Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1060 G1 Gaming 6GB Review

September 16, 2016 | 17:00

Tags: #best-gtx-1060

Companies: #gigabyte

Unigine Valley 1.0 Benchmark

Publisher: Unigine

Unigine's free Valley 1.0 benchmarking tool works well as a graphics benchmark as it is GPU limited and is thus incredibly taxing on the GPU whilst placing the CPU under very little stress.

Unigine's scoring system is effectively linear: a card with 2,000 points is considered twice as fast as one with 1,000 points, and half as fast as one with 4,000 points. As such, you can easily replicate and run the test on your own system to gauge roughly how big a difference an upgrade would likely make for you. Currently, Nvidia hardware tends to fare much better than AMD's in this test, so it is mostly useful for comparing AMD cards with other AMD cards and likewise with Nvidia.


Unigine Valley 1.0

1,920 x 1,080, DX11, 'Ultra' settings, 0x AA

  • EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 FTW 8GB
  • Asus GeForce GTX 1070 Strix OC 8GB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6GB
  • Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1060 G1 Gaming 6GB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 980 4GB
  • AMD Radeon R9 Fury X 4GB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 Founders Edition 6GB
  • Asus GeForce GTX 970 DirectCU Mini 4GB
  • Sapphire Radeon R9 390X Nitro 8GB
  • AMD Radeon RX 480 4GB
  • AMD Radeon RX 480 8GB
  • Sapphire Radeon RX 470 Nitro OC 4GB
  • Palit GeForce GTX 960 Super JetStream 2GB
  • Sapphire Radeon R9 380 ITX Compact 4GB
  • Gigabyte GeForce GTX 950 OC 2GB
  • Sapphire Radeon R7 370 Nitro OC 4GB
  • Gigabyte Radeon RX 460 WindForce 2X OC 2GB
    • 6812
    • 6613
    • 6018
    • 5064
    • 5062
    • 4999
    • 4581
    • 4254
    • 4239
    • 3762
    • 3713
    • 3616
    • 2962
    • 2731
    • 2439
    • 1743
    • 1627
0
1000
2000
3000
4000
5000
6000
7000
Score (Higher Is Better)
  • Score

Unigine Valley 1.0

2,560 x 1,440, DX11, 'Ultra' settings, 0x AA

  • EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 FTW 8GB
  • Asus GeForce GTX 1070 Strix OC 8GB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6GB
  • AMD Radeon R9 Fury X 4GB
  • Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1060 G1 Gaming 6GB (OC Mode)
  • Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1060 G1 Gaming 6GB (Gaming Mode)
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 980 4GB
  • Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1060 G1 Gaming 6GB (Eco Mode)
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 Founders Edition 6GB
  • Sapphire Radeon R9 390X Nitro 8GB
  • Asus GeForce GTX 970 DirectCU Mini 4GB
  • AMD Radeon RX 480 4GB
  • AMD Radeon RX 480 8GB
  • Sapphire Radeon RX 470 Nitro OC 4GB
  • Palit GeForce GTX 960 Super JetStream 2GB
  • Sapphire Radeon R9 380 ITX Compact 4GB
  • Gigabyte GeForce GTX 950 OC 2GB
  • Sapphire Radeon R7 370 Nitro OC 4GB
  • Gigabyte Radeon RX 460 WindForce 2X OC 2GB
    • 5386
    • 4443
    • 3980
    • 3364
    • 3175
    • 3151
    • 3094
    • 3060
    • 2970
    • 2656
    • 2561
    • 2268
    • 2229
    • 2169
    • 1766
    • 1633
    • 1439
    • 1024
    • 943
0
1000
2000
3000
4000
5000
6000
Score (Higher Is Better)
  • Score

Discuss this in the forums

Posted by David - Fri Sep 16 2016 17:20

On par with a stock GTX 980 - that's not bad for a mid range card, although I still think the prices for 1060s should be £200-£220 and £240-£250 max for the third party cooler models.

Also, and I know it's very subjective and that it doesn't really matter for most folk, but styling really looks like it was an after thought.

Posted by SuperHans123 - Fri Sep 16 2016 18:26

Typo, should be quite the same
quite the some critical reception

Posted by Dogbert666 - Fri Sep 16 2016 19:09

Derp. Fixed - thanks!

Posted by Hustler - Sat Sep 17 2016 07:12

Still would not give Nvidia any money for a 1060 because of their cynical, market manipulating removal of the SLI bridge.

It really does show them at their very worst.
null
YouTube logo
MSI MPG Velox 100R Chassis Review

October 14 2021 | 15:04

In line with recent changes to data protection legislation in the UK and Europe we would like to direct you to our updated Privacy Policy here.