20 Feb 2021 - Graphics card reviewed

Gamers upgrading will be considering the GeForce GTX 1060 Inno3D iChill X3 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 Inno3D iChill X3 is capable of DirectX 12 gaming requirements.

Here is a performance review on how capable the GeForce GTX 1060 Inno3D iChill X3 is at running the more popular games of 2021. 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. Of the 1000 most demanding recommended specs found in game requirements today, this gpu is more powerful than the graphics requirement of 723 games in todays list.

First we looked at 1080p resolution for the GeForce GTX 1060 Inno3D iChill X3 performance to explore what sort of benchmarks it would achieve on the popular title Little Nightmares 2 and saw it deliver strong frames per second across the following graphics settings - Low: 256 FPS, Medium: 202 FPS, High: 136 FPS and Ultra: 97 FPS. We proceeded to look at Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War to see how that compared and saw that it returned a reasonable 59 FPS at Ultra 1080p.

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 Inno3D iChill X3 performed at 1440p by taking a look at some of the current popular games. First we looked at Little Nightmares 2 and saw it deliver good frames per second across the following graphics settings - Low: 195 FPS, Medium: 154 FPS, High: 104 FPS and Ultra: 74 FPS. We then checked the performance on Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War to see if that runs well. It was reasonable with a 45 FPS at Ultra 1440p. 1440p GeForce GTX 1060 Inno3D iChill X3 PC gaming is one of the better graphics cards for gaming at this screen resolution. We will see 1440p Ultra and High settings across almost all current games.

How many years will the GeForce GTX 1060 Inno3D iChill X3 graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the GeForce GTX 1060 Inno3D iChill X3 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 Inno3D iChill X3? Are you looking to upgrade a GeForce GTX 1060 Inno3D iChill X3? Then we would suggest getting a 16 Series GeForce GTX 1660 Super 6GB, as it can run 800 of the top 1000 demanding game requirements today with 21% increased graphics performance. Alternatively a suitable upgrade choice for the GeForce GTX 1060 Inno3D iChill X3 is the R-500 Series Radeon RX Vega 56 8GB, which is 30% more powerful and can run 908 of the 1000 most demanding PC games beating their recommended requirements.