce GTX 1070. That's because of the memory chip's 3GB of L3 cache. The performance bump is only about 4x faster than when you add in the 3GB of L3 cache on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060. The difference is quite considerable. So what's going on? Is the GPU a quad-core? The answer, of course, is no. The Radeon R9 295X2 and R9 290X are quad-core units. The GeForce GTX 1060 has a quad-core 1.5GHz processor and a 1GB GDDR5 memory bus. There is also a dual-core 2.2GHz processor and a DDR3-1600 memory interface. The Radeon R9 295X2 has 3GB of DDR3 RAM and a 1GB GDDR5 memory interface.

GPU performance on GTX 1060 is in the same ballpark as on the GeForce GTX 1070. As you'll see below, the GTX 1060 is more powerful and more performant than the GTX 1070. It has faster x86 and a bit faster nForce-based CUDA cores, and it's more powerful and more powerful than the GTX 1070.

The AMD Radeon R9 295X2, along with the GeForce GTX 1060, is also the fastest GPU on the market.