The GeForce GTX 1060 Founders Edition & ASUS Strix GTX 1060 Review
by Ryan Smith on August 5, 2016 2:00 PM ESTCrysis 3
Still one of our most punishing benchmarks 3 years later, Crysis 3 needs no introduction. Crytek’s DX11 masterpiece, Crysis 3’s Very High settings still punish even the best of video cards, never mind the rest. Along with its high performance requirements, Crysis 3 is a rather balanced game in terms of power consumption and vendor optimizations. As a result it can give us a good look at how our video cards stack up on average, and later on in this article how power consumption plays out.
Whereas Battlefield 4 was rather forgiving to the GTX 1060 at even 1440p, Crysis 3 is the opposite. While over 30fps, 42fps leaves a long way to go before hitting the all-important 60fps fluidity mark for this FPS. At 1080p on the other hand it has no trouble sustaining over 60fps. This does, however, end up being one of the only games where GTX 1060 isn’t neck-and-neck with GTX 980. Even the factory overclocked ASUS card is a bit off of GTX 980, though it’s still 4% ahead of the stock GTX 1060.
Compared to the GTX 1070 then, the GTX 1060 delivers fairly typical performance at 73% of its faster sibling. Versus GTX 960 this is a 71% performance gain, which is actually the smallest performance gain we’ll see throughout our entire benchmark suite. On which note, looking farther down the charts we have to compare GTX 1060 against GTX 660 to find a better than 2x performance increase.
Finally, against the RX 480, GTX 1060 once again delivers a 14% performance gain versus its closest competition.
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lilmoe - Saturday, August 6, 2016 - link
This is becoming the next "where is Kai" thing. This is getting redundant and, frankly extremely rude. Stop. I started enjoying some of their content AFTER Anand left.There's quite a bit of bias, but regulars can ignore all that and focus on the important info they're looking for.
We made it clear to them that we expect better in terms of quality and timely delivery. I'm sure they listened and took 7 Notes.
TallestJon96 - Friday, August 5, 2016 - link
I think this is the best card of NVIDIAs lineup so far. Generationally, it destroys the previous card, which frankly the 960 sucked, especially compared to the 760 or the 970. The 960s only saving grace was the $200 price point. 2gb wasn't good, the 970 crushed it, the 380 was a better deal, and even the 760 beat it sometimes.Compared to the 960, its 80% faster, has 3x times the ram, and costs $50 more.
Most importantly, this card will be a success vecause it is the card that can easily handle 1080p60 at a good price. Like the 970 before it, the gtx 1060 handles 1080p with ease, and will continue to do so with 15% more performance than the 970 and 2gb more ram.
I will recommend this card to many people.
fanofanand - Friday, August 5, 2016 - link
I love that people keep claiming this is a $250 card. Maybe someday, but that day isn't today.bananaforscale - Friday, August 5, 2016 - link
Maybe it is, excluding (VAT and import) taxes, margins and such.HollyDOL - Saturday, August 6, 2016 - link
Cheapest model (from Zotac) around here costs $326 :-(eddman - Saturday, August 6, 2016 - link
There are four $250 1060s on newegg, with the same specs as the FE version.fanofanand - Saturday, August 6, 2016 - link
You mean the listings titled "out of stock"? Of course there are higher priced versions available. Surprise surprise.eddman - Saturday, August 6, 2016 - link
As if 480s aren't out of stock. The point is, there ARE $250 1060s. Availability is another matter.bug77 - Monday, August 8, 2016 - link
It says "ships in 3-5 days" on most of them, so I don't see your problem.Mugur - Sunday, August 7, 2016 - link
In my country the Zotac mini 1060 is cheaper with the equivalent of 25$ than the cheapest RX 480 8 GB...