10 Aug 2021 - Graphics card reviewed

While some games have more powerful requirements than this GPU, the GeForce GTX 1060 Gigabyte Xtreme Gaming 6GB 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 Gigabyte Xtreme Gaming 6GB is capable of DirectX 12 gaming requirements.

Here is a performance review on how capable the GeForce GTX 1060 Gigabyte Xtreme Gaming 6GB is at running the more popular games of 2022. Specifically looking at this PC hardware’s ability to get suitable frames per second to play on Ultra game settings and what FPS it might get on 1080p, 1440p and 4K screen res. This card runs recommended graphics requirements of 742 games from the top 1000 most demanding games being played today.

Now onto the frame rates achieved at 1080p. We are seeing Battlefield 2042 getting 22 FPS with the GeForce GTX 1060 Gigabyte Xtreme Gaming 6GB, FIFA 22 getting 91 FPS and Back 4 Blood getting 59 frames per second. All run on Ultra at 1920x1080 screen res.

As the PC gaming masses explore larger screen resolutions we decided to run some game checks at 1440p across a few popular games. We discovered the GeForce GTX 1060 Gigabyte Xtreme Gaming 6GB ran Battlefield 2042 to a weak performance level. Results across the graphics settings looked like this, Low: 44 FPS, Medium: 35 FPS, High: 23 FPS and Ultra: 17 FPS. Another game tested was FIFA 22, L: 183FPS, M: 144FPS, H: 97FPS, U: 69FPS. And then we checked graphics card performance on Back 4 Blood, which returned L: 119FPS, M: 94FPS, H: 63FPS, U: 45FPS at 1440p. Running games at 1440p with a GeForce GTX 1060 Gigabyte Xtreme Gaming 6GB is a solid choice of hardware for increased screen resolution gaming. We can see this graphics card is capable of delivering reliable frame rates at Ultra and certainly High graphics settings at 1440p.

How many years will the GeForce GTX 1060 Gigabyte Xtreme Gaming 6GB graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the GeForce GTX 1060 Gigabyte Xtreme Gaming 6GB in your PC? Upgrade time for this GPU is currently placed at 2 years

Whats a good PC graphics upgrade for the GeForce GTX 1060 Gigabyte Xtreme Gaming 6GB? 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 Gigabyte Xtreme Gaming 6GB.