What Can the NVIDIA GTX 1060 6GB Run?
6 GB · compatibility with 168 AI models
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Short answer: the NVIDIA GTX 1060 6GB (6 GB) can run 132 of 168 AI image, video, 3D and audio models we track. Best picks: Stable Diffusion 1.5, SD 1.5 img2img, SD 1.5 Inpainting, Stable Diffusion 1.4. Minimum for most SD models.
| Perfect | Great | Good | Usable | Barely | Can't Run |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13 models | 0 models | 14 models | 58 models | 47 models | 36 models |
NVIDIA GTX 1060 6GB specs for AI
| Brand | NVIDIA |
|---|---|
| Series | GTX 10 |
| VRAM | 6 GB |
| Architecture | pascal |
| FP16 compute | 0.09 TFLOPS |
| Memory bandwidth | 192 GB/s |
| FP8 support | No |
| Released | 2016 |
| Launch price | $249 |
AI models on the NVIDIA GTX 1060 6GB
Each model uses the best format that fits in 6 GB. How ratings work.
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| Model | Rating | Runs as | VRAM used | Speed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stable Diffusion 1.5 | Good | FP16 | 4 GB | Moderate |
| Stable Diffusion 1.4 | Good | FP16 | 4 GB | Moderate |
| Stable Diffusion 2.1 | Usable | FP16 | 5 GB | Moderate |
| Stable Diffusion 2.0 | Usable | FP16 | 5 GB | Moderate |
| Qwen-Image 2.1 | Usable | GGUF Q4 | 4 GB | Slow |
| Flux.2 Klein 4B | Usable | GGUF Q4 | 4 GB | Slow |
| Z-Image Turbo | Usable | GGUF Q4 | 5 GB | Slow |
| MOSS-Image 5B | Usable | GGUF Q4 | 5 GB | Slow |
| FLUX.2 Klein 9B | Usable | GGUF Q4 | 5 GB | Slow |
| ERNIE-Image 8B | Usable | GGUF Q4 | 5 GB | Slow |
| Chroma1 HD | Usable | GGUF Q4 | 5 GB | Slow |
| Flux.1 Lite | Usable | GGUF Q4 | 5 GB | Slow |
| SDXL Base 1.0 | Usable | Offload | 4 GB | Very Slow |
| SDXL Turbo | Usable | Offload | 4 GB | Very Slow |
| Animagine XL 3.1 | Usable | Offload | 4 GB | Very Slow |
| Pony Diffusion v6 XL | Usable | Offload | 4 GB | Very Slow |
| NoobAI XL | Usable | Offload | 4 GB | Very Slow |
| Juggernaut XL Ragnarok | Usable | Offload | 4 GB | Very Slow |
| SDXL Lightning 4-step | Usable | Offload | 4 GB | Very Slow |
| DreamShaper XL | Usable | Offload | 4 GB | Very Slow |
| Illustrious XL v1.0 | Usable | Offload | 4 GB | Very Slow |
| Playground v2.5 2.6B | Usable | Offload | 4 GB | Very Slow |
| RealVisXL v5.0 | Usable | Offload | 4 GB | Very Slow |
| HiDream-O1-Image 8.8B | Usable | Offload | 4 GB | Very Slow |
| Epicrealism XL | Usable | Offload | 4 GB | Very Slow |
| PixArt-Sigma 900M | Usable | Offload | 4 GB | Very Slow |
| PixArt-Alpha 600M | Usable | FP16 | 6 GB | Slow |
| SDXL Hyper 1-step | Usable | Offload | 4 GB | Very Slow |
| HunyuanDiT 1.5B | Usable | Offload | 4 GB | Very Slow |
| Stable Diffusion 3.5 Medium (2.5B) | Barely | Offload | 5 GB | Very Slow |
| Stable Diffusion 3 Medium (2B) | Barely | Offload | 5 GB | Very Slow |
| Z-Image Base | Barely | GGUF Q4 | 6 GB | Slow |
| Ideogram 4.0 | Barely | GGUF Q4 | 6 GB | Slow |
| Ming-Image 0.1 Design | Barely | GGUF Q4 | 6 GB | Slow |
| Stable Diffusion 3.5 Large (8B) | Barely | GGUF Q3 | 6 GB | Very Slow |
| Stable Diffusion 3.5 Large Turbo | Barely | GGUF Q3 | 6 GB | Very Slow |
| FLUX.1 Krea Dev | Barely | GGUF Q3 | 6 GB | Very Slow |
| Krea 2 Turbo | Barely | Offload | 6 GB | Very Slow |
| Flux.1 Dev 12B | Barely | Offload | 6 GB | Very Slow |
| Flux.1 Schnell 12B | Barely | Offload | 6 GB | Very Slow |
| HunyuanImage 3.0 | Barely | Offload | 6 GB | Very Slow |
| AuraFlow 0.3 | Barely | Offload | 6 GB | Very Slow |
| Kolors | Barely | Offload | 6 GB | Very Slow |
| Qwen-Image 2512 (20B) | Can't Run | — | needs 8 GB | — |
| Flux.2 Dev 32B | Can't Run | — | needs 12 GB | — |
| Seedream 3.0 | Can't Run | — | needs 8 GB | — |
| GLM-Image | Can't Run | — | needs 8 GB | — |
Image to Image
| Model | Rating | Runs as | VRAM used | Speed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SD 1.5 img2img | Good | FP16 | 4 GB | Moderate |
| InstructPix2Pix | Usable | FP16 | 5 GB | Moderate |
| Mage-Flow 4B | Usable | GGUF Q4 | 4 GB | Slow |
| SDXL img2img | Usable | Offload | 4 GB | Very Slow |
| Boogu-Image Edit | Barely | GGUF Q4 | 6 GB | Slow |
| LongCat-Image Edit | Barely | GGUF Q4 | 6 GB | Slow |
| Flux.1 Dev img2img 12B | Barely | Offload | 6 GB | Very Slow |
| Flux Kontext Dev | Barely | Offload | 6 GB | Very Slow |
| IP-Adapter FaceID SDXL | Barely | Offload | 6 GB | Very Slow |
| IP-Adapter SDXL | Barely | Offload | 6 GB | Very Slow |
| Qwen-Image-Edit 2511 | Can't Run | — | needs 8 GB | — |
Inpainting
| Model | Rating | Runs as | VRAM used | Speed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SD 1.5 Inpainting | Good | FP16 | 4 GB | Moderate |
| SDXL Inpainting | Usable | Offload | 4 GB | Very Slow |
| BrushNet | Usable | Offload | 4 GB | Very Slow |
| PowerPaint v2.1 | Usable | Offload | 4 GB | Very Slow |
| Flux.1 Fill Dev | Barely | Offload | 6 GB | Very Slow |
ControlNet
| Model | Rating | Runs as | VRAM used | Speed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ControlNet SD 1.5 | Usable | FP16 | 5 GB | Moderate |
| T2I-Adapter SDXL | Barely | Offload | 5 GB | Very Slow |
| ControlNet SDXL | Barely | Offload | 6 GB | Very Slow |
| ControlNet Flux | Can't Run | — | needs 8 GB | — |
Video
| Model | Rating | Runs as | VRAM used | Speed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| WAN 2.2 TI2V 5B | Usable | GGUF Q4 | 5 GB | Slow |
| CogVideoX 5B | Usable | GGUF Q4 | 5 GB | Slow |
| CogVideoX 5B I2V | Usable | GGUF Q4 | 5 GB | Slow |
| Kandinsky 6.0 Video Lite 3B | Usable | Offload | 3 GB | Very Slow |
| WAN 2.1 T2V 1.3B | Usable | FP16 | 6 GB | Slow |
| LTX-Video 0.9 (2B) | Usable | Offload | 4 GB | Very Slow |
| LTX-Video I2V | Usable | Offload | 4 GB | Very Slow |
| AnimateDiff Lightning | Usable | FP16 | 6 GB | Slow |
| CogVideoX 2B | Usable | Offload | 4 GB | Very Slow |
| AnimateDiff v3 (SD 1.5) | Usable | FP16 | 6 GB | Slow |
| ZeroScope v2 576w | Usable | FP16 | 6 GB | Slow |
| AnimateDiff V2V | Usable | FP16 | 6 GB | Slow |
| AnimateDiff I2V | Usable | FP16 | 6 GB | Slow |
| Ovi 1.1 | Barely | Offload | 5 GB | Very Slow |
| HunyuanVideo T2V v1.5 | Barely | GGUF Q3 | 6 GB | Very Slow |
| HunyuanVideo I2V v1.5 | Barely | GGUF Q3 | 6 GB | Very Slow |
| HunyuanVideo 13B T2V | Barely | GGUF Q3 | 6 GB | Very Slow |
| HunyuanVideo I2V | Barely | GGUF Q3 | 6 GB | Very Slow |
| WAN 2.2 T2V A14B (MoE) | Barely | Offload | 6 GB | Very Slow |
| WAN 2.2 I2V A14B | Barely | Offload | 6 GB | Very Slow |
| WAN 2.1 T2V 14B | Barely | Offload | 6 GB | Very Slow |
| WAN 2.1 I2V 480P 14B | Barely | Offload | 6 GB | Very Slow |
| WAN 2.1 V2V | Barely | Offload | 6 GB | Very Slow |
| Stable Video Diffusion 1.1 | Barely | Offload | 6 GB | Very Slow |
| ModelScope T2V | Barely | Offload | 6 GB | Very Slow |
| SkyReels V1 | Barely | Offload | 6 GB | Very Slow |
| SkyReels V1 I2V | Barely | Offload | 6 GB | Very Slow |
| LongCat-Video 13.6B | Barely | Offload | 6 GB | Very Slow |
| TokenFlow | Barely | Offload | 6 GB | Very Slow |
| Latte | Barely | Offload | 6 GB | Very Slow |
| SEINE | Barely | Offload | 6 GB | Very Slow |
| SkyReels V3 R2V 14B | Barely | Offload | 6 GB | Very Slow |
| Waver 1.0 | Barely | Offload | 6 GB | Very Slow |
| MiniMax H3 FL2VA | Can't Run | — | needs 8 GB | — |
| MiniMax H3 Ref2VA | Can't Run | — | needs 8 GB | — |
| Wan 2.2 Animate 14B | Can't Run | — | needs 8 GB | — |
| Wan 2.2 S2V 14B | Can't Run | — | needs 7 GB | — |
| WAN 2.1 I2V 720P 14B | Can't Run | — | needs 8 GB | — |
| LTX-2.5 22B | Can't Run | — | needs 8 GB | — |
| LTX-2.3 22B | Can't Run | — | needs 8 GB | — |
| LTX-2 19B | Can't Run | — | needs 8 GB | — |
| Wan-Animate-2 14B | Can't Run | — | needs 7 GB | — |
| SCAIL-2 14B | Can't Run | — | needs 7 GB | — |
| LTX-Video 13B | Can't Run | — | needs 12 GB | — |
| FramePack I2V HY FP8 | Can't Run | — | needs 8 GB | — |
| MOVA | Can't Run | — | needs 29 GB | — |
| Mochi 1 10B | Can't Run | — | needs 16 GB | — |
| Wan-Dancer 14B | Can't Run | — | needs 7 GB | — |
| HuMo 17B | Can't Run | — | needs 7 GB | — |
| Open-Sora 2.0 (11B) | Can't Run | — | needs 12 GB | — |
| MAGI-1 | Can't Run | — | needs 12 GB | — |
| Stable Video Diffusion XT 1.1 (25 frames) | Can't Run | — | needs 8 GB | — |
| DynamiCrafter 512 | Can't Run | — | needs 8 GB | — |
| DynamiCrafter 1024 | Can't Run | — | needs 12 GB | — |
| AnimateDiff SDXL | Can't Run | — | needs 8 GB | — |
Upscaler
| Model | Rating | Runs as | VRAM used | Speed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4x-UltraSharp | Perfect | FP32 | 0.3 GB | Fast |
| 4x-Remacri | Perfect | FP32 | 0.3 GB | Fast |
| SwinIR | Perfect | FP32 | 0.5 GB | Fast |
| RealESRGAN x4plus | Perfect | FP32 | 0.3 GB | Fast |
| HAT | Perfect | FP32 | 0.5 GB | Fast |
| DAT | Perfect | FP32 | 0.5 GB | Fast |
| ScuNET | Perfect | FP32 | 0.3 GB | Fast |
| LDSR | Good | FP16 | 4 GB | Moderate |
| SeedVR2 3B | Usable | GGUF Q4 | 4 GB | Slow |
| SeedVR2 7B | Usable | GGUF Q4 | 5 GB | Slow |
Face/Restore
| Model | Rating | Runs as | VRAM used | Speed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GFPGAN v1.4 | Perfect | FP32 | 0.3 GB | Fast |
| CodeFormer v0.1 | Perfect | FP32 | 0.3 GB | Fast |
VAE
| Model | Rating | Runs as | VRAM used | Speed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SD 1.5 VAE ft-mse | Perfect | FP32 | 0.2 GB | Fast |
| Flux VAE | Perfect | FP32 | 0.3 GB | Fast |
| SDXL VAE | Perfect | FP32 | 0.3 GB | Fast |
| TAESD / TAESDXL | Perfect | FP32 | 0.1 GB | Fast |
3D
| Model | Rating | Runs as | VRAM used | Speed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| TripoSR | Good | FP16 | 4 GB | Moderate |
| Shap-E | Good | FP16 | 4 GB | Moderate |
| InstantMesh | Usable | FP16 | 6 GB | Slow |
| Zero123++ v1.2 | Usable | FP16 | 6 GB | Slow |
| LGM | Usable | Offload | 4 GB | Very Slow |
| One-2-3-45 | Usable | Offload | 4 GB | Very Slow |
| Hunyuan3D 2.0 | Barely | Offload | 6 GB | Very Slow |
| SV3D | Barely | Offload | 6 GB | Very Slow |
| TRELLIS.2 4B | Can't Run | — | needs 12 GB | — |
| Pixal3D | Can't Run | — | needs 10 GB | — |
| Hunyuan3D 2.1 | Can't Run | — | needs 10 GB | — |
| SAM 3D Objects | Can't Run | — | needs 32 GB | — |
Audio
| Model | Rating | Runs as | VRAM used | Speed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MusicGen Small (300M) | Good | FP16 | 2 GB | Moderate |
| XTTS v2 | Good | FP16 | 3 GB | Moderate |
| Stable Audio 3 Small-SFX | Good | FP16 | 3 GB | Moderate |
| Whisper Large v3 | Good | FP16 | 4 GB | Moderate |
| Chatterbox Multilingual | Good | FP16 | 4 GB | Moderate |
| MMAudio Large 44k | Good | FP16 | 4 GB | Moderate |
| Stable Audio Open | Good | FP16 | 4 GB | Moderate |
| Qwen3-TTS 1.7B | Usable | FP16 | 5 GB | Moderate |
| MusicGen Medium (1.5B) | Usable | FP16 | 6 GB | Slow |
| ACE-Step 1.5 Turbo | Usable | Offload | 4 GB | Very Slow |
| Bark | Usable | Offload | 4 GB | Very Slow |
| IndexTTS 2.5 | Usable | FP16 | 6 GB | Slow |
| Stable Audio 3 Medium | Barely | Offload | 5 GB | Very Slow |
| MusicGen Large (3.3B) | Barely | Offload | 6 GB | Very Slow |
| YuE2 3B | Can't Run | — | needs 8 GB | — |
| MiniMax Music 3 | Can't Run | — | needs 8 GB | — |
| VibeVoice 1.5B | Can't Run | — | needs 6 GB | — |
| Fish Audio S2 Pro 4B | Can't Run | — | needs 7 GB | — |
Frequently asked questions
How much VRAM does the NVIDIA GTX 1060 6GB have?
The NVIDIA GTX 1060 6GB has 6 GB of VRAM with 192 GB/s of memory bandwidth.
What AI models can the NVIDIA GTX 1060 6GB run?
It can run 132 of the 168 AI models we track: 13 perfectly (S), 0 great (A), 14 good (B), 58 usable (C) and 47 barely (D). 36 need more VRAM than it has.
Can the NVIDIA GTX 1060 6GB run MiniMax H3 FL2VA?
No — Needs 8GB+ VRAM, your GPU has 6GB.
Can the NVIDIA GTX 1060 6GB run MiniMax H3 Ref2VA?
No — Needs 8GB+ VRAM, your GPU has 6GB.
Can the NVIDIA GTX 1060 6GB run Qwen-Image 2.1?
Yes, in GGUF Q4 (rating C, usable).
Can the NVIDIA GTX 1060 6GB run Z-Image Turbo?
Yes, in GGUF Q4 (rating C, usable).