The GeForce GTX 1060 Founders Edition & ASUS Strix GTX 1060 Review
by Ryan Smith on August 5, 2016 2:00 PM ESTThe Witcher 3
The third game in CD Projekt RED’s expansive RPG series, The Witcher 3 is our RPG benchmark of choice. Utilizing the company’s in-house engine, REDengine 3, The Witcher makes use of an array of DirectX 11 features, all of which combine to make the game both stunning and surprisingly GPU-intensive. Our benchmark is based on an action-heavy in-engine cutscene early in the game, and Hairworks is disabled.
In terms of absolute performance, I’m a bit surprised that the GTX 1060 can’t crack 60fps at 1080p. 57.6 isn’t too far off the mark, but for what’s otherwise meant to be NVIDIA’s ultimate 1080p gaming card, it’s not quite ultimate enough to hit 60fps on a year-old game.
In any case this does put GTX 1060 a bit farther behind the GTX 980 than usual, delivering around 94% of its high-end predecessor’s performance. Or to compare the card to GTX 960, it nets a 75% performance gain. Otherwise this also happens to be a game where the GTX 1060/1070 gap is a smidge larger than usual, with GTX 1060 delivering 70% of GTX 1070’s performance.
Finally, as for the RX 480 comparison, GTX 1060 is yet again solidly in the lead. Here we see it deliver 12-15% more performance than the 8GB RX 480, depending on the resolution.
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Mikuni - Saturday, August 6, 2016 - link
Avidemux works pretty well.onemoar@gmail.com - Saturday, August 6, 2016 - link
here is my luxmark scoreoverclocked EVGA GTX 1060SC
http://www.luxmark.info/node/2919
Mustalainen - Saturday, August 6, 2016 - link
I think i have commented once or twice on any article here but just had to do it again. The people in the comment section are just out right arrogant. You expect the reviewer to provide the detailed reviews on the same day a product is released? Can you guys cut the guys at Anandtech some slack? I bet they do their best in order to provide us with these reviews (which by the way are free). If you are not happy with the quality of the article, go somewhere else (but i bet you always come back here just because these guys do a great job). So what if the review is lagging with a month or two, if you are such an enthusiast go and buy the card/device yourself.fanofanand - Saturday, August 6, 2016 - link
They would receive their samples weeks ahead of time. How do you think so many day 1 reviews get posted?Sushisamurai - Saturday, August 6, 2016 - link
there is some truth to @fanofanand, but that's assuming anandtech also gets their review samples ahead of time as well - which you really can't prove. Those assumptions can be toxic.Mustalainen - Sunday, August 7, 2016 - link
So assuming this is not the authors full time job they should try to rush the review for the release date? And as stated in the other comment, you can only assume they get review samples ahead of time? There are so many day 1 reviews from other sources because when they have receive the review sample the review is about reading the technical details on the box (and test 5-10 different games and report the fps if its a gpu). Do you want Anandtech to become such an site?yannigr2 - Saturday, August 6, 2016 - link
This review makes GTX 1060 look much better than RX 480, compared to other reviews. Just an observation.MarkieGcolor - Saturday, August 6, 2016 - link
Agreed. AMD really needs to release their high end. I wonder if they are in cahoots with Nvidia. Why wouldn't they release a card that can beat titan x when they totally could? With this new process both companies are holding backsilverblue - Sunday, August 7, 2016 - link
Vega isn't ready yet, that's why they've not done it.Jman13 - Tuesday, August 9, 2016 - link
That's because they ignored a lot of things where the 480 is better: such as DX12 on RotTR, where the 480 pulls essentially even with the 1060. The games list also ignores Doom, which is a HUGE win for the 480, and is included in most other review sites games suites. I understand the difficulty in altering and adding games to the suite, but I do think the discussion could have focused on the fact that there is a split between these two cards depending on which APIs are used. The 1060 is clearly the better card in DX 11 games. The 480 has generally performed very well in DX 12 games, being even in some and notably better in others. The only Vulkan game, Doom, shows a HUGE lead for the RX 480, but who knows how representative that is at this point.Long term, the 480 will probably be the faster card for newer games that use DX12, while the 1060 will be faster for most current and older games, as well as several newer games for the next year.