7 Mar 2021 - Graphics card reviewed

Gamers upgrading will be considering the GeForce GTX 1060 EVGA ACX 2.0 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 EVGA ACX 2.0 6GB is capable of DirectX 12 gaming requirements.

Game performance for the GeForce GTX 1060 EVGA ACX 2.0 6GB where we look at the bigger games played in 2021. Looking closely at the graphics card frame rate performance on Ultra graphics settings at 1080p, 1440p and 4K screen resolutions. In comparison to the game recommended requirements of the 1000 most demanding games played today this PC hardware can run 571.

First we looked at 1080p resolution for the GeForce GTX 1060 EVGA ACX 2.0 6GB performance to explore what sort of benchmarks it would achieve on the popular title Cyberpunk 2077 and saw it deliver reasonable frames per second across the following graphics settings - Low: 132 FPS, Medium: 104 FPS, High: 70 FPS and Ultra: 50 FPS. We proceeded to look at Resident Evil 8 to see how that compared and predict that it will return a playable 29 FPS at Ultra 1080p.

With PC gamers looking for larger screen sizes like 1440p we tested the GeForce GTX 1060 EVGA ACX 2.0 6GB by playing Cyberpunk 2077 which yielded a playable performance. Its FPS results for the graphics settings are as follows - L: 101FPS, M: 79FPS, H: 53FPS, U: 38FPS. Another popular game we researched with this card was Resident Evil 8 and that was weak. This graphics card is predicted to deliver 22 FPS at Ultra 1440p. Another popular title was Grand Theft Auto VI which is predicted to get weak results with a 23FPS on Ultra 1440p. Running games at 1440p with a GeForce GTX 1060 EVGA ACX 2.0 6GB is a reasonable performance fit for this resolution. Some of the more resource intensive games may well need a few graphical tweak to get the most out of the graphics card at this increased resolution.

How many years will the GeForce GTX 1060 EVGA ACX 2.0 6GB graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the GeForce GTX 1060 EVGA ACX 2.0 6GB in your PC? There is still 2 years of top end gaming left in this GeForce GTX 1060 EVGA ACX 2.0 6GB

Whats a good PC graphics upgrade for the GeForce GTX 1060 EVGA ACX 2.0 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 25% better and can meet 800 of their recommended requirements. Alternatively a good choice when looking to upgrade the GeForce GTX 1060 EVGA ACX 2.0 6GB would be the R-500 Series Radeon RX Vega 56 8GB which meets 908 of the 1000 top game’s recommended system requirements and has 34% better performance.