The GeForce GTX 1060 Founders Edition & ASUS Strix GTX 1060 Review
by Ryan Smith on August 5, 2016 2:00 PM ESTDiRT Rally
For the racing game in our benchmark suite we have Codemasters’ DiRT Rally. Codemasters continues to set the bar for graphical fidelity in racing games, delivering realistic looking environments with layered with additional graphical effects. Based on their in-house EGO engine, DiRT Rally includes a number of DirectCompute based compute shader effects, and while it’s not the most punishing game in our suite, it still takes a very good card to sustain the 60fps frame rate that driving games are best played at.
DiRT Rally is another strong showing for the GTX 1060. This time even the stock clocked card edges out GTX 980, and ASUS’s factory overclocked card adds on another 10% at 1440p. This also becomes one of the few games where GTX 1060 is plenty fast for 1440p with everything turned up, as it has no problem holding over 60fps in this game.
As for the generational comparisons, GTX 1060 remains ahead of the curve for Pascal cards. Relative to GTX 960, it offers 77% better performance. Though the gap between it and GTX 1070 is also a bit larger, with GTX 1060 offering 74% of its faster sibling’s performance. Finally, against the RX 480, GTX 1060 bests its AMD competitor by 14%.
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MarkieGcolor - Friday, August 5, 2016 - link
Yes 960 sucked, but this card isn't much better. It can't sli, and you should still recommend at least a 1070 over this.Morawka - Friday, August 5, 2016 - link
just imagine how good the mobile 1060 will be. finally a $1000 laptop that can play 1080p @ 60FPS on High (not ultra)zeeBomb - Friday, August 5, 2016 - link
life is goodfanofanand - Friday, August 5, 2016 - link
The 1060 costs 30% more (reference to reference) and provides 15-30% more performance. Sounds about right, it's up to the customer's wallet to decide which one works best for them, though the 1060 seems a tiny bit overkill for 1080P gaming.Morawka - Friday, August 5, 2016 - link
nah it's not overkill.. Look at the 99th percentile numbers on all games.. thats the true number you need to be worrying about unless you have Gsync displays. if it's running 58FPS, then it might as well be 30FPS due to vsync.eddman - Saturday, August 6, 2016 - link
Turn off vsync then.Simplex - Sunday, August 7, 2016 - link
"if it's running 58FPS, then it might as well be 30FPS due to vsync"Ridiculous statement. Ever heard of triple buffering?
bug77 - Monday, August 8, 2016 - link
If you're using adaptive v-sync or fastsync (which you should), then 58fps is 58fps.eddman - Saturday, August 6, 2016 - link
30% more that what?There are 1060s at $250 and 8GB 480s at $240 on anandtech, unless you're comparing it to the 4GB 480.
eddman - Saturday, August 6, 2016 - link
Damn, I meant newegg. This is what happens when you skip lunch.