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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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.