10 Aug 2021 - Graphics card reviewed

While some games have more powerful requirements than this GPU, the GeForce GTX 1060 Zotac AMP 6GB Edition is only really challenged by the most demanding games released today, but normally it is more than capable of running games with a stable frame rate at 1080p.

GeForce GTX 1060 Zotac AMP 6GB Edition is capable of DirectX 12 gaming requirements.

Here we take a closer look at the various performances across 1080p, 1440p and 4K screen resolutions for the GeForce GTX 1060 Zotac AMP 6GB Edition. In particular this is looking at the Ultra graphics settings to see what sort of FPS this graphics card can get across some of the more popular games played in 2023. We look at 1000 of the most demanding games available today and this GPU is better than the recommended graphics requirement of more than 716 games in the list.

First we looked at 1080p resolution for the GeForce GTX 1060 Zotac AMP 6GB Edition performance to explore what sort of benchmarks it would achieve on the popular title Dying Light 2 and saw it deliver playable frames per second across the following graphics settings - Low: 83 FPS, Medium: 66 FPS, High: 44 FPS and Ultra: 32 FPS. We proceeded to look at Battlefield 2042 to see how that compared and saw that it returned a weak 21 FPS at Ultra 1080p.

With PC gamers looking for larger screen sizes like 1440p we tested the GeForce GTX 1060 Zotac AMP 6GB Edition by playing Dying Light 2 which yielded a weak performance. Its FPS results for the graphics settings are as follows - L: 63FPS, M: 50FPS, H: 34FPS, U: 24FPS. Another popular game we tested with this card was Battlefield 2042 and that was weak. This graphics card delivered 16 FPS at Ultra 1440p. Another popular title was Days Gone which gets playable results with a 39FPS on Ultra 1440p. 1440p GeForce GTX 1060 Zotac AMP 6GB Edition PC gaming is a reasonable choice at this screen size. You can always tweak modern game graphics settings to help you get a better High graphics setting experience at 1440p.

How many years will the GeForce GTX 1060 Zotac AMP 6GB Edition graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the GeForce GTX 1060 Zotac AMP 6GB Edition in your PC? There is still 2 years of top end gaming left in this GeForce GTX 1060 Zotac AMP 6GB Edition

Whats a good PC graphics upgrade for the GeForce GTX 1060 Zotac AMP 6GB Edition? There are no graphics cards on the current market that would provide a big enough increase in performance to warrant upgrading the GeForce GTX 1060 Zotac AMP 6GB Edition.