NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Offers Great Performance On Linux

Next up are some performance-per-Watt numbers generated by the Phoronix Test Suite while it was polling the AC system power consumption using a WattsUp Pro power meter.

For the OpenCL test, the GTX 1060 performance-per-Watt was much greater than the GTX 900 Maxwell GPUs but less than the efficiency of the higher-end GTX 1070 and GTX 1080 graphics cards.

With F1 2015 we see how much more power efficient than Pascal GPUs are compared to Maxwell as well as AMD's competition.

The performance-per-Watt when comparing the GTX 960 to GTX 1060 is simply jaw-dropping.

Only with Unigine Heaven where the AMD Linux driver stack competes well does the performance-per-Watt of the RX 480 Polaris come close to the GTX 1060 Pascal.