The GeForce GTX 1060 Founders Edition & ASUS Strix GTX 1060 Review
by Ryan Smith on August 5, 2016 2:00 PM ESTThe Division
The final first person shooter in our benchmark suite, The Division is a online-only game powered by Ubisoft’s Snowdrop engine. The game’s design focuses on detailed urban environments and utilizes dynamic global illumination for parts of its lighting. For our testing we use the game’s built-in benchmark, which cycles through a number of scenes/areas of the game.
For whatever reason, the GTX 980 has always hit above its weight in The Division, and as a result this is the one game where the GTX 1060 can’t stay at parity with the one-time NVIDIA flagship. In fact this is another case where the GTX 1060 can’t quite muster 60fps at 1080p, falling just short at 58.9fps. However the ASUS card does get to do what the reference card cannot, with its factory overclock adding another 7% to the total.
Meanwhile compared to the AMD competition, this is the second instance of GTX 1060 and RX 480 coming in virtually tied. At both 1440p and 1080p the cards are off by less than 1fps, so while GTX 1060 is typically comfortably ahead of AMD’s best, that’s not always the case.
Finally, compared to the GTX 960 we’re looking at a 73% performance gain. Past that, the generational gains get especially large; by the time we’re looking at GTX 660, GTX 1060 delivers more than 3x the performance.
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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.