2 Aug 2020 - Graphics card reviewed

The GeForce GTX 1060 Gigabyte Xtreme Gaming 6GB is a high performing piece of gaming hardware, still confidently featuring in PC gamer computers. 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 2020 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 802 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 predicted to run Halo Infinite with playable performances on 1080p Ultra, getting 38 frames per second. Comparing this to Death Stranding which is getting reasonable results, where it averages 53 FPS. Another popular game we looked at is Cyberpunk 2077, which is predicted to run at 38 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 Halo Infinite and predict it will deliver playable frames per second across the following graphics settings - Low: 77 FPS, Medium: 60 FPS, High: 41 FPS and Ultra: 29 FPS. We then checked the performance on Death Stranding to see if that runs well. It was playable with a 40 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? No graphics card upgrade required for 2 to 3 years of meeting top end game system requirements

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 860 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 946 of their recommended requirements.