20 Feb 2021 - Graphics card reviewed

Gamers upgrading will be considering the GeForce GTX 1060 Gigabyte Xtreme Gaming 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 Gigabyte Xtreme Gaming 6GB is capable of DirectX 12 gaming requirements.

We take a look at game performance achieved on this graphics card when running 2021 popular games. This short GeForce GTX 1060 Gigabyte Xtreme Gaming 6GB game hardware review looks at the graphics card frame rate performance on Ultra graphics settings at 1080p, 1440p and 4K screen resolutions. This card runs recommended graphics requirements of 734 games from the top 1000 most demanding games being played today.

Looking at some of the modern popular games people are playing today the GeForce GTX 1060 Gigabyte Xtreme Gaming 6GB is running World of Warcraft: Shadowlands and delivering playable performances on 1080p Ultra, getting 32 frames per second. Comparing this to Hitman 3 which is getting playable results, where it averages 38 FPS. Another popular game we looked at is Cyberpunk 2077, which is running at 53 frames per second.

One of the growing popular screen resolutions for PC gaming is the wider 1440p. So we wanted to see how well the GeForce GTX 1060 Gigabyte Xtreme Gaming 6GB performed at 1440p by taking a look at some of the current popular games. First we looked at World of Warcraft: Shadowlands and saw it deliver weak frames per second across the following graphics settings - Low: 63 FPS, Medium: 50 FPS, High: 34 FPS and Ultra: 24 FPS. We then checked the performance on Hitman 3 to see if that runs well. It was playable with a 29 FPS at Ultra 1440p. Getting popular modern games to run at 1440p on the GeForce GTX 1060 Gigabyte Xtreme Gaming 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 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? If you want an upgrade suggestion for the GeForce GTX 1060 Gigabyte Xtreme Gaming 6GB then a good choice would be 16 Series GeForce GTX 1660 Ti 6GB as this is better than 807 of the top 1000 most demanding game requirements with 21% better performance as well. Alternatively a good upgrade choice for this graphics card today would be the R-500 Series Radeon RX Vega 56 8GB. For comparison of the 1000 most demanding games around today this suggested upgrade is 28% better and can meet 908 of their recommended requirements.