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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Samus - Sunday, August 7, 2016 - link
You are free to go elsewhere. Just about everyone else is content waiting for the most detailed and balanced reviews of products on the Internet. For free no less. 20 years ago you had to pay CR or someone like that for unbiased reviews.close - Tuesday, August 9, 2016 - link
Then isn't it ironic that you always seem to think that it's all about yours ddriver?snowmyr - Tuesday, August 9, 2016 - link
compared to your happiness? I mean you seem so upset you replied to your own post all because you misread the statement "We weren't sampled" like it was a complaint instead of just a statement of fact. Entitled people suck balls.DominionSeraph - Friday, August 5, 2016 - link
Like the GTX 960 review?Morawka - Friday, August 5, 2016 - link
guru3d is right up there with anandtech on deep dive analysis.damianrobertjones - Saturday, August 6, 2016 - link
Sire like Engadget will eventually die as sites like The Verge and Engadget thrive. Why? They're shiny, lame, breeze over the details and make people feel great about their purchases. In other words: They're filled with absolute rubbish, paid for articles, which annoys the heck out of me.Just look at Tom's Hardware... they might as well shut down.
Chaser - Saturday, August 6, 2016 - link
Really? they've gotten great, indepth reviews out on all the Nvidia Pascal cards much faster than here.Vorl - Monday, August 8, 2016 - link
That comment only works if they EVER give the reviews. There are cards they have never reviewed... so you don't get your answers no matter how long you wait.... I am not talking specific manufacturers, I am talking whole series of cards like the 960.. and so far the 1070 and 1080... I poke at this a lot because I have been coming here for years, it's even in one of my opening tabs for my browser... but they are starting to lose my faith in their ability to remain relevant.I remember when they used to do roundups and such.. haven't seen one of those in quite a while. It's not like the video world is saturated with news all the time and keeping them busy.
Ranger1065 - Saturday, August 6, 2016 - link
I am 100% with you on this ddriver, screw anyone who disagrees. Criticism is needed.Ryan Smith - Sunday, August 7, 2016 - link
Criticism is more than welcome; it's how we get better.=) I do ask that it be constructive, though.