When NVIDIA announced the GeForce GTX 1060, the company allowed its add-in card (AIC) partners to launch their custom-design cards right away. The company set the MSRP of this SKU at US$249 and is selling its reference-design "Founders Edition" SKU at $299, a $50 premium. This allows its partners to position their custom-design cards at either around the $249 baseline price or the $299 Founders Edition one. Show The GeForce GTX 1060 is NVIDIA's response to the Radeon RX 480, which offers performance rivaling that of $350 products from the previous generation at an attractive $229 price point. It is based on the newer 16 nm GP106 silicon, which is the third ASIC built on the "Pascal" architecture. This chip features half the SIMD machinery of the GP104 silicon on which the GTX 1080 is based, but has 75% of the raster operation machinery and memory configuration.  The ASUS GTX 1060 STRIX OC is a custom design variant of the GTX 1060 6 GB, which means it will be significantly faster than the 3 GB version. It also comes overclocked out of the box to a base clock of 1620 MHz, and memory has been overclocked also, to 2052 MHz. ASUS is using their new triple-fan, dual-slot thermal solution we've seen first on the GTX 1080 STRIX and RX480 STRIX. Also included is a backplate, even though it lacks the RGB-lit ASUS ROG logo we've seen on the company's RX 480. The ASUS GTX 1060 STRIX OC 6 GB currently retails at $330, which is a pretty big increase from other GTX 1060 6 GB cards that start at $250. Sorry, we just need to make sure you're not a robot. For best results, please make sure your browser is accepting cookies. Type the characters you see in this image:Try different image Conditions of Use Privacy Policy © 1996-2014, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates Một thiết kế hình cánh đã được cấp bằng sáng chế cho lưu lượng khí tối đa và tăng 105% áp suất tĩnh lên bộ tản nhiệt, trong khi vận hành yên tĩnh gấp 3 lần so với các card tham khảo. 5. Công nghệ AUTO-EXTREME với Sức mạnh Siêu Hợp kim IIChất lượng cao cấp và độ ổn định tốt nhất Card đồ họa ASUS được sản xuất sử dụng công nghệ AUTO-EXTREME, là quy trình sản xuất đầu tiên trong ngành được tự động 100%, với các linh kiện Sức mạnh Siêu Hợp kim II cao cấp tăng cường hiệu suất, giảm thiểu tổn thất điện năng, giảm hiện tượng linh kiện kêu vo vo khi chịu tải, và giảm nhiệt độ cho chất lượng và độ ổn định không đối thủ. 6. Cổng HDMI thân thiện với thực tế ảoTận hưởng Trải nghiệm Thực tế Ảo Đắm chìm Card đồ họa ASUS Dual GeForce® GTX 1060 có hai cổng HDMI để kết nối một thiết bị thực tế ảo và hiển thị cùng lúc, để bạn có thể tận hưởng trải nghiệm thực tế ảo đắm chìm bất cứ lúc nào mà không cần thay dây cáp. 7. GPU Tweak II với XSplit GamecasterGPU Tweak II:Hiệu chỉnh hiệu năng một cách trực quan Điều chỉnh tốc độ xung, điện áp và tốc độ quạt để hiệu chỉnh card đồ họa của bạn theo cách bạn muốn. Chọn giữa các chế độ Tiêu chuẩn hoặc Cao cấp của GPU Tweak tùy theo trình độ kinh nghiệm của bạn. Chọn Chế độ Tiêu chuẩn để truy cập các tùy chọn Trực quan giúp hiệu chỉnh dễ dàng. Đây là một tùy chọn tuyệt vời cho những người mới học cách hiệu chỉnh card đồ họa. Hoặc, hãy dùng thử Chế độ Cao cấp cho tùy chọn hiệu chỉnh chuyên sâu và tinh tế để kiểm soát toàn diện đối với những thợ ép xung giàu kinh nghiệm. 8. XSplitGamecaster:Truyền phát nhanh quá trình chơi Giờ đây, bạn cũng có thể chạy XSplit Gamecaster để bật lên giao diện trong game và bắt đầu truyền phát hoặc ghi lại phiên chơi game của bạn chỉ với một nhấp chuột. Bạn cũng có thể thử các tính năng ghi chú trong game và chỉnh sửa video để tăng cường trải nghiệm truyền phát game của mình. We discovered a couple of months ago that NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 1060 delivers excellent 1080p performance and admirable 1440p performance, so what happens when ASUS straps on an even larger cooler and gives the card an overclock? Well, we get the Strix, an LED-equipped beast of a card that runs cool and quiet. We discovered this past summer that NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 1060 is quite an effective card at its suggested price of ~$249 (6GB model), delivering superb 1080p performance, and solid 1440p performance. As impressive as it was, though, there’s always a little room for improvement, right? ASUS thinks so, and it has its Strix edition to help prove it. Whereas the reference Founders Edition of the GTX 1060 features a leaf-blower style fan under a closed metal shroud, ASUS offers a beefed-up fin array with its Strix and tops the open shroud with three fans. That makes the Strix edition bulkier overall versus the Founders Edition, but as we’ll see later, the trade-off of space is worth it. The GTX 1060 Strix supports a couple of predefined modes, with the shipping one being “Gaming”. In that mode, the card supports a GPU Boost clock of 1847MHz. When the GPU TweakII software is installed, “OC Mode” can be used instead, to increase the clock further, to 1873MHz. In the real-world, the top-end of each value will be even higher, something I’ll take a look at on the final page. The important thing to note is that the Strix edition is an overclocked GTX 1060, so out-of-the-gate, it’ll perform much better than a Founders Edition – as we’ll see soon. Time for some hardware porn: ASUS equips the GTX 1060 Strix with a DVI-D port, dual HDMI ports, and dual DisplayPorts. While NVIDIA’s design sports a 6-pin power connector, ASUS includes an 8-pin for the sake of possibly improved stability and improved overclocking potential. As seen in one of the shots above, Strix also includes a backplate, and unlike most, it actually adds to the style of the card. Overall, the entire card is great-looking; it’s not flashy, and would look good in any build. OK – perhaps “not flashy” is incorrect phrasing, as under the shroud, a customizable LED can be found. With downloadable software called Aura, you can change the LED mode and color – great for those wanting to add a bit of pizzazz to their build. Don’t want color? You can turn the LED feature off entirely. If you’re indifferent to the color of the LED, but use a windowed PC so that you can see the card, you can also use a feature that adjusts the card’s color based on temperature: green for modest temperatures, and yellow/red for peaked temperatures. NVIDIA GeForce Series Cores Core MHz Memory Mem MHz Mem Bus TDP TITAN X 3584 1417 12288MB 10000 384-bit 250W GeForce GTX 1080 2560 1607 8192MB 10000 256-bit 180W GeForce GTX 1070 1920 1506 8192MB 8000 256-bit 150W GeForce GTX 1060 1280 ≤1700 6144MB 8000 192-bit 120W As seen in the table above, the GTX 1060 sits at the bottom of NVIDIA’s current line-up, although that’s not a bad thing considering it’s still a midrange card (the GTX 1050 is rumored to make an appearance soon). So what’s that mean in performance terms? In our opinion: NVIDIA GeForce Series 1080p 1440p 3440×1440 4K TITAN X Overkill Overkill Excellent Great GeForce GTX 1080 Overkill Excellent Excellent Good GeForce GTX 1070 Excellent Great Good Poor GeForce GTX 1060 Great Good Poor Poor Overkill: 60 FPS? More like 100 FPS. As future-proofed as it gets. Excellent: Surpass 60 FPS at high quality settings with ease. Great: Hit 60 FPS with high quality settings. Good: Nothing too impressive; it gets the job done (60 FPS will require tweaking). Poor: Expect real headaches from the awful performance. As a “Great” 1080p card, the GTX 1060 will hit 60 FPS pretty effortlessly in most of today’s games, although it might not be common to be able to top-out a game’s graphics settings at that resolution with future titles. “Good” for 1440p means that compromises will have to be made in most of today’s current games in order to hit 60 FPS. What that means for the Strix is that those values would be even more emphasized. It’d take a lot more than a clock boost to upgrade any of these values, though. Testing NotesWhen we need to build a test PC for performance testing, “no bottleneck” is the name of the game. While we admit that few of our readers are going to be equipped with an Intel 8-core processor clocked to 4GHz, we opt for such a build to make sure our GPU testing is as apples-to-apples as possible, with as little variation as possible. Ultimately, the only thing that matters here is the performance of the GPUs, so the more we can rule out a bottleneck, the better. That all said, our test PC: Graphics Card Test System Processors Intel Core i7-5960X (8-core) @ 4.0GHz Motherboard ASUS X99 DELUXE Memory Kingston HyperX Beast 32GB (4x8GB) – DDR4-2133 11-12-11 Graphics AMD Radeon R9 Nano 4GB – Catalyst 16.5.3 AMD Radeon RX 480 8GB – Catalyst 16.6.2 Beta NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 4GB – GeForce 365.22 NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN X 12GB – GeForce 365.22 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB – GeForce 368.64 (Beta) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB GeForce 372.90 (ASUS Strix) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 8GB – GeForce 368.19 (Beta) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 8GB – GeForce 368.25 Audio Onboard Storage Kingston SSDNow V310 1TB SSD Power Supply Cooler Master Silent Pro Hybrid 1300W Chassis Cooler Master Storm Trooper Full-Tower Cooling Thermaltake WATER3.0 Extreme Liquid Cooler Displays Acer Predator X34 34″ Ultra-wide Acer XB280HK 28″ 4K G-SYNC ASUS MG279Q 27″ 1440p FreeSync Et cetera Windows 10 Pro (10586) 64-bit Framerate information for all tests – with the exception of certain time demos and DirectX 12 tests – are recorded with the help of Fraps. For tests where Fraps use is not ideal, I use the game’s built-in test (the only option for DX12 titles right now). In the past, I’ve tweaked the Windows OS as much as possible to rule out test variations, but over time, such optimizations have proven fruitless. As a result, the Windows 10 installation I use is about as stock as possible, with minor modifications to suit personal preferences. In all, I use 8 different games for regular game testing, and 3 for DirectX 12 testing. That’s in addition to the use of three synthetic benchmarks. Because some games are sponsored, the list below helps oust potential bias in our testing. (AMD) – Ashes of the Singularity (DirectX 12) (AMD) – Battlefield 4 (AMD) – Crysis 3 (AMD) – Hitman (DirectX 12) (NVIDIA) – Metro: Last Light Redux (NVIDIA) – Rise Of The Tomb Raider (incl. DirectX 12) (NVIDIA) – The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (Neutral) – DOOM (Neutral) – Grand Theft Auto V (Neutral) – Total War: ATTILA If you’re interested in benchmarking your own configuration to compare to our results, you can download this file (5MB) and make sure you’re using the exact same graphics settings. I’ll lightly explain how I benchmark each test before I get into each game’s performance results. Support our efforts! With ad revenue at an all-time low for written websites, we're relying more than ever on reader support to help us continue putting so much effort into this type of content. You can support us by becoming a Patron, or by using our Amazon shopping affiliate links listed through our articles. Thanks for your support! |
