The GeForce GTX 1060 Founders Edition & ASUS Strix GTX 1060 Review
by Ryan Smith on August 5, 2016 2:00 PM ESTDiRT Rally
For the racing game in our benchmark suite we have Codemasters’ DiRT Rally. Codemasters continues to set the bar for graphical fidelity in racing games, delivering realistic looking environments with layered with additional graphical effects. Based on their in-house EGO engine, DiRT Rally includes a number of DirectCompute based compute shader effects, and while it’s not the most punishing game in our suite, it still takes a very good card to sustain the 60fps frame rate that driving games are best played at.
DiRT Rally is another strong showing for the GTX 1060. This time even the stock clocked card edges out GTX 980, and ASUS’s factory overclocked card adds on another 10% at 1440p. This also becomes one of the few games where GTX 1060 is plenty fast for 1440p with everything turned up, as it has no problem holding over 60fps in this game.
As for the generational comparisons, GTX 1060 remains ahead of the curve for Pascal cards. Relative to GTX 960, it offers 77% better performance. Though the gap between it and GTX 1070 is also a bit larger, with GTX 1060 offering 74% of its faster sibling’s performance. Finally, against the RX 480, GTX 1060 bests its AMD competitor by 14%.
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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...