Nvidia GTX 1060 Review - RX 480 Killer?
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2017-05-06
·
1,029 words · ~5 min read
0:00
the NVIDIA GTX 1060 may just be the new
0:03
Mass consumer Workhorse card that replaces the 970 in terms of steam
0:07
survey crushing sales why price when the
0:11
GTX 970 launched an EVGA superclocked Edition was about
0:15
350 you might expect that evj 1070 and
0:19
everyone else's for that matter would be about the same price nope it's about
0:24
$440 a$1 100ish increase in price
0:28
similarly a GTX 960 was about $210 but the fancy new 1060 ranges from
0:35
250 to 300 and I expect the non- crappy
0:39
plastic ones to start at 280 or 290 is
0:42
it worth the price increase can it live up to the hype let's find
0:54
out Mass drop is featuring The fostex th
0:57
x00 headphones with new ebony colored
1:00
year cups check them and other drops out
1:03
at the link in the video description so yes the GTX 1060 is here
1:09
and with it comes a fancy new Pascal GPU named
1:13
gp106 a step down from the GP 104 sporting GTX 1080 and 1070s but still
1:19
with a lot of the goodies and performance improvements which come with
1:22
being on the Pascal platform at all the biggest story here however is how it
1:26
will fare against AMD's offering the rx4
1:29
480 this is the first time there has been a pascal GPU launched since the 480
1:35
was released so that makes it interesting first though specs the 1060
1:40
features 1,280 Cuda cor a boost clock of
1:44
178 MHz 6 gigs of gddr5 V RAM which is
1:49
clocked at 8 gab bit per second and an overall memory bandwidth of2 gbt per
1:55
second and all of that is wrapped up in a TDP package of only 120 watts we'll
2:01
see how all of this translates to Performance later on next let's have a
2:04
look at the allnew cooler design it's clearly related design-wise to the
2:09
cooler found on the founders edition of the 1070 and 1080 but has some core
2:13
differences like no back plate an NVIDIA logo that doesn't light up a physical
2:18
extension beyond the PCB to house the fan a slightly relaxed angularity design
2:23
and no window to look into the heat sink fans for the diecast aluminum body also
2:28
contains two coer heat pipes embedded into the base of an aluminum heat sink
2:33
but what this card doesn't have to much surprise is an SLI connector Now
2:39
NVIDIA's official statement on this more or less is that if you want more
2:42
performance you should just buy a 1070 or 1080 instead of two 1060s cting that
2:48
they would rather Focus their support on SLI setups for those cards instead that
2:53
being said you will still be able to use multiple 1060s together in certain games
2:59
if those games are able to take advantage of MDA or LDA explicit modes
3:04
in direct X12 I'd highly suggest checking out my video on the confusing
3:08
state of SLI and multiple GPU setups raw
3:12
performance-wise it walked all over the rx480 in every title except for Hitman
3:17
which admittedly is a pretty AMD tuned title it won in Crisis 3 Star Wars
3:21
Battlefront and Tomb Raider all at 1440p with very high settings enabled by 7 8
3:26
and 10 FPS respectively then in Hitman it lost at those same settings by about
3:31
4 FPS then to layer on top of that the story was rather similar at 4K with
3:36
medium settings but this isn't the whole story and AMD fans before you rush down
3:41
to the comments and start screaming at me for being what is kind of a shill at
3:47
this point we must recognize that the 1060 is 25 to 50% more expensive than
3:53
the rx480 and that's where the conversation changes in the dollars per
3:57
frame race the rx480 wins every single time sometimes by rather
4:03
narrow margins other than the massive Gap in Hitman but it still wins does
4:08
that mean the 1060 is a bad card and AMD wins no but to be clear that totally
4:13
doesn't mean AMD lost either that's not what I'm saying the price and
4:16
performance Deltas on these cards are significant enough that I don't even
4:20
fully agree with them being in the same category sure if you buy the most
4:26
expensive rx480 and the cheapest 10 60
4:30
they more or less equate in price but that's a rather odd competition I'm
4:35
happy with the 1060 and I'm very happy with the 480 it's a good time to be a PC
4:40
Gamer that's basically all I have to say and it's a good time to be a mobile app
4:45
developer looking for a simple payment solution all you got to do is check out
4:49
the brain tree v.0 SDK which is one
4:52
small snippet of code and you can be all set up in less than 10 minutes they even
4:57
have support staff ready to walk you through the process ACC over the phone
5:01
if you need them their code supports Android iOS and JavaScript clients and
5:06
they have sdks in seven programming languages this makes it easy to offer
5:10
multiple Mobile payment types including PayPal Apple pay Bitcoin venmo Android
5:16
pay cards and more all with that quick
5:19
simple single integration to learn more and for your first
5:24
$50,000 in transactions fee free go to
5:27
brain Tre payments.com lonus thanks for watching guys like it
5:32
if you liked it dislike if you disliked it get subscribed if you want to see
5:35
more graphics card videos these things are going crazy lately cuz everyone's
5:38
releasing all these different models and stuff and I'm going to check basically
5:42
all of them out so hopefully you like graphics card videos uh don't forget to
5:46
check out Amazon if you want to buy a 1060 check out the Forum if you want to
5:50
discuss a 1060 check the link in the video description down below if you want
5:53
to buy a cool shirt and uh check out this video for our 1070 superclocked
5:57
review