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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osxandwindows - Friday, August 5, 2016 - link
Finally!.A timely review from anandtech.
osxandwindows - Friday, August 5, 2016 - link
Now, where is the HTC10 review, the new titan, and the note 7?Ryan Smith - Friday, August 5, 2016 - link
HTC 10: In progress (Josh is nearly done)Titan X Pascal: We weren't sampled
Note7: No comment
ddriver - Friday, August 5, 2016 - link
"Titan X Pascal: We weren't sampled"What do you expect? They send units to be reviewed for publicity, which requires the unit be reviewed immediately after it is received, and the review published the moment NDA expires. But if it takes you months after the official release to review stuff - why bother sending you samples? Keep on sloth gear and you might end up having to purchase all the hardware you want to review...
ddriver - Friday, August 5, 2016 - link
And please don't go with the "but we go in depth" stuff - there is nothing preventing you from publishing detailed stuff later on. Because otherwise you are implying some absurdity like "we're too good for timely reviews" which is plain out silly.zepi - Friday, August 5, 2016 - link
I'm happy to read average results from techpowerup, guru3d on whatever random site I happen to find my way to.I come to Anandtech to find out WHY the cards perform the way they do, not to answer the question of HOW they perform.
ddriver - Friday, August 5, 2016 - link
Sure, because it is all about you happiness...mmrezaie - Friday, August 5, 2016 - link
Well mine too. I do not care about others shallow reviews. I like how Anandtech goes deep about these reviews. Maybe it is a niche portion of visitors, but AT is being famous because of these reviews.Fnnoobee - Friday, August 5, 2016 - link
Deep in reviews? They're not even doing they're test on the latest AMD Crimson drivers, 16.7.3, or even 16.7.2, which released almost a month ago. Yeah, real deep testing there. /smkaibear - Friday, August 5, 2016 - link
Ah, the irony of ddriver complaining that anandtech doesn't make him happy, then telling zepi off for pointing out anandtech makes him happy...