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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fanofanand - Saturday, August 6, 2016 - link
You keep saying that but there are no 1060s that can be bought for $249. MSRP is meaningless when none sell at that price.eddman - Saturday, August 6, 2016 - link
...and you keep at it as if it isn't the same with 480s. I just looked for 8GB 480s on newegg. All out-of-stock except for one model that is going for $400!!!I suppose you've never heard of shortages. There are $250 1060s. They simply sell as soon as they get restocked.
Dr. Swag - Friday, August 5, 2016 - link
Any word on the progress of the rx 480 review? I haven't seen any good dives on the Polaris architecture so I'm really stoked on your review!Ryan Smith - Friday, August 5, 2016 - link
I want to do a bit more on the Polaris architecture, but it will have to wait until after RX 470 and RX 460.Dr. Swag - Friday, August 5, 2016 - link
Ah OK. Thanks for the response!xenol - Friday, August 5, 2016 - link
Anyone else chuckle at the heatsinks past the fan that apparently aren't attached to anything?DanNeely - Friday, August 5, 2016 - link
Yeah those stubs are cosmetic; but there's not much to them either.Tom's has a detailed teardown of the cooler. A few ornamental fins on the front edge with the entire actual heatsink between the blower and case exhaust holes. The 1080's is about the same.
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/nvidia-geforce...
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/nvidia-geforce...
tipoo - Friday, August 5, 2016 - link
Pretty funny, main heatsink comes off and that little heatsink nub remains. Maybe it manipulates airflow to the fan, at most? Or, more likely, it's just cosmetic to make this look like a bigger GPU.Mr Perfect - Friday, August 5, 2016 - link
When you inevitably do a custom card round up, could you please get some blower style fully exhausting cards in there? It would be immensely helpful for the SFF crowd who can't stuff a tipple fan behemoth in the case, much less dump 120 watts of heat in there. Off hand, Asus has the Turbo, Gainward has one and Galax has another.fanofanand - Friday, August 5, 2016 - link
When was the last time Anandtech did a custom card roundup? They don't really do that sort of thing anymore.