While Nvidia is marketing the GeForce GTX 1060 as a capable graphics card to run 1080p games maxed out, it can also handle many 1440p games well. According to my numbers, the $300 graphics card runs 1.6 percent faster than the GTX 980--which is a card that you’ll still find online for roughly $100 more. While it isn’t always faster than the GTX 980, my tests do validate Nvidia’s assertions that the two cards are generally comparable. Nvidia also claims that the GTX 1060 is 15 percent faster than AMD’s Radeon RX 480 on average. When I worked out the math, that was actually the exact number I came up. While the GTX 1060 is definitively faster, the $240 8GB RX 480 is 25 percent cheaper than the Founders Edition GTX 1060, so AMD’s card is still the better value. Compared to its next closest sibling, the GTX 1070, the 1060 is 23.1 percent slower on average, but it’s also 33 percent cheaper. This makes it a great deal in its own right.
HardOCP has their review up as well. Looks like 480 wins at DX12/Vulkan stuff, and the 1060 wins at DX11/10/9 stuff. (which shouldn't be any real surprise)
It is clear, crystal clear, that AMD Radeon RX 480 simply performs better under the new Vulkan API and some DX12 API in games so far. In DOOM the AMD Radeon RX 480 wiped the floor with the GeForce GTX 1060 running the Vulkan API. This is not to say GeForce GTX 1060 did not have an enjoyable gameplay experience, it surely did. We were able to play the game maxed out at 1080p and at "Ultra" settings at 1440p with the highest AA setting. This is nothing to laugh at, it's an amazing experience. When you look at the raw performance though, AMD Radeon RX 480 just mops up the competition with the Vulkan API in DOOM. This lead continues in Hitmanunder DX12. GeForce GTX 1060 does allow a great gaming experience no question about it. We were able to run at the highest settings at 1080p and nearly the highest settings at 1440p. However, AMD Radeon RX 480 just simply outperforms it under DX12. We didn't see much difference in Rise of the Tomb Raider either in DX12 or DX11. In that game, both video cards allowed the same gameplay experience and performance. They really were neck and neck. In The Witcher 3 the GeForce GTX 1060 had a performance advantage. By this trend it seems DX11 games will share similar performance between the video cards (depending on the game) but DX12 may favor Radeon RX 480, especially where Async Compute is concerned. We may in fact need a larger game sample size to really see how the two line up in DX11 games.
Otherwise, yeah, it's pretty darn close to a 980:
NVIDIA was quite clear that it expected to position GeForce GTX 1060 has a video card that could perform the same as, or better than, a GeForce GTX 980 for a lesser price and lower power. This claim was made in our briefing, and in all press materials. We therefore specifically included a GeForce GTX 980 in our testing today to find out if this was true or not. The result is mixed. There are some games where performance between GeForce GTX 1060 and GeForce GTX 980 are close. There are also situations and games where they are apart in terms of performance. We never once saw the GeForce GTX 1060 perform faster than the GeForce GTX 980. At its best, the GeForce GTX 1060 provided the same gameplay experience as a GeForce GTX 980, but never "better." There were many situations where the GeForce GTX 980 outperformed the GeForce GTX 1060. It mostly happened at higher resolutions and game settings like 1440p. This makes sense based on the specifications. The GeForce GTX 980 has more ROPs, more texture units, and more memory bandwidth than the GeForce GTX 1060. All of these things help at higher resolutions. The GeForce GTX 1060 has a couple of advantages, like more VRAM at 6GB and higher clock speeds and potentially better memory compression. These things only help balance out the GeForce GTX 1060's performance in comparison to GeForce GTX 980. Greater VRAM may help in future games, but it is yet to be seen. DX12 performance did not seem to differ between the two video cards in Rise of the Tomb Raider so it is yet to be seen if Pascal offers better DX12 performance. At this point, NVIDIA's claims may be a bit on the exaggerated side. It will be interesting to see how an overclocked GeForce GTX 1060 compares to overclocked GeForce GTX 980 on custom cards.
About what was expected. 10~15% faster than the RX 480 and lower power consumption, but completely trashed in DX12 and Vulkan. Not much point of this card at $50 more than the RX 480. Both cards net you playable frame rates in any DX11 title, while the RX 480 will perform better in future titles.
Fantastic cards, completely obsoleted
the Fury range - the 1060 is faster, cheaper, has 2GB more VRAM,
consumes half the power, quieter, to name a few of it's advantages.
I bet OCUK are laughing at all the suckers who bought 4GB Fury's in the last week offers that popped up."
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I guess consumers don't agree with you, I've had to put an order in for
more Fury today with Sapphire because the sales exploded when reviews
came out.
If it was my personal money I'd take £299 Fury over a £299 1060 and it
seems many customers today made that exact same decision.
Today has being a huge success, 100's of 1060's sold, RX-480 sales
boosted, Fury deal sales exploded, RX 480 Nitro absolutely exploded and
1070 sales also rocketed.
well, mindfactory added 2 more SKUs today, though prices are ridiculous. Only normal price is that Palit Dual at 250 pounds (same that mindfactory only had yeasterday)
rest are 280-320 pounds, that translates to 309-359$ MSRP
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Or maybe I'm not really that surprised after all.
http://www.gamespot.com/articles/nvidia-geforce-gtx-1060-review/1100-6441925/
Otherwise, yeah, it's pretty darn close to a 980:
*edit* didn't last long - sold out across the board within minutes.
(and befor yo call this guy fanboy he got 1080 on launch morning from Microcenter and coulnt get 1060 because - there werent any in stock)
very very few were atucally in stock
http://www.nowinstock.net/computers/videocards/nvidia/gtx1060/
(if theres no date beside the card it wasnt in stock at all at any point yet)
https://www.computerbase.de/2016-07/geforce-gtx-1060-test/3/
techpowerup says 6-7% faster than 480
https://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/NVIDIA/GeForce_GTX_1060/26.html
hardwareunboxed says 12% faster than 480
http://www.hardwareunboxed.com/nvidia-geforce-gtx-1060-benchmark-review-25-games-tested/
http://www.mindfactory.de
http://www.comptoir-hardware.com/articles/cartes-graphiques/32008-test-geforce-gtx-1060.html?start=15
https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showpost.php?p=29803290&postcount=1333
I bet OCUK are laughing at all the suckers who bought 4GB Fury's in the last week offers that popped up."
I guess consumers don't agree with you, I've had to put an order in for more Fury today with Sapphire because the sales exploded when reviews came out.
If it was my personal money I'd take £299 Fury over a £299 1060 and it seems many customers today made that exact same decision.
Today has being a huge success, 100's of 1060's sold, RX-480 sales boosted, Fury deal sales exploded, RX 480 Nitro absolutely exploded and 1070 sales also rocketed.
RX480 4GB is defnitely card of choice for this segment.
They are an NVidia partner supplier though (as well as being a major supplier).
rest are 280-320 pounds, that translates to 309-359$ MSRP
for 380 pounds you can buy 1070 lol