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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MarkieGcolor - Friday, August 5, 2016 - link
Yes 960 sucked, but this card isn't much better. It can't sli, and you should still recommend at least a 1070 over this.Morawka - Friday, August 5, 2016 - link
just imagine how good the mobile 1060 will be. finally a $1000 laptop that can play 1080p @ 60FPS on High (not ultra)zeeBomb - Friday, August 5, 2016 - link
life is goodfanofanand - Friday, August 5, 2016 - link
The 1060 costs 30% more (reference to reference) and provides 15-30% more performance. Sounds about right, it's up to the customer's wallet to decide which one works best for them, though the 1060 seems a tiny bit overkill for 1080P gaming.Morawka - Friday, August 5, 2016 - link
nah it's not overkill.. Look at the 99th percentile numbers on all games.. thats the true number you need to be worrying about unless you have Gsync displays. if it's running 58FPS, then it might as well be 30FPS due to vsync.eddman - Saturday, August 6, 2016 - link
Turn off vsync then.Simplex - Sunday, August 7, 2016 - link
"if it's running 58FPS, then it might as well be 30FPS due to vsync"Ridiculous statement. Ever heard of triple buffering?
bug77 - Monday, August 8, 2016 - link
If you're using adaptive v-sync or fastsync (which you should), then 58fps is 58fps.eddman - Saturday, August 6, 2016 - link
30% more that what?There are 1060s at $250 and 8GB 480s at $240 on anandtech, unless you're comparing it to the 4GB 480.
eddman - Saturday, August 6, 2016 - link
Damn, I meant newegg. This is what happens when you skip lunch.