10 Aug 2021 - Graphics card reviewed

A mid to low level graphics card, the GeForce GTX 1060M is found in budget machines nowadays, struggling to meet AAA system requirements.

GeForce GTX 1060M is capable of DirectX 12 gaming requirements.

This PC hardware performance game review for the GeForce GTX 1060M graphics card, when running 2023 more popular games, lets us see what type of FPS this card gets when playing at 1080p, 1440p and 4K screen resolutions and ultra settings. This graphics hardware can run 457 of the 1000 most demanding PC games played today.

A GeForce GTX 1060M card at 1080p is seeing a strong frame rate when running FIFA 22 on Ultra - 85 FPS. Lets look at the performance its getting on Battlefield 2042 which is 16 FPS. To add a bit more variety lets see how the popular Star Citizen is predicted to perform on this hardware, which gets a reasonable 55 FPS.

Next up we increase screen res tests to accommodate the growing in popularity 1440p screen size. So we booted up FIFA 22 to see how the GeForce GTX 1060M dealt with it. It scored up a good series of FPS results across these graphics presets - Low: 170 FPS, Medium: 134 FPS, High: 90 FPS and Ultra: 64 FPS. Next we looked at Battlefield 2042 which was weak with a 12 FPS at Ultra 1440p. And finally looked at Star Citizen that we predict will get an Ultra 1440p FPS of 42. Getting popular modern games to run at 1440p on the GeForce GTX 1060M is certainly capable of running larger monitor gaming at Ultra or High graphics settings.

How many years will the GeForce GTX 1060M graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the GeForce GTX 1060M in your PC? Our current calculations suggest a graphics card upgrade will be required in around 12-18 months

Whats a good PC graphics upgrade for the GeForce GTX 1060M? If you want an upgrade suggestion for the GeForce GTX 1060M then a good choice would be 20 Series GeForce RTX 2070 Super Max-Q as this is better than 805 of the top 1000 most demanding game requirements with 35% better performance as well.