Having switched from a 1060 6gb to a 3060Ti, I understand what you're saying. Runs like a jet plane and struggles with 1440p in certain games and settings, not worthy of its asking price (got a used one)
The 1060 was a good value, it had performance similar to the 980 for obviously much less, and with a very reasonably 6gb for the performance, the 1060 was a very solid mid range GPU with an actual mid range pricepoint, its not holding up these days, but thats to be expected for a mid range 2016 card
Lets be fair if you arent able to play the latest and greatest you arent really missing out on much these days. If you are rocking one of these and having a blast playing indie games then you are the real heroes of the gaming community atm.
Adapting to the hardware you have rather than adapting hardware to the latest software IS the way things should be for the majority of people. JayzTwoCents has a video on why the entire "BUT IT DOESNT RUN 4K60" and "THE BOTTLENECK" toxic mentality that borderline gatekeeps people away from gaming. Nothing less than peak seems acceptable. Sadly, this video (and the comments here) are not going to reach those preachers' ears because even mentioning an older GPU would make them gag and puke (they are already vomiting over the 4090 not being able to run games at 4K@400fps and claiming the current GPU industry is shit because software outran hardware by over a year).
@@NothingXemnas I really agree with everything you said except one thing that is i really think that current gpu industry is shit for a lot of reasons but you know it's only my opinion and i will still use modern GPUs when i need them wether i like the way the industry is going or not
@@NothingXemnas Well yes ofc u want the best, as long as its affordable. I have a GTX 980Ti which is a pretty weak card in the modern era but atleast it gives me insane performance for the money (140$ USD, bought 2 years ago). Now I could afford getting a 3070 or a 3080 by now but I dont need that yet bcs I dont have a 1440p monitor. But yeah again as long as u can afford it the absolute best is what u want. My next GPU HAS to be capable of 1440p@144Hz Ultra settings or its a waste of money.
true but i dont like medieval fantasy games i want sci fi so to me starfield is my dream game, i just want to play that, maybe ill wait a few years for the game to be patched and modded into something good.
@@blue-lu3iz the problem with the 1060 3gb was it wasn't just a reduction in vram, it also had less CUDA cores, so even in games where the less vram didn't matter, it performed worse. and of course if you bought a 3gb 1060 back then, now youd be looking at all the way up to 34% less performance at 1080p these days compared to a 6gb.
RE4's crashing was actually linked to Ray Tracing. If you exceeded the VRAM limit with RT on, it would crash but surprisingly with RT off you can go well into the red and the game would run generally fine without crashing, just massive performance dips sometimes.
Ray Tracing is one of the biggest gimmicks in modern video games besides VR. I always find it hilarious that games from years and years ago can get lighting down perfectly without RT and look better than games that have RT. RT is nothing more than a performance downgrade and for lazy devs to not give their games proper lighting.
Choosing to take the same upgrade path so I have a question - Did you have to upgrade your CPU? Chances are you probably had paired your 6 gig 1060 with a contemporary CPU from its time. And if you're using a CPU a couple or 3 generations older, are there any noticeable bottlenecks in your experience with the 6700 xt now?
@@indorilneravar4470 I was using an i5 4670k up until about 2 years ago when I came across a great deal for a ryzen 7 5700x and mobo combo so can't really help with that. All I do know is that as long as the cpu is "good enough" will be fine for gaming. Where that border is I don't know. Also the r5 5600x is looking like a really good deal nowadays
I did the same thing. Ran a 1060 6gb paired with a i7-6700k until last year when I built a new system. The 1060 took everything I threw at it. It wasn't a monster of a card, but it was a stable workhorse (still is, the person I sold it to still uses it to game).
I'm currently rocking the P106-100 also from EVGA, basically the GTX 1060 6GB that's made exclusively for miners because it has no video output ports. Performance is somewhere in between the 3GB and 6GB variants to be honest but I paid 20 dollars for it and it's possibly the best deal I've made for my humble PC, especially considering I only play older games and had been gaming with Intel HD prior to this.
@@harrymichaels3877 yep, my cpu is an i5-4590, the hdmi is hooked up to the mobo. The only way to get a display output from this kind of card is to use the iGPU, the performance of the card mostly comes from modded drivers however. LTT has a video of this card, it's a bit outdated but it explains most of the pros and cons of it pretty well still
holy shit 20 dollars for a gaming gpu for low 1080p gaming in 2023 sounds like a dream lmao. Nice steal. How long you been using it i've seen the video LTT made about it and it was interesting in term of power consumption, heat, and stability
@@akmalrusydi2730 bought it in April and hasn't encountered an issue so far, very happy with this thing. Temperatures weren't ideal but after a repasting it stayed cool, only going above 60 degrees celsius for the most demanding games in my collection.
As for why the GTX 1060 underperforms the 1650 in Warzone we can actually look to the architecture. Turing is a compute oriented architecture with hardware scheduling. It’s why in certain scenarios Turing can drastically outperform Pascal. Ampere similarly gears the architecture more towards compute workloads than graphics, while Lovelace is to Ampere as Pascal was to Maxwell.
Turing doesn't outperform Pascal just sometimes, it outperforms it all the time. I upgraded a system from a GTX 1080 to a RTX 2060 Super, and it's a night and day difference. You're using a crippled version of Turing, in GTX 16, and the vanilla 1650, is the worst of the bunch, so it's not representative of the real power of the architecture.
@@gamewizard1760ompare a GTX 1080Ti to an RTX 2060 and tell me which is faster. Also, the 16 series is undeniably Turing. It just loses RT and Tensor cores, but those Tensor cores are replaced with FP16 units. This means 16 series just loses RTX and DLSS support, and you weren’t running RTX on some of the RTX GPUs anyways. Turing GPUs were launched to hit a specific performance tier, and can sometimes punch well above that weight with its architectural advantage over Pascal. The 1660Ti is supposed to be a 1070 competitor, but in certain cases can hit a 1080 due to this.
@@dex6316 Heavy INT/Async Compute can turn Turing into an absolute monster in the right circumstance. Doom Eternal downright sees the 2080 Ti as nearly 1.7x faster, with even the meager 2060 Super matching the 1080 Ti in raster.
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You're going to get big, man. No doubt. Your videos have been high-quality from the start with a unique take on things as well as unique content, which is rare in the tech community. Keep it up.
The 6GB 1060 aged much like Intel's Sandy Bridge CPUs (specifically the 2600K in my case) -- both continued to take whatever you threw at them with unprecedented ease. But alas, it seems it's finally time to let the old Pascal midranger go out to pasture now in 2023...at least it can rest easy knowing it was one of the best cards you could get for the money, aside from something like the RX 580 8GB model anyway. Which, coincidentally, was the choice I went with. I still miss that card, as well as my i7-2600K that was paired with it prior to upgrading to AM4 with a R5 2600. Even from 2020-2022, that 580 was an absolute powerhouse for the $100 I spent on it. I've commented many times by this point, but I'm now rocking a R5 5600 (w/ custom PBO for identical 5600x clock speeds) and a OC model of the RTX 3060 Ti (which I got for a sweet $60 less than MSRP all said and done). Despite the "8GB VRAM" controversy running rampant across the community lately, I'm more than content with my setup and I'm sure it'll be more than adequate for 1080p native/1440p DLSS high refresh gaming for another few years to come.
Funny you should bring that up. I just upgraded my GPU to an RX 5600XT but my Sandy Bridge Xeon is still going strong and should be fine for awhile until something like AVX 2 becomes mandatory to boot a game.
I remember thinking about the 3GB model back in the day, but I went for an used 780 Ti as I got it with a good price. 1060 6GB was probably the best mid-range Nvidia GPU they've ever put out.
i just got a 1060 ti and im just happy that i can now play games from 2015 to 2020 since those eras is where most of the games i wanted to play for years now are in
Still have a 1060 in my media pc. I really haven't had a reason to upgrade. I also still have a 1070 in my main pc which is still overkill for anything I play.
Man. The performance of this old card still is impressive. I've put this card in several low end pc builds, and the fact that you can still play the latest titles with this is just fantastic. Some games can be played at 720p native which brings the FPS up to acceptable and takes away the softness of the picture. I know everyone wants bigger and better, but the fact that less fortunate kids still can play the latest games is somewhat of a wonder to me. Cheers.
The GTX 1060 6 is still a great performing card when you don't factor "New", triple A latest titles. (Got the fancy Rog Strix OC version) Thanks for the review!
New modern AAA titles at max settings 1080p though, it can still play them easily at medium and there aren't that many AAA games that will push it anyway.
Oh, how time flies. When I was getting in the PC gaming world in 2018, I wanted to get this instead of 580. But the AMD one was cheaper at least from where I am. Can't believe it's been 5 years already.
Good video. The gtx 1060 6gb was a mid-range card from 2016. I bought one new at launch, it was a BIG upgrade from my gtx 660 3gb oem card. It was the card where I went to full 1080p gaming from 720p. It could compete with the previous generation's gtx 980 and it had more vram. 1080p gaming was a lot more mainstream in 2016 than it is now. A great card for it's time. But time moves on.
That was my first GPU i bought with my own money in 2016, i always remembered my first real 'gamer' PC, an i5 7500 and GTX 1060, Now im rocking with a 4070 and ryzen 5 5600x but i still remember my old PC with nostalgia
As a 1060 owner myself, I say long live the king. Sure, the 1650 may technically be more popular now, but OGs remember the 1060. And as this video shows, the 1060 still has a little fight left in it. What this video lacks, however, is context. Will the 1060 still make sense in a world where AMD Phoenix APUs perform just as well? i.e. The 1060 will be better than nothing... but not necessarily even better than an igpu.
I just got myself a GTX 1080 Ti, this old beast really makes a difference to my previous GTX 1080 (both EVGA FTW, the Ti a FTW3). Even in overprice-Germany you can get these now for 200 bucks, the 1080 a little above 100, which I consider quite a bargain.
I have a 1060 3gb and can still run cyberpunk at the low preset at 70-80 FPS. Removing the shroud and a custom fan curve plus overclocking it still works well in modern titles. I even stream games like cs2 on twitch with 170 fps.
I was a 1060 6GB owner for six years until March this year, when it started to fail on me. It was an excellent card that kept PC gamers like me going in the era of the crypto boom and shortages.
Great productions! Just found your channel yesterday. Subbed! My 11 year old son's gaming PC is rocking a 1070 Ti and he is having a blast playing his older titles maxed out at 2560x1080 75Hz G-Sync on a 34" monitor (B450 5950X 32GB DDR4 3200). Our main gaming PC lives in the living room (B650E 7800X3D 32GB DDR5 6000 4090) on a 65" 120Hz VRR G-Sync 4K TV. We have a lot of fun playing modern games together. We hardly touch our PS5. But our Xbox Series X still gets a lot of love, especially by my son.
Just did move up to a 3060 12gb. Had the 1060 6gb since it was introduced. It was still perfectly capable of playing most games at 1080p mixed medium/high settings. I simply wanted to play some things at higher resolutions.
People go overboard with talking how a GPU won't last or how its not good anymore when thats complete bs, when the 1060 6gb came out there were almost as heavy games are as there are now and it still does a great job just not at the highest settings at 1080p. Hell, even a 1050ti can play any modern games 1080p just on low or lowest settings. People talk as if its not the highest settings and with plenty more than 60fps the card is dead and not a AAA card anymore.
the 3GB version carried me all the way to 2023. it kinda feels bad to leave it behind, but it could just barely run RE4 remake, so I decided l it was finally the time to upgrade.
Hopefully you resold to a user in need or kept it in a little box for all the hard work! Ol reliable right there, I own one too, it currently lives with a friend who had no PC.
I bought GTX 1060 6GB week after release and after looking at prices right now I think it will serve me 2 years more. It still holds up pretty well. I'm not really into new games, training AI also is acceptable so I will wait for RTX 5000 series.
I will say, if you can find a good used deal on a 30 series or RX 6000 series card, it can well be worth it, but new, they are still priced too high in my opinion.
1060 User here ! It’s still a great card even for last games if you are targeting 30fps Being a PS5 and Series S user first, i still play a lot of games on my 1060 (RE4 recently)
I loved my 1060 3gb, people hating on it I never understood why, but its good since I bought it in 2018 for 80$ and sold it 1 year later for 100$. That little thing was 25% faster than a 1050ti.
I knew it was my old gtx 1060 6gb from evga. She served me well and for its age is stil a very capable gpu i only upgraded mine couse i got a usud rtx 2060 for 137$ shiped to my door i couldnt resist but i stil have my gtx 1060 stored in the box just in case.
People in 1st world countries call 30fps unplayable yet in 3rd world countries anything above 20fps is playable and anything above 26fps is buttery smooth
I think it has become the go-to card for Esports since it can still hit 144fps+ in games like Fortnite, Rocket League, CSGO and Valorant, especially at low settings. Still runs GTA5 on high settings as well. For kids or people that play low end games, it's still very usable in 2023. I don't think we will really see it fall off for a few more years in that market. In Fortnite you will need to run performance mode to hit those numbers though.
I passed the 1060 6 GB from 2017 to my PC nephew in 2023 and it still a beast @768p60 on many newer games at medium, from atrocious last of us, Spiderman Remastered, Uncharted 4, God of War,etc
You should consider putting up a spreadsheet comparing this card to the 1650, on games that can be directly compared. I'd like to see an average vs the 1650, 1660, and the APUs that are common now.
This graphic card is a legend, I have used it since 2020 before the lock-down Covid alert and still good till now. In 2021 my country has been locked-down and no one can buy food or other things directly. In addition, the coin's price is rising very fast along with graphic card's price. People focus their income on the food and cannot buy these graphic card (Except for the coin miner). This graphic card has save me that from getting borred that whole long time, a legend.
I have a GTX 1060 6GB that I bought right when the 1600-series came out (if i remember correctly), crazy that it has been 7 years. I’m very happy with mine, it has served me well.
Does anyone think that these older cards might be more better off with like a worse monitor to game on? Like I think these kinds of cards would slay at 720p and 1024x768 and stuff like that
Of course it will perform waaay better. But the problem is the monitor. Those low res monitors is horrible. TN panel with shitty response times, poor brightness and contrast, weird color, tearing and ghosting all over the place.
@@enderlore1337square monitors are not that convenient honestly, i'd go with 1366x768 - there're a lot of monitors this resolution, and it has pretty much the same pixel count as 1280x1024
Crazy how demanding these new games are, I just started playling Red Dead Redemption 2 on my 8G RX 480 on Medium / High on 1440p, and it looks and runs better than these unoptimised new games
I hate the fact that most newer titles are demanding just for the sake of being demanding lol and the funny thing is that they’re almost no better than rdr2. One example is that mess of a game cyberpunk which even as to this day, made me appreciate the quality rockstar has put on their open world titles. Like how did we went from witcher 3 to that game anyway?
I’ve told this story many times in the comments of your videos already, but what’s one more on the 1060 itself? This card, coincidentally, the _exact same_ EVGA card you’re using, was the one a friend of mine gave me to get me off of my Radeon RX 460 in the middle of the scalper pandemic. It was the most powerful GPU I’d ever used at that point. It truly changed the way all my games performed, even if they all ran decently already on my RX 460, I could crank the settings on what I was playing. But another friend desperately needed an upgrade more than I did. Core i7 860, 8 GB DDR3 1886, GTX 460, 500 GB SSD 😬. So, since I got a new CPU, the Ryzen 7 5700X on launch, my R5 3600 was now available for whoever needed or wanted it. I bought my friend a new B550 motherboard for Christmas, gave him half of my RAM, reused his SSD, my R5 3600, and the GTX 1060 that the other friend gave to me. I passed the torch, and he still uses it from time to time now to run his older early 2010s games for the time being. I actually wish I’d had a little more time with it to appreciate it and test it myself. I’d finally gotten to experience the legendary 10 series, Pascal, the number one card on Steam (at least back then) the 1060. Thankfully, the same friend who gave me the 1060 in the first place got me an RX 6600 for my birthday the following year, as I’d popped in my ancient R7 250 just so I’d have any display at all and could browse the web, I definitely wasn’t playing games unless it was Minecraft lol. This card, along with the glorious 1080 Ti, have cemented themselves along with the 10 series as a whole as legendary, and there will never be another like them.
I used to run a Gainward 1070, swapped its cooling system for an aftermarket one after one of the fans failed. Got an RX6800 to replace it in 2020, but put the old 1070 into a new low spec PC and gave it away to a friend as a gift, and it's still in use today. That aftermarket cooling gave it a huge new lifespan. 😅
I'm I the only one here who has severe shimmering on last of us with fsr. But it's gone when I turn it off. It really sucks. I see people upload their footage on TH-cam and it's no way near as bad as mine.
im still using mine.. i only upgrade motherboard and CPU from i5 7400 to i5 12400.. games that i mostly played (apex legends, gta v) feels so smooth after.
Today I thought on upgrading my PC. But when I googled gtx 1060, I saw videos like yours. And now I become more attached and I might wait a few more months until I replace my trusty GPU. I still can play any game I want to play on it. Elden Ring is running just fine (when nothing else is open) and I can at least render without having a breakdown in After Effects. I wish to find someone who could give me the best advice for my future setup. Cause I fear I have to buy a whole new PC.
One thing i noticed, cause I'm still on a 1050TI for up to 4K gaming on a TV, is that a better Sound system and Monitor/TV makes a greater difference then a better GPU for mixed Media Users. I'm still planning to upgrade my PC relatively soon but with a lot of old / Indie games being capable of 4k i dont feel the need to rush into upgrading. One bonus thing is that my TV has Motion interpolation to 120Hz and it works wonders in relatively new games^^
I'm still using GTX 1060 6GB till these day, i've bought 1060 6GB in 2017 arround $400 and today i can't afford newer GPUs but i'm happy with the performance of GTX 1060 6GB to runs newer games
Got 2 Asus 1060 6GB OC in my main homelab server for video transcoding and virtual desktop & other things.Used to be an amazing card but now barely works as a 6GB card with some power.
Just bought a used 1060 6gb for 50€+postage as I am building a super budget casual gaming pc. I think this should serve my needs for several years to come
Watched this on my GTX 1060 6gb. xD Best $200 I've ever spent. Alas, she's been relegated to streaming indie titles in another machine. But she lives on and continues to provide enjoyment.
i am still using one and it is indeed the best card quality& performance/price. Been running beastly till now and will keep on chunking untill there are cheaper cards max 400-500E for a mid-highend gpu
My EVGA GTX 1070 SC just kicked the bucket a few days ago :( Resistor on it blew out, and by blew out I mean it came out of the case through a side-panel vent hole and almost landed on my hand still red hot. Did voltage tests on my PSU to make sure it didn't spike it. Nah, one little resistor just couldn't do it's job anymore. RIP 1070, you were an absolute unit.
I have the GTX 1060 6GB Gigabyte Aorus triple fan model and this GPU is a monster!!! I overclocked it +120 core clock and +140 memory clock and the GPU reached 75 degrees and the TDP runs about 90-110W on 1080p and 1440p and 120-135W on 4K, but I reached 145-160W consumption and a record of 179.4W
OEM 1660S can be had for the same price in my local market, a lot of the 1060's get looked over. I had a STRIX 1060 6GB for a short time but sold it quickly for a 2060S.
I ordered rx 6700 few days ago to replace my gtx 1060 since i can no longer play most games at 60fps (even some f2p titles can't hold stable 60fps at high settings like Enlisted), that gpu gave me almost a decade of gaming at comfortable settings in hundreds of games i salute that gpu for that it's a shame that Nvidia will probably never release such great card as 1060 in the future, nowadays they are all for higher profit margin with high end gpus and ai generation. I beat entire CP2077 with FSR quality (50-80fps), and Tales of Arise (at over 60fps), Diablo 4 also runs fine so that gpu can still play some AAA titles.
Still using a 1060 laptop with a i7-6700Hq, it covers my needs for now but the system is starting to show its age, especially with load times due to it having a hybrid drive and no room for SSD expansion.
My old 1060 3 gb cousin (2016 rig) does home theatre stuff now, it's gaming days are over. Idk if it was it's running out of vram during raiding that was unpleasant, last build & gpu upgrade was during 2019-2020. I think it's fine for older games and turning down settings. I played last xpac of it open world was fine in gaming (2nd pc) just it is showing it's age.
I will always have fond memories when I think of my old 1060 6gb it was there for me for many years and games. Now with the rtx 4070 I had to say goodbye but it was a great card.
Still my main GPU. I would upgrade but I'm stuck on Z97 and my i7-4790 has really met its match with modern games like Battlefield 2042 (128-player servers really stress it to the max), so I need to save for a whole new build.
Sorry the sound is a little crappy. I wanted to re-record it, but my voice gave out. Hopefully I’ll be better in time to make the next one!
kinda makes you sound like a teenager, lmao
sounds fine pimp, noone would have noticed if you hadn't have put this comment. Good content. music is also rad
Bruh how is that crappy
@@gg-ve5iq his voice peaks are very loud, very noticeable on headphones.
Voice, what voice? With this kind of high production quality I use only closed captions.
Nvidia's greatest 'mistake' (along with the 1080 Ti), they'll never repeat it!
The whole ten series was a mistake for them, still great value today
Having switched from a 1060 6gb to a 3060Ti, I understand what you're saying. Runs like a jet plane and struggles with 1440p in certain games and settings, not worthy of its asking price (got a used one)
Still going strong...
@@dougquaid570 lmao even the 3 gig goes strong at 1080p if you don't mind maxing graphics
@@Ryzard Eh? Maxing graphics with a 3 gb buffer?
Also, I have the 1080ti fe.
The 1060 was a good value, it had performance similar to the 980 for obviously much less, and with a very reasonably 6gb for the performance, the 1060 was a very solid mid range GPU with an actual mid range pricepoint, its not holding up these days, but thats to be expected for a mid range 2016 card
Lets be fair if you arent able to play the latest and greatest you arent really missing out on much these days. If you are rocking one of these and having a blast playing indie games then you are the real heroes of the gaming community atm.
Adapting to the hardware you have rather than adapting hardware to the latest software IS the way things should be for the majority of people. JayzTwoCents has a video on why the entire "BUT IT DOESNT RUN 4K60" and "THE BOTTLENECK" toxic mentality that borderline gatekeeps people away from gaming. Nothing less than peak seems acceptable. Sadly, this video (and the comments here) are not going to reach those preachers' ears because even mentioning an older GPU would make them gag and puke (they are already vomiting over the 4090 not being able to run games at 4K@400fps and claiming the current GPU industry is shit because software outran hardware by over a year).
@@NothingXemnas
I really agree with everything you said except one thing that is i really think that current gpu industry is shit for a lot of reasons but you know it's only my opinion and i will still use modern GPUs when i need them wether i like the way the industry is going or not
@@NothingXemnas Well yes ofc u want the best, as long as its affordable. I have a GTX 980Ti which is a pretty weak card in the modern era but atleast it gives me insane performance for the money (140$ USD, bought 2 years ago). Now I could afford getting a 3070 or a 3080 by now but I dont need that yet bcs I dont have a 1440p monitor. But yeah again as long as u can afford it the absolute best is what u want. My next GPU HAS to be capable of 1440p@144Hz Ultra settings or its a waste of money.
true but i dont like medieval fantasy games i want sci fi so to me starfield is my dream game, i just want to play that, maybe ill wait a few years for the game to be patched and modded into something good.
Yes, and let’s not forget about a huge catalog of games to emulate that this card is more than capable of
The GTX 1060 was ALMOST the perfect graphics card, if it weren't for the god awful 3GB - 5GB - 6GB kerfuffle.
Don't forget those compute/mining cards with no display output at all.
1080 ti is easily the perfect gpu tho
@@max.racing chinese market exclusive for their PC cafes
Gtx 1060 3gb was great card for the price it was 100 dollars cheaper than the 6gb
@@blue-lu3iz the problem with the 1060 3gb was it wasn't just a reduction in vram, it also had less CUDA cores, so even in games where the less vram didn't matter, it performed worse. and of course if you bought a 3gb 1060 back then, now youd be looking at all the way up to 34% less performance at 1080p these days compared to a 6gb.
RE4's crashing was actually linked to Ray Tracing. If you exceeded the VRAM limit with RT on, it would crash but surprisingly with RT off you can go well into the red and the game would run generally fine without crashing, just massive performance dips sometimes.
Ray Tracing is one of the biggest gimmicks in modern video games besides VR. I always find it hilarious that games from years and years ago can get lighting down perfectly without RT and look better than games that have RT. RT is nothing more than a performance downgrade and for lazy devs to not give their games proper lighting.
Recently upgraded to a 6700 xt from my old 1060 6gb. But man did that card serve me well the past 6 years or so
same
Choosing to take the same upgrade path so I have a question -
Did you have to upgrade your CPU? Chances are you probably had paired your 6 gig 1060 with a contemporary CPU from its time.
And if you're using a CPU a couple or 3 generations older, are there any noticeable bottlenecks in your experience with the 6700 xt now?
@@indorilneravar4470 I was using an i5 4670k up until about 2 years ago when I came across a great deal for a ryzen 7 5700x and mobo combo so can't really help with that. All I do know is that as long as the cpu is "good enough" will be fine for gaming. Where that border is I don't know.
Also the r5 5600x is looking like a really good deal nowadays
I did the same thing. Ran a 1060 6gb paired with a i7-6700k until last year when I built a new system. The 1060 took everything I threw at it. It wasn't a monster of a card, but it was a stable workhorse (still is, the person I sold it to still uses it to game).
that shade thrown at jedi survivor was flawless
I'm currently rocking the P106-100 also from EVGA, basically the GTX 1060 6GB that's made exclusively for miners because it has no video output ports. Performance is somewhere in between the 3GB and 6GB variants to be honest but I paid 20 dollars for it and it's possibly the best deal I've made for my humble PC, especially considering I only play older games and had been gaming with Intel HD prior to this.
How are you getting output? Is it by the motherboard ports through the iGPU?
@@harrymichaels3877 yep, my cpu is an i5-4590, the hdmi is hooked up to the mobo. The only way to get a display output from this kind of card is to use the iGPU, the performance of the card mostly comes from modded drivers however.
LTT has a video of this card, it's a bit outdated but it explains most of the pros and cons of it pretty well still
20 whole dollars! Bargain!
holy shit 20 dollars for a gaming gpu for low 1080p gaming in 2023 sounds like a dream lmao. Nice steal. How long you been using it i've seen the video LTT made about it and it was interesting in term of power consumption, heat, and stability
@@akmalrusydi2730 bought it in April and hasn't encountered an issue so far, very happy with this thing. Temperatures weren't ideal but after a repasting it stayed cool, only going above 60 degrees celsius for the most demanding games in my collection.
As for why the GTX 1060 underperforms the 1650 in Warzone we can actually look to the architecture. Turing is a compute oriented architecture with hardware scheduling. It’s why in certain scenarios Turing can drastically outperform Pascal. Ampere similarly gears the architecture more towards compute workloads than graphics, while Lovelace is to Ampere as Pascal was to Maxwell.
Spot on!
Turing doesn't outperform Pascal just sometimes, it outperforms it all the time. I upgraded a system from a GTX 1080 to a RTX 2060 Super, and it's a night and day difference. You're using a crippled version of Turing, in GTX 16, and the vanilla 1650, is the worst of the bunch, so it's not representative of the real power of the architecture.
@@gamewizard1760ompare a GTX 1080Ti to an RTX 2060 and tell me which is faster. Also, the 16 series is undeniably Turing. It just loses RT and Tensor cores, but those Tensor cores are replaced with FP16 units. This means 16 series just loses RTX and DLSS support, and you weren’t running RTX on some of the RTX GPUs anyways. Turing GPUs were launched to hit a specific performance tier, and can sometimes punch well above that weight with its architectural advantage over Pascal. The 1660Ti is supposed to be a 1070 competitor, but in certain cases can hit a 1080 due to this.
@@dex6316 Heavy INT/Async Compute can turn Turing into an absolute monster in the right circumstance. Doom Eternal downright sees the 2080 Ti as nearly 1.7x faster, with even the meager 2060 Super matching the 1080 Ti in raster.
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The 6GB 1060 aged much like Intel's Sandy Bridge CPUs (specifically the 2600K in my case) -- both continued to take whatever you threw at them with unprecedented ease. But alas, it seems it's finally time to let the old Pascal midranger go out to pasture now in 2023...at least it can rest easy knowing it was one of the best cards you could get for the money, aside from something like the RX 580 8GB model anyway. Which, coincidentally, was the choice I went with. I still miss that card, as well as my i7-2600K that was paired with it prior to upgrading to AM4 with a R5 2600. Even from 2020-2022, that 580 was an absolute powerhouse for the $100 I spent on it. I've commented many times by this point, but I'm now rocking a R5 5600 (w/ custom PBO for identical 5600x clock speeds) and a OC model of the RTX 3060 Ti (which I got for a sweet $60 less than MSRP all said and done). Despite the "8GB VRAM" controversy running rampant across the community lately, I'm more than content with my setup and I'm sure it'll be more than adequate for 1080p native/1440p DLSS high refresh gaming for another few years to come.
Funny you should bring that up. I just upgraded my GPU to an RX 5600XT but my Sandy Bridge Xeon is still going strong and should be fine for awhile until something like AVX 2 becomes mandatory to boot a game.
I remember thinking about the 3GB model back in the day, but I went for an used 780 Ti as I got it with a good price. 1060 6GB was probably the best mid-range Nvidia GPU they've ever put out.
i just got a 1060 ti and im just happy that i can now play games from 2015 to 2020 since those eras is where most of the games i wanted to play for years now are in
I still have a 6GB one around in my secondary x99 PC. What a wonderful card it was...unfortunately it's slowly coming to an end
Still have a 1060 in my media pc. I really haven't had a reason to upgrade.
I also still have a 1070 in my main pc which is still overkill for anything I play.
Excellent card, I had it from 2016 - 2023 until it started to struggle a lot, now I have a 3080
Man. The performance of this old card still is impressive. I've put this card in several low end pc builds, and the fact that you can still play the latest titles with this is just fantastic. Some games can be played at 720p native which brings the FPS up to acceptable and takes away the softness of the picture. I know everyone wants bigger and better, but the fact that less fortunate kids still can play the latest games is somewhat of a wonder to me. Cheers.
What I am Hearing: "meh, marginal". What I am seeing: completely playable.
The GTX 1060 6 is still a great performing card when you don't factor "New", triple A latest titles. (Got the fancy Rog Strix OC version) Thanks for the review!
New modern AAA titles at max settings 1080p though, it can still play them easily at medium and there aren't that many AAA games that will push it anyway.
Oh, how time flies. When I was getting in the PC gaming world in 2018, I wanted to get this instead of 580. But the AMD one was cheaper at least from where I am. Can't believe it's been 5 years already.
You can't regret getting a 580 now. It aged unquestionably better.
Yes, the PC Resurgence GPU back in 2016. Get 980 performance and 50% more VRAM for a lower price.
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I use a 1060 6gb today and it runs all my games very well
Good video. The gtx 1060 6gb was a mid-range card from 2016. I bought one new at launch, it was a BIG upgrade from my gtx 660 3gb oem card. It was the card where I went to full 1080p gaming from 720p.
It could compete with the previous generation's gtx 980 and it had more vram. 1080p gaming was a lot more mainstream in 2016 than it is now. A great card for it's time. But time moves on.
That was my first GPU i bought with my own money in 2016, i always remembered my first real 'gamer' PC, an i5 7500 and GTX 1060, Now im rocking with a 4070 and ryzen 5 5600x but i still remember my old PC with nostalgia
Still using my 1060 6Gb today. ONly just looking for an upgrade.
I love that you test both with and without upscaling. This is where FSR really shines.
As a 1060 owner myself, I say long live the king.
Sure, the 1650 may technically be more popular now, but OGs remember the 1060. And as this video shows, the 1060 still has a little fight left in it.
What this video lacks, however, is context. Will the 1060 still make sense in a world where AMD Phoenix APUs perform just as well? i.e. The 1060 will be better than nothing... but not necessarily even better than an igpu.
I just got myself a GTX 1080 Ti, this old beast really makes a difference to my previous GTX 1080 (both EVGA FTW, the Ti a FTW3). Even in overprice-Germany you can get these now for 200 bucks, the 1080 a little above 100, which I consider quite a bargain.
I have a 1060 3gb and can still run cyberpunk at the low preset at 70-80 FPS. Removing the shroud and a custom fan curve plus overclocking it still works well in modern titles. I even stream games like cs2 on twitch with 170 fps.
I was a 1060 6GB owner for six years until March this year, when it started to fail on me. It was an excellent card that kept PC gamers like me going in the era of the crypto boom and shortages.
I have a 1060 3GB and honestly it holds up even in VR to some degree, although I’m considering an upgrade to a RX 6600.
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My 11 year old son's gaming PC is rocking a 1070 Ti and he is having a blast playing his older titles maxed out at 2560x1080 75Hz G-Sync on a 34" monitor (B450 5950X 32GB DDR4 3200). Our main gaming PC lives in the living room (B650E 7800X3D 32GB DDR5 6000 4090) on a 65" 120Hz VRR G-Sync 4K TV. We have a lot of fun playing modern games together. We hardly touch our PS5. But our Xbox Series X still gets a lot of love, especially by my son.
Just did move up to a 3060 12gb. Had the 1060 6gb since it was introduced. It was still perfectly capable of playing most games at 1080p mixed medium/high settings. I simply wanted to play some things at higher resolutions.
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People go overboard with talking how a GPU won't last or how its not good anymore when thats complete bs, when the 1060 6gb came out there were almost as heavy games are as there are now and it still does a great job just not at the highest settings at 1080p. Hell, even a 1050ti can play any modern games 1080p just on low or lowest settings. People talk as if its not the highest settings and with plenty more than 60fps the card is dead and not a AAA card anymore.
the 3GB version carried me all the way to 2023. it kinda feels bad to leave it behind, but it could just barely run RE4 remake, so I decided l it was finally the time to upgrade.
Hopefully you resold to a user in need or kept it in a little box for all the hard work!
Ol reliable right there, I own one too, it currently lives with a friend who had no PC.
@@Ryzard I still have it, though I plan on selling it, as well as the old Ryzen 1600X I took out of the system.
Still rocking 1060 6 GB bought in 2016 💪💪
I bought GTX 1060 6GB week after release and after looking at prices right now I think it will serve me 2 years more. It still holds up pretty well. I'm not really into new games, training AI also is acceptable so I will wait for RTX 5000 series.
I will say, if you can find a good used deal on a 30 series or RX 6000 series card, it can well be worth it, but new, they are still priced too high in my opinion.
1060 User here ! It’s still a great card even for last games if you are targeting 30fps
Being a PS5 and Series S user first, i still play a lot of games on my 1060 (RE4 recently)
I loved my 1060 3gb, people hating on it I never understood why, but its good since I bought it in 2018 for 80$ and sold it 1 year later for 100$. That little thing was 25% faster than a 1050ti.
Love your vids, the style of thumbnail is also distinct. Gets my eyes every time, I honestly thought your channel was 10x larger than it is!
One of the greatest cards ever made. Only surpassed by the legendary RX480/580
I fear that we will not see cards like this again for a long long time
I loved that quip about Jedi Survivor. It being “the most unopt-uh-challenging.”
I knew it was my old gtx 1060 6gb from evga. She served me well and for its age is stil a very capable gpu i only upgraded mine couse i got a usud rtx 2060 for 137$ shiped to my door i couldnt resist but i stil have my gtx 1060 stored in the box just in case.
People in 1st world countries call 30fps unplayable yet in 3rd world countries anything above 20fps is playable and anything above 26fps is buttery smooth
I think it has become the go-to card for Esports since it can still hit 144fps+ in games like Fortnite, Rocket League, CSGO and Valorant, especially at low settings. Still runs GTA5 on high settings as well. For kids or people that play low end games, it's still very usable in 2023. I don't think we will really see it fall off for a few more years in that market. In Fortnite you will need to run performance mode to hit those numbers though.
Can handle CSGO @ 144Hz 1440p easily.
I passed the 1060 6 GB from 2017 to my PC nephew in 2023 and it still a beast @768p60 on many newer games at medium, from atrocious last of us, Spiderman Remastered, Uncharted 4, God of War,etc
Your content is nice to watch while sipping on some Yorkshire tea
Due to my newer card dying on me back to the GTX 1060 6Gbyte. Still a good card, if you accept lower settings!
"they don't build'em like they use to"
I had this card all the way up to a few months ago, when I finally upgraded to a 5700XT. I probally didn't need to, that card just kept going.
You should consider putting up a spreadsheet comparing this card to the 1650, on games that can be directly compared. I'd like to see an average vs the 1650, 1660, and the APUs that are common now.
This graphic card is a legend, I have used it since 2020 before the lock-down Covid alert and still good till now.
In 2021 my country has been locked-down and no one can buy food or other things directly. In addition, the coin's price is rising very fast along with graphic card's price. People focus their income on the food and cannot buy these graphic card (Except for the coin miner).
This graphic card has save me that from getting borred that whole long time, a legend.
I have a GTX 1060 6GB that I bought right when the 1600-series came out (if i remember correctly), crazy that it has been 7 years.
I’m very happy with mine, it has served me well.
11:51 pro level gaming right there
Ah.. my first bought-it-myself graphics card! Always love a good video on the 6GB 1060. Not the 3GB/5GB ones though, those are stinky.
1050ti user here. 10 series was godly.
Does anyone think that these older cards might be more better off with like a worse monitor to game on? Like I think these kinds of cards would slay at 720p and 1024x768 and stuff like that
Of course it will perform waaay better. But the problem is the monitor. Those low res monitors is horrible. TN panel with shitty response times, poor brightness and contrast, weird color, tearing and ghosting all over the place.
Well, some modern games have 720p as the lowest resolution. Sure, why not?
I’m sure someone still makes square monitors. Or what about a tube? Like a CRT? That would work excellently.
@@enderlore1337square monitors are not that convenient honestly, i'd go with 1366x768 - there're a lot of monitors this resolution, and it has pretty much the same pixel count as 1280x1024
Crazy how demanding these new games are, I just started playling Red Dead Redemption 2 on my 8G RX 480 on Medium / High on 1440p, and it looks and runs better than these unoptimised new games
I hate the fact that most newer titles are demanding just for the sake of being demanding lol and the funny thing is that they’re almost no better than rdr2.
One example is that mess of a game cyberpunk which even as to this day, made me appreciate the quality rockstar has put on their open world titles. Like how did we went from witcher 3 to that game anyway?
I’ve told this story many times in the comments of your videos already, but what’s one more on the 1060 itself? This card, coincidentally, the _exact same_ EVGA card you’re using, was the one a friend of mine gave me to get me off of my Radeon RX 460 in the middle of the scalper pandemic. It was the most powerful GPU I’d ever used at that point. It truly changed the way all my games performed, even if they all ran decently already on my RX 460, I could crank the settings on what I was playing. But another friend desperately needed an upgrade more than I did. Core i7 860, 8 GB DDR3 1886, GTX 460, 500 GB SSD 😬. So, since I got a new CPU, the Ryzen 7 5700X on launch, my R5 3600 was now available for whoever needed or wanted it. I bought my friend a new B550 motherboard for Christmas, gave him half of my RAM, reused his SSD, my R5 3600, and the GTX 1060 that the other friend gave to me. I passed the torch, and he still uses it from time to time now to run his older early 2010s games for the time being. I actually wish I’d had a little more time with it to appreciate it and test it myself. I’d finally gotten to experience the legendary 10 series, Pascal, the number one card on Steam (at least back then) the 1060. Thankfully, the same friend who gave me the 1060 in the first place got me an RX 6600 for my birthday the following year, as I’d popped in my ancient R7 250 just so I’d have any display at all and could browse the web, I definitely wasn’t playing games unless it was Minecraft lol. This card, along with the glorious 1080 Ti, have cemented themselves along with the 10 series as a whole as legendary, and there will never be another like them.
This little guy never failed me in 6 years of use and it was my very first GPU, I honestly regret selling it
I used to run a Gainward 1070, swapped its cooling system for an aftermarket one after one of the fans failed. Got an RX6800 to replace it in 2020, but put the old 1070 into a new low spec PC and gave it away to a friend as a gift, and it's still in use today. That aftermarket cooling gave it a huge new lifespan. 😅
I'm I the only one here who has severe shimmering on last of us with fsr. But it's gone when I turn it off. It really sucks.
I see people upload their footage on TH-cam and it's no way near as bad as mine.
still playing on it its a legendary card
-How many times have you test the 1060?
-Icerberg Tech: Yes
im still using mine.. i only upgrade motherboard and CPU from i5 7400 to i5 12400.. games that i mostly played (apex legends, gta v) feels so smooth after.
Today I thought on upgrading my PC. But when I googled gtx 1060, I saw videos like yours. And now I become more attached and I might wait a few more months until I replace my trusty GPU.
I still can play any game I want to play on it. Elden Ring is running just fine (when nothing else is open) and I can at least render without having a breakdown in After Effects.
I wish to find someone who could give me the best advice for my future setup. Cause I fear I have to buy a whole new PC.
One thing i noticed, cause I'm still on a 1050TI for up to 4K gaming on a TV, is that a better Sound system and Monitor/TV makes a greater difference then a better GPU for mixed Media Users.
I'm still planning to upgrade my PC relatively soon but with a lot of old / Indie games being capable of 4k i dont feel the need to rush into upgrading.
One bonus thing is that my TV has Motion interpolation to 120Hz and it works wonders in relatively new games^^
Ancient? Still rocking my GTX1080ti. Might upgrade next generation.
Happy with my 1060 6gb :) since 2016
I'm still using GTX 1060 6GB till these day, i've bought 1060 6GB in 2017 arround $400 and today i can't afford newer GPUs but i'm happy with the performance of GTX 1060 6GB to runs newer games
I'm still and will be waiting for The old fx 8350 is it still worse than i5 2500k
And the last 2011-3 cpu king the i7 6950x in 2023
In spite of its inclusion in the Unoptimized Trio, the frametime graph for RE4 was, for the most part in the shared clip, a freaking table-flat line.
Got 2 Asus 1060 6GB OC in my main homelab server for video transcoding and virtual desktop & other things.Used to be an amazing card but now barely works as a 6GB card with some power.
Just bought a used 1060 6gb for 50€+postage as I am building a super budget casual gaming pc. I think this should serve my needs for several years to come
I am glad i found ur channel
V good content
great look at the old workhorse
Watched this on my GTX 1060 6gb. xD Best $200 I've ever spent. Alas, she's been relegated to streaming indie titles in another machine. But she lives on and continues to provide enjoyment.
i am still using one and it is indeed the best card quality& performance/price. Been running beastly till now and will keep on chunking untill there are cheaper cards max 400-500E for a mid-highend gpu
My EVGA GTX 1070 SC just kicked the bucket a few days ago :( Resistor on it blew out, and by blew out I mean it came out of the case through a side-panel vent hole and almost landed on my hand still red hot. Did voltage tests on my PSU to make sure it didn't spike it. Nah, one little resistor just couldn't do it's job anymore. RIP 1070, you were an absolute unit.
I have the GTX 1060 6GB Gigabyte Aorus triple fan model and this GPU is a monster!!! I overclocked it +120 core clock and +140 memory clock and the GPU reached 75 degrees and the TDP runs about 90-110W on 1080p and 1440p and 120-135W on 4K, but I reached 145-160W consumption and a record of 179.4W
Been running this bad boy for the past 4 or so years. Honestly almost feeling bad that im retiring mine. went to 4080 the last month
OEM 1660S can be had for the same price in my local market, a lot of the 1060's get looked over. I had a STRIX 1060 6GB for a short time but sold it quickly for a 2060S.
Im still happy with my GTX 1070Ti paired with a r5 5600 and 16gb 3200mhz
I used my 1060 with i7 7700 from 2016 to 2022 when I upgraded to ryzen 5 3600x and a 1660ti.
Still rocking this beast because there's nothing similar in value 👍
I still have a 1060 in my Linux desktop. Works great for older games that I typically play.
I ordered rx 6700 few days ago to replace my gtx 1060 since i can no longer play most games at 60fps (even some f2p titles can't hold stable 60fps at high settings like Enlisted), that gpu gave me almost a decade of gaming at comfortable settings in hundreds of games i salute that gpu for that it's a shame that Nvidia will probably never release such great card as 1060 in the future, nowadays they are all for higher profit margin with high end gpus and ai generation. I beat entire CP2077 with FSR quality (50-80fps), and Tales of Arise (at over 60fps), Diablo 4 also runs fine so that gpu can still play some AAA titles.
Still have my Founders Edition card. It’s just a decoration now occasionally a loner card for when I fix broken GPUs. Still works and I love it.
Still using a 1060 laptop with a i7-6700Hq, it covers my needs for now but the system is starting to show its age, especially with load times due to it having a hybrid drive and no room for SSD expansion.
My old 1060 3 gb cousin (2016 rig) does home theatre stuff now, it's gaming days are over. Idk if it was it's running out of vram during raiding that was unpleasant, last build & gpu upgrade was during 2019-2020. I think it's fine for older games and turning down settings. I played last xpac of it open world was fine in gaming (2nd pc) just it is showing it's age.
Ive got this card in my second PC and im still pretty impressed with it
I will always have fond memories when I think of my old 1060 6gb it was there for me for many years and games. Now with the rtx 4070 I had to say goodbye but it was a great card.
How did you get msi afterburner and rivaturner to work on Forza Horizon 5? My game crashes if they're opened.
Amazing video as always:)
Yep, got my 1060 6gb Mini in 2016 for just 220€ new. People hated that card for no reason. Still use and enjoy that card 😊
Still my main GPU. I would upgrade but I'm stuck on Z97 and my i7-4790 has really met its match with modern games like Battlefield 2042 (128-player servers really stress it to the max), so I need to save for a whole new build.