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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Founders Edition Review @ [H]

How awesome is this? We have an actual competition on our hands!

I am VERY happy that AMD has an edge in DX12 and Vulkan. I hope they can hold onto it for a generation or two, because what this will mean if they can keep the advantage in the long run and continue to trade blows with NVidia is a price creep DOWNWARD.

All hail competition!
 
pcgeekesq said:
The only thing not sold out on Newegg when I looked was the ASUS ROG STRIX 1060 OC.

So I bought it, at $349. It will do a great job running my other four monitors while the ROG STRIX 1080 runs the 4K primary display. And most importantly, it will dump a lot less heat into the case than the GTX 970 it is replacing.

For me, the output options and low power dissipation made the ROG STRIX 1060 the best card for this application. I doubt this is the norm though. :D
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Congratulations! Tell us how it does after you get it. ;)
 
I'm still a little perturbed at how happy we are about a glorified 970 almost 2 years later.

Even the appeal on lower price is dampened by the FE shenanigans.
 
Araxie said:
4 games is not enough to be confirmed that statement. at this point according this review we can just confirm the GTX 1060 is slower than a GTX 980 in the four games tested. However this hardly represent any wider landscape of also popular games specially for the mainstream market which is aimed this card. and is not only on TPU but other sites, supposedly this new format would help to save resources to have more things to test in reviews or even more games, however the end-result is just 4 games tested.

This is far for any indicative and can hardly mean a heavy weight at the moment of recommend a GPU, Guru3D also show the same behavior as TechPowerUP but on the other hand to mention another site Tom's Hardware with more game tested the results are also consistently agree with [H] Results, my point is with the high importance of [H] at the moment of recommend any card for purchase, I can't really base a recommendation purely on 4 games when then anyone out there can simply put lot of more sites that will refute any recommendation..

Im not gona say anything else in this thread to not derail as I don't like to go off topic but something that's is consistently asked is a larger suite of games to have a wider landscape of real world testing games so we can keep basing our recommendations on [H] reviews..
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If they dont test like hard then they are not really refuting much.
 
Regarding me buying an SUS ROG STRIX 1060:
WorldExclusive said:
$349??? You can buy a 980Ti new for the same money. You really wanted a 1060 regardless of price and performance.
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1) It was $329, that $349 was a typo I have now fixed.
2) I wanted it for the lower power dissipation and the ability to drive four of my five monitors. The new card ill sit three slots away from my ROG STRIX GTX 1080.
The GTX 1080 is what drives my 4K G-Sync display for games. And pretty well too.

So point is, I don't care about gaming performance on the GTX 1060. But I'm not aware of any other card that can drive two 1440p displays and two 1080p displays at as low a power dissipation as the GTX 1060 can. My current GTX 970 certainly doesn't.
 
Disappointing. I was hoping for steady GTX 980-level performance from the GTX 1060 (actually, TBH, slightly higher to account for the usual irregularities). Looks like my new backup video card purchase will be a custom AIB RX 480 8GB. Not sure what the other websites are yapping about (read a few of their reviews and was mystified by their glowing takes on the GTX 1060), but IMO NVIDIA stumbled in this round -- AMD may have stumbled first with their frustrating "failures" to make Polaris a high-end chip, but at least they made the right call and priced Polaris 10 very aggressively, while leaving adjustable pricing room for AIBs to get in on the action. Looks like NVIDIA inadvertently tripped themselves up in return (there's still a big gap between the GTX 980-ish performance of the 1060 and the GTX Titan X-ish performance of the 1070 -- possible 1060 Ti edition to come?). With the slow but steady advent of DX12, I think the RX 480 will really come into its own as a handy backup card for me (can still enjoy DX12 eye candy 1-3 years down the road during video card emergencies).
 
pcgeekesq said:
The only thing not sold out on Newegg when I looked was the ASUS ROG STRIX 1060 OC.

So I bought it, at $329. It will do a great job running my other four monitors while the ROG STRIX 1080 runs the 4K primary display. And most importantly, it will dump a lot less heat into the case than the GTX 970 it is replacing.

For me, the output options and low power dissipation made the ROG STRIX 1060 the best card for this application. I doubt this is the norm though. :D

Edit: corrected a typo, it was $329, not $349.
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?? If you're not gaming with the other four monitors, why use a 1060 to drive them. Nearly anything made in the last two years can drive four desktops pretty easily.
 
Araxie said:
4 games is not enough to be confirmed that statement. at this point according this review we can just confirm the GTX 1060 is slower than a GTX 980 in the four games tested. However this hardly represent any wider landscape of also popular games specially for the mainstream market which is aimed this card. and is not only on TPU but other sites, supposedly this new format would help to save resources to have more things to test in reviews or even more games, however the end-result is just 4 games tested.

This is far for any indicative and can hardly mean a heavy weight at the moment of recommend a GPU, Guru3D also show the same behavior as TechPowerUP but on the other hand to mention another site Tom's Hardware with more game tested the results are also consistently agree with [H] Results, my point is with the high importance of [H] at the moment of recommend any card for purchase, I can't really base a recommendation purely on 4 games when then anyone out there can simply put lot of more sites that will refute any recommendation..

Im not gona say anything else in this thread to not derail as I don't like to go off topic but something that's is consistently asked is a larger suite of games to have a wider landscape of real world testing games so we can keep basing our recommendations on [H] reviews..
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Hardwarecanucks tested 9 games without canned benchmarks.

1060 vs 980 @ 1080: won 2, ~1, lost 8

1060 vs 980 @ 1440: won 8, ~1, lost 2

Surprisingly, 1060 does better at higher resolution.
 
-Strelok- said:
Maybe people who can spend $250 but not $400?

I'm not interested in the RX 480 or any AMD card at this point because of their completely fucking useless CCC or w/e they call it now.
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or w/e they call it now? So you don't even know what the new UI is called, and yet it's crap and prevents you from buying a graphics card. Seems legit...
 
jbc029 said:
?? If you're not gaming with the other four monitors, why use a 1060 to drive them. Nearly anything made in the last two years can drive four desktops pretty easily.
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Probably because it runs cooler? He has a 970 and wants something roughly the same or better, that runs cooler.
 
pcgeekesq said:
Regarding me buying an SUS ROG STRIX 1060:

1) It was $329, that $349 was a typo I have now fixed.
2) I wanted it for the lower power dissipation and the ability to drive four of my five monitors. The new card ill sit three slots away from my ROG STRIX GTX 1080.
The GTX 1080 is what drives my 4K G-Sync display for games. And pretty well too.

So point is, I don't care about gaming performance on the GTX 1060. But I'm not aware of any other card that can drive two 1440p displays and two 1080p displays at as low a power dissipation as the GTX 1060 can. My current GTX 970 certainly doesn't.
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Ok for specific reasons I can better understand, but does the STRIX model of the 1060 can only do what you need or can the $250 card do the same?
Since you have a 1080, a sub $200 card is better to push monitors. I had a MSI GTX 960 I bought locally for $140 to push my 4K monitor until I got my current setup.
 
jbc029 said:
?? If you're not gaming with the other four monitors, why use a 1060 to drive them. Nearly anything made in the last two years can drive four desktops pretty easily.
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Like I said, "it will dump a lot less heat into the case." Idle power dissipation on the GTX 1060 is outstanding, I'm not aware of anything other than an iGPU that even comes close.
 
WorldExclusive said:
Ok for specific reasons I can better understand, but does the STRIX model of the 1060 can only do what you need or can the $250 card do the same?
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As I said, the only 1060 availabe at Newegg was the ROG STRIX 1060 OC. And any other available option dumps more heat into the case.
 
Mugato said:
or w/e they call it now? So you don't even know what the new UI is called, and yet it's crap and prevents you from buying a graphics card. Seems legit...
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No it's not fucking legit, I'm obviously just trolling. No way I could be pissed off at how they took a perfectly capable CCC and turned it into a piece of junk that "looks nice". It's either called Crimson or just "Radeon Settings".

FYI I am running an HD 7950 right now, which uses AMD drivers.
 
pcgeekesq said:
Regarding me buying an SUS ROG STRIX 1060:

1) It was $329, that $349 was a typo I have now fixed.
2) I wanted it for the lower power dissipation and the ability to drive four of my five monitors. The new card ill sit three slots away from my ROG STRIX GTX 1080.
The GTX 1080 is what drives my 4K G-Sync display for games. And pretty well too.

So point is, I don't care about gaming performance on the GTX 1060. But I'm not aware of any other card that can drive two 1440p displays and two 1080p displays at as low a power dissipation as the GTX 1060 can. My current GTX 970 certainly doesn't.
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WTF? You bought a card for 329 to drive monitors? Why not wait for 249 for the same purpose? Did you really need a gaming card for that? You don't care about gaming performance yet you paid 70 less than a 980ti for a card just to drive monitors? It would have been better served had you said hey I got the money and I spent it on what I wanted, lol. Thats usually how I do it cuz spending 329 on a ROG strix card to drive monitors and justifying it that way just doesn't make sense.
 
pcgeekesq said:
Regarding me buying an SUS ROG STRIX 1060:

1) It was $329, that $349 was a typo I have now fixed.
2) I wanted it for the lower power dissipation and the ability to drive four of my five monitors. The new card ill sit three slots away from my ROG STRIX GTX 1080.
The GTX 1080 is what drives my 4K G-Sync display for games. And pretty well too.

So point is, I don't care about gaming performance on the GTX 1060. But I'm not aware of any other card that can drive two 1440p displays and two 1080p displays at as low a power dissipation as the GTX 1060 can. My current GTX 970 certainly doesn't.
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Wouldn't this have done that as well?

GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 750Ti 2GB LOW PROFILE OC EDITION-Newegg.com
 
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pcgeekesq said:
As I said, the only 1060 availabe at Newegg was the ROG STRIX 1060 OC. And any other available option dumps more heat into the case.
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the card doesn't dump enough heat to begin with. Just say you spent the money cuz you wanted the card and cuz you can. It's no one else's business but you are just trying to justify this when it makes no sense.
 
"The only thing not sold out on Newegg when I looked was the ASUS ROG STRIX 1060 OC.

So I bought it, at $329"

Lmao....... Someone paid $329 for a gtx 1060!!!
Do your self a favor and cancel your order, you can thank me later.
And then go buy a 980ti new on sale for around $369, or grab a 1070 at $399
Your Welcome
 
NKD said:
WTF? You bought a card for 329 to drive monitors? Why not wait for 249 for the same purpose? Did you really need a gaming card for that? You don't care about gaming performance yet you paid 70 less than a 980ti for a card just to drive monitors? It would have been better served had you said hey I got the money and I spent it on what I wanted, lol. Thats usually how I do it cuz spending 329 on a ROG strix card to drive monitors and justifying it that way just doesn't make sense.
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I also paid for next-day shipping. I'm not some kid siting in his mom's basement. The $80 difference you speak of doesn't mean much to me. But I certainly would have bought a cheaper GTX 1060 if other people has not bought them all first. I didn't get up at 6AM so the OC ROG STRIX was the only choice left.

For my application, the GTX 980 (or the GTX 970 I am currently using to drive those monitors) isn't a good option. Too much heat. Even in my well-ventilated CM Haf XB Evo case, that GTX 970 is adding 15C or so to the idle temps of my GTX 1080, that's one of the reasons I'm doing this.
 
So my predictions yesterday about 1060 inventory levels was way off. I thought they would be sold out on day 1 or day 2. They were actually sold out in less than an hour. Kudos to Nvidia for the extra money they will now milk from the founders edition at $300 bc of no inventory at the "starting at $249" launch announcement.
 
pcgeekesq said:
Like I said, "it will dump a lot less heat into the case." Idle power dissipation on the GTX 1060 is outstanding, I'm not aware of anything other than an iGPU that even comes close.
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True, the 970 uses a massive 8 W more at multi-monitor idle, so one of the most expensive 1060's is a great replacement card.
 
Nobu said:
benchgate, except I would rather people stop with all the -gate nonsense. D:
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Benchghazi? :p

One positive thing I can say about the 1060, I've been spared the buyers remorse I was worried I might have after picking up a 1070 just before the 1060 was announced!
 
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Speaking of benchgate...
You guys do recall the "nvidia 1060 reviewers guide" benchmarks right?
How was it that the 1060 was beating the RX 480 in the Ashes of singularity in the "reviewers guide", but loses in all real world reviews? Did they block the RX 480 exhaust port to cause extreme throttling of the 480?
 
pcgeekesq said:
I also paid for next-day shipping. I'm not some kid siting in his mom's basement. The $80 difference you speak of doesn't mean much to me. But I certainly would have bought a cheaper GTX 1060 if other people has not bought them all first. I didn't get up at 6AM so the OC ROG STRIX was the only choice left.

For my application, the GTX 980 (or the GTX 970 I am currently using to drive those monitors) isn't a good option. Too much heat. Even in my well-ventilated CM Haf XB Evo case, that GTX 970 is adding 15C or so to the idle temps of my GTX 1080, that's one of the reasons I'm doing this.
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exactly leave the first part and cut out the second. First one justifies your purchase and it needs no further justification. Because no one cares what you use it for but when you start explaining it makes less and less sense. Because you can't really justify your purchase but you can spend your money with your wallet whether you care about that money or not is no one else's concern.
 
sleepybp said:
"The only thing not sold out on Newegg when I looked was the ASUS ROG STRIX 1060 OC.

So I bought it, at $329"

Lmao....... Someone paid $329 for a gtx 1060!!!
Do your self a favor and cancel your order, you can thank me later.
And then go buy a 980ti new on sale for around $369, or grab a 1070 at $399
Your Welcome
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How may times do I have to say it: A GTX 1060 was worth that much to me because it will decrease the amount of heat in the case. Even the GTX 970 I already have is not a good solution for me, because of the thermal issues. And that GTX 970 is free.

Stop thinking your spending priorities are all that matters. I am paying to reduce my case temps. People often spend money to do that.

And stop thinking that $329 is a lot of money. It may be to you, but I've spent more than that on a single meal.
 
sleepybp said:
So my predictions yesterday about 1060 inventory levels was way off. I thought they would be sold out on day 1 or day 2. They were actually sold out in less than an hour. Kudos to Nvidia for the extra money they will now milk from the founders edition at $300 bc of no inventory at the "starting at $249" launch announcement.
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how it always goes. Founders edition will be most available, nvidia driving business to their reference design mostly for first 2 months or so. Look at 1080 and 1070. Founders edition models can be found the easiest. Best buy stocks them all the time and nvidia.com has them all the time. It's really targeted in that way. However 1060s might be more available because nvidia might have alot of cut down chips, but we will see about that.
 
480x is the card to get if I were picking out one of these two. More raw performance in Async Compute.
 
$300 for GTX 1060 FE? Is there a reason I should buy this instead of the RX480, because I just don't see it for this segment.
 
pcgeekesq said:
I also paid for next-day shipping. I'm not some kid siting in his mom's basement. The $80 difference you speak of doesn't mean much to me. But I certainly would have bought a cheaper GTX 1060 if other people has not bought them all first. I didn't get up at 6AM so the OC ROG STRIX was the only choice left.

For my application, the GTX 980 (or the GTX 970 I am currently using to drive those monitors) isn't a good option. Too much heat. Even in my well-ventilated CM Haf XB Evo case, that GTX 970 is adding 15C or so to the idle temps of my GTX 1080, that's one of the reasons I'm doing this.
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110 bucks shipped for that 970 and we have a deal. Get rid of that heat monster and help the brother out. My nephew will love it!!! Think about it, its like buying your 1060 for 229? :) Lets do this... awaiting your response, I am serious!
 
I agree on the SLI/Crossfire thing. You should always get the fastest single GPU you can afford.. but it is still nice to know you can add a 2nd card in later on when prices drop should you want to extend the life of your machine a bit.

However that's a non-factor for 98% people I would say. FreeSync to me is a bigger selling point for rx480.
 
"How may times do I have to say it: A GTX 1060 was worth that much to me because it will decrease the amount of heat in the case. Even the GTX 970 I already have is not a good solution for me, because of the thermal issues. And that GTX 970 is free.

Stop thinking your spending priorities are all that matters. I am paying to reduce my case temps. People often spend money to do that.

And stop thinking that $329 is a lot of money. It may be to you, but I've spent more than that on a single meal."

Yes, I see that you are in a very unique situation with priority on temperature. Like others said you can spend your money how you like it. It's just a shock to me that one wouldn't spend $70 more to get a 1070 which has very similar temps/power for so much more performance.

Also I agree $329 isn't a lot of money. since we are into bragging now, I have more money in my checking/savings than most people do in their 401ks.... How much money one has is irrelevant in my opinon, every purchase should be made based upon its value not your bank account
 
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