The GeForce GTX 1060 Founders Edition & ASUS Strix GTX 1060 Review
by Ryan Smith on August 5, 2016 2:00 PM ESTHitman
The final game in our 2016 benchmark suite is the 2016 edition of Hitman, the latest title in the stealth-action franchise. The game offers two rendering paths: DirectX 11 and DirectX 12, with the latter being the case of DirectX 12 being added after the fact. As with past Hitman games, the latest proves to have a good mix of scenery and high model counts to stress modern video cards.
While the full API results are broken out in Bench, for this article I’m only listing the performance with the faster API for each card, as at this point we’ve seen a very consistent pattern in Hitman: AMD cards do better under DX12, while NVIDIA cards do better under DX11.
In any case, this is the one and only case where we see the GTX 1060 lose. At both 1440p and 1080p NVIDIA’s mainstream card falls to AMD’s own mainstream competitor by roughly 10%. This despite the fact that GTX 1060 enjoys a larger than normal 4-5% performance advantage over GTX 980.
As for the generational comparisons, GTX 1060 at least comes out well ahead of its predecessors. Compared to GTX 960 it delivers over twice the performance of NVIDIA’s former mainstream card, and nearly 3.5x more performance than GTX 660.
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ddriver - Friday, August 5, 2016 - link
You are imagining things, I did not state that it "doesn't make me happy", nor does this implies some website determines how I feel, the very notion is stupid on its face. As for zepi and all the other "happy" campers - it is understandable, they are "happy" because reading 'in-depth" materials cultivates an illusion of being smart, and even if they don't get the just of it, they will at least memorize a few phrases to add to their fanboy internet warrior arsenal ;)The point people seem to be missing is I was not complaining about "in-depth" articles, merely stating that vendors wouldn't be too motivated to send samples if they don't get immediate publicity for their products. And this site is not about anyone's happiness but the people who bought it to cram stupid ads in our faces for profit.
Alexvrb - Saturday, August 6, 2016 - link
The whole basis of your argument is that they won't give samples to sites that "take too long". But they didn't give samples out to many sites that DO produce swift reviews, as Devo pointed out. Nice try though, I'm sure you'll find something else to whine about soon enough. I mean, uh, something else to educate us peons on. Since you're so insightful and clever.mkaibear - Saturday, August 6, 2016 - link
Oh dear. Calm down ddriver, you'll give yourself palpitations.It amuses me that you're quite happy to throw aspersions on other people's motives for liking the in-depth articles and yet don't spot the obvious counterpoint.
Ah well. I have better things to do than argue with a troll. Ta-ta!
Fujikoma - Sunday, August 7, 2016 - link
ddriver,In the matter of cultivating the illusion of being smart...
It's 'gist of it' not 'just of it'.
ddriver - Monday, August 8, 2016 - link
OK strawmen, you win because "grammar nazi" ;)BTW would love yo see your proficiency across half a dozen of languages.
Manch - Monday, August 8, 2016 - link
It's gist, not just. If you're going to stand on your pedestal of superiority mocking all the small minded peons that disagree with your all knowing word, at least use proper grammar so they do not see that the God like keyboard warrior bleeds too, you twit...ddriver - Monday, August 8, 2016 - link
Gotta love it how with your illusions threatened you cuddle together like a herd of frightened sheep, to find comfort in your numbers, and strength to try and "make a point" using your limited arsenal of insinuations, grammar nazism and personal attacks. Hopefully you do realize that this only adds further proof to my point, not that it needed any, as it is already totally obvious. Try harder next time...snowmyr - Tuesday, August 9, 2016 - link
You're right. You seem very happy.Michael Bay - Saturday, August 6, 2016 - link
>ddriver>expecting any self-awareness
at80eighty - Saturday, August 6, 2016 - link
he's explaining why your wall of whining in response to Ryan's brief & matter-of-fact answer is irrelevant. you want average/sub-par reviews? plenty of sites available.