12 Jul 2021 - Graphics card reviewed

Gamers upgrading will be considering the GeForce GTX 1060 Asus Dual OC 6GB graphics card as a serious price to performance entry point. This card will meet and play most demanding AAA games and do so with good graphics setting as standard, and confidently pushing past the recommended game system requirements needed to run today’s games. GeForce GTX 1060 Asus Dual OC 6GB is capable of DirectX 12 gaming requirements.

Lets look at the GeForce GTX 1060 Asus Dual OC 6GB game performance guide for some of the biggest games played in 2021. In particular we will see how well this graphics card runs on Ultra settings on 1080p resolution as well as 1440p and 4K. In comparison to the game recommended requirements of the 1000 most demanding games played today this PC hardware can run 662.

Looking at some of the modern popular games people are playing today the GeForce GTX 1060 Asus Dual OC 6GB is predicted to run Star Citizen with reasonable performances on 1080p Ultra, getting 55 frames per second. Comparing this to Far Cry 6 which is predicted to get weak results, where it averages 23 FPS. Another popular game we looked at is Days Gone, which is running at 52 frames per second.

People are turning their increasingly more powerful graphics cards to the popular 1440p screen size so we tested the GeForce GTX 1060 Asus Dual OC 6GB to see how it performs on 1440p. First off we have researched Star Citizen and predict it will be playable. The frame rates predicted for the game presets were - Low: 111 FPS, Medium: 87 FPS, High: 59 FPS and Ultra: 42 FPS. We added Far Cry 6 to our research and predict it will be weak with a 18 FPS at Ultra 1440p. And then tested Days Gone which got 39 FPS at Ultra 1440p. Running games at 1440p with a GeForce GTX 1060 Asus Dual OC 6GB is a perfectly suitable selection of hardware for theis larger screen size. If a game at 1440p struggles a bit or experiences a frame drop then you can tweak settings in game to help get it stable. This might mean lowering it to medium or low in some specific options.

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

Whats a good PC graphics upgrade for the GeForce GTX 1060 Asus Dual OC 6GB? A good upgrade choice for this graphics card today would be the 16 Series GeForce GTX 1660 Super 6GB. For comparison of the 1000 most demanding games around today this suggested upgrade is 21% better and can meet 762 of their recommended requirements. Alternatively we would suggest getting a R-500 Series Radeon RX Vega 56 8GB, as it can run 900 of the top 1000 demanding game requirements today with 30% increased graphics performance.