GTX 1060 3GB + Core i5-6500 — benchmark

Verified WhatFPS run October 25, 2026 (app 0.36.1). Every number below was measured in the rig and HMAC-signed — not estimated, not self-reported.

Scores

• GAMING (whole PC): 1,884
• GPU score: 1,084
• CPU score: 3,750
• RAM score: 7,422
• Drive score: 3,310

Four graphics APIs

• Earth II (Vulkan): 6.4 FPS (1 % low 5.7 FPS)
• Mission to Earth II (DX12): 7.7 FPS (1 % low 7.1 FPS)
• Earth II Landing (DX12 Ultimate): 7.2 FPS (1 % low 7.1 FPS)
• Supernova (DX11): 44.1 FPS (1 % low 36.7 FPS)

The hardware

• Graphics card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB, 3 GB VRAM (MSI)
• Driver (seen): 32.0.15.6094
• Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-6500 CPU @ 3.20GHz, 4 / 4 cores/threads, L3 6 MB
• Memory: Kingston FURY Beast DDR4-3200 CL16 2×8 GB
• System drive: Samsung PM871 (OEM) 512 GB
• Motherboard: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. Z170 PRO GAMING
• BIOS: 2003
• Operating system: Windows 10 (19045)

Raw values

• ALU (compute): 78,391
• Memory bandwidth: 65 GB/s
• Draw calls/s (DX11): 5,286,054
• Single-thread (1T): 0.38 Gop/s
• Integer (MT): 1.4 Gop/s
• Bandwidth, one thread: 17,032 MB/s
• RAM latency (lower is better): 82.3 ns
• Sequential read: 504 MB/s
• 4K IOPS: 7,630
• 4K latency, median (lower is better): 121 µs

The GAMING score is a geometric mean of GPU (63 %), CPU (30 %), RAM (5 %) and drive (2 %) — a weak part cannot hide behind a strong one. Every run is HMAC-signed in the app and scored on the server. The full methodology is open at https://whatfps.com/metodik

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