{"video_id":"mF4S5ZaXdgE","title":"Nvidia GTX 1060 Review - RX 480 Killer?","channel":"Linus Tech Tips","show":"Linus Tech Tips","published_at":"2017-05-06T14:53:29Z","duration_s":360,"segments":[{"start_s":0.08,"end_s":5.0,"text":"the NVIDIA GTX 1060 may just be the new","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":3.12,"end_s":11.679,"text":"Mass consumer Workhorse card that replaces the 970 in terms of steam","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":7.56,"end_s":14.2,"text":"survey crushing sales why price when the","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":11.679,"end_s":19.24,"text":"GTX 970 launched an EVGA superclocked Edition was about","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":15.76,"end_s":21.68,"text":"350 you might expect that evj 1070 and","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":19.24,"end_s":28.72,"text":"everyone else's for that matter would be about the same price nope it's about","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":24.519,"end_s":31.719,"text":"$440 a$1 100ish 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you want to","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":350.199,"end_s":355.6,"text":"discuss a 1060 check the link in the video description down below if you want","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":353.319,"end_s":360.919,"text":"to buy a cool shirt and uh check out this video for our 1070 superclocked","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":357.919,"end_s":360.919,"text":"review","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0}],"full_text":"the NVIDIA GTX 1060 may just be the new Mass consumer Workhorse card that replaces the 970 in terms of steam survey crushing sales why price when the GTX 970 launched an EVGA superclocked Edition was about 350 you might expect that evj 1070 and everyone else's for that matter would be about the same price nope it's about $440 a$1 100ish increase in price similarly a GTX 960 was about $210 but the fancy new 1060 ranges from 250 to 300 and I expect the non- crappy plastic ones to start at 280 or 290 is it worth the price increase can it live up to the hype let's find out Mass drop is featuring The fostex th x00 headphones with new ebony colored year cups check them and other drops out at the link in the video description so yes the GTX 1060 is here and with it comes a fancy new Pascal GPU named gp106 a step down from the GP 104 sporting GTX 1080 and 1070s but still with a lot of the goodies and performance improvements which come with being on the Pascal platform at all the biggest story here however is how it will fare against AMD's offering the rx4 480 this is the first time there has been a pascal GPU launched since the 480 was released so that makes it interesting first though specs the 1060 features 1,280 Cuda cor a boost clock of 178 MHz 6 gigs of gddr5 V RAM which is clocked at 8 gab bit per second and an overall memory bandwidth of2 gbt per second and all of that is wrapped up in a TDP package of only 120 watts we'll see how all of this translates to Performance later on next let's have a look at the allnew cooler design it's clearly related design-wise to the cooler found on the founders edition of the 1070 and 1080 but has some core differences like no back plate an NVIDIA logo that doesn't light up a physical extension beyond the PCB to house the fan a slightly relaxed angularity design and no window to look into the heat sink fans for the diecast aluminum body also contains two coer heat pipes embedded into the base of an aluminum heat sink but what this card doesn't have to much surprise is an SLI connector Now NVIDIA's official statement on this more or less is that if you want more performance you should just buy a 1070 or 1080 instead of two 1060s cting that they would rather Focus their support on SLI setups for those cards instead that being said you will still be able to use multiple 1060s together in certain games if those games are able to take advantage of MDA or LDA explicit modes in direct X12 I'd highly suggest checking out my video on the confusing state of SLI and multiple GPU setups raw performance-wise it walked all over the rx480 in every title except for Hitman which admittedly is a pretty AMD tuned title it won in Crisis 3 Star Wars Battlefront and Tomb Raider all at 1440p with very high settings enabled by 7 8 and 10 FPS respectively then in Hitman it lost at those same settings by about 4 FPS then to layer on top of that the story was rather similar at 4K with medium settings but this isn't the whole story and AMD fans before you rush down to the comments and start screaming at me for being what is kind of a shill at this point we must recognize that the 1060 is 25 to 50% more expensive than the rx480 and that's where the conversation changes in the dollars per frame race the rx480 wins every single time sometimes by rather narrow margins other than the massive Gap in Hitman but it still wins does that mean the 1060 is a bad card and AMD wins no but to be clear that totally doesn't mean AMD lost either that's not what I'm saying the price and performance Deltas on these cards are significant enough that I don't even fully agree with them being in the same category sure if you buy the most expensive rx480 and the cheapest 10 60 they more or less equate in price but that's a rather odd competition I'm happy with the 1060 and I'm very happy with the 480 it's a good time to be a PC Gamer that's basically all I have to say and it's a good time to be a mobile app developer looking for a simple payment solution all you got to do is check out the brain tree v.0 SDK which is one small snippet of code and you can be all set up in less than 10 minutes they even have support staff ready to walk you through the process ACC over the phone if you need them their code supports Android iOS and JavaScript clients and they have sdks in seven programming languages this makes it easy to offer multiple Mobile payment types including PayPal Apple pay Bitcoin venmo Android pay cards and more all with that quick simple single integration to learn more and for your first $50,000 in transactions fee free go to brain Tre payments.com lonus thanks for watching guys like it if you liked it dislike if you disliked it get subscribed if you want to see more graphics card videos these things are going crazy lately cuz everyone's releasing all these different models and stuff and I'm going to check basically all of them out so hopefully you like graphics card videos uh don't forget to check out Amazon if you want to buy a 1060 check out the Forum if you want to discuss a 1060 check the link in the video description down below if you want to buy a cool shirt and uh check out this video for our 1070 superclocked review"}