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Zotac AMP GTX 1060 6GB carried me for 5 years and still going strong... anyway FU Nvidia edit.- OC MSI Afterburner- Core Clock 150 MHz- Memory Clock 500Mhz Cyberpunk 2077 with FidelityFX "Static" ingame option crancked UP to 80% it can do 35 to 40 fps on 1440p (just some info if someone with a 1060 6gb is desperate enough ^^)
"A good price for a 1060 would be around 100$".. Have you looked at ebay any time recently? There's NO 1060s below 300$, and that's just the 3GB version.. for the 6GB version you're looking more at 400$. Even 970TI go for 250$+ at the moment. People are really desperate, apparently.
Yup, same boat. I thought to myself: "Hey, the 1060 6GB is still pretty good, but It's starting to show It's age. I'm gonna upgrade to the RTX 3070. That's up one tier and 2 gens!". Paper Launch: Allow me to introduce myself.
@@GamersNexus they somewhat tried to give us good prices with the 30 series at least compared to turing. But now with tariffs even 3080 at msrp is more like 800-900 dollars. Not to mention a 3070 Is going for 1100-1500 bucks on ebay. They will definitely not try lower prices again. They somewhat tried and now the scalpers and retailers are upping the prices and making money nvidia is like “wait thats money WE should be making!”
@@GamersNexus Never had the honor, but my 1060 is still serving in the htpc I gave my parents and my 1080 is now in my brother's PC. Pascal just refuse to die, we can say it knows how to work "under pressure"... I know... terrible joke. Greetings to Snowflake from my cat Meatball :-)
Actually, 2017 and beginning of 2018 1060 also weren't that cheap due to mining craze. But still way cheaper than now, 400 instead of regular 320-350€.
@lucky m3x they are good, I just don't think the performance increase is worth the price increase. A rtx 3060 is a good card, I just think it should be either better or cheaper.
Too bad I can’t sell mine and get a better card for a reasonable price. Glad I bought one in 2016. Most expensive video card I ever bought so far and now it’s as if I bought a very premium card because of the price increase. Haha
my gtx 970 g1 gmaing THAT IHAVE SINCE NOVEMBER 2014 still runs evrything at max settings 1440p 30+ fps(which is same perfomance as gtx 1060). Dont beleive me? See my videos for proof !
im glad i got my 5700xt when i did as the prices are crazy at the moment. i really want a 3070ti or if the prices were better a 3080 but its not gonna happen as the pirces are never gonna drop as people are willing to pay that so companies wont change and probably sold them directly to farms
@@djsubliminalreeve i would be happy even to get hands on a RTX 3060 as its selling for 1500$ in my country. For now 1060 is all I have but it does it's job well and I love him.
@@jc.1191 I got 2 left from my old mining rig when you could mine with 4gb cards. Nowadays they are mining ravencoin, but it's just not very profitable. I used to have 8 of them.
@@jc.1191 hes prolly located on the otherside of the earth, have u upgraded now 3 months later? I sold my 1050 ti for $200 and currently using a hd 6850 which i got a few days after for $25 lol. Was considering getting a gt 1030 for $50 but someone bought it for $100 they're selling for like $140 aud retail though
I could not have thought at the time of buying I'd love my 1060 6 GB so so much. It is the best GPU I've ever gotten. And by the looks of it still is the best GPU 5 years later.
Me in 2019: "Can't wait to upgrade to Ampere or RDNA2. We will finally see some competition with price wars between AMD and NVidia" Me in March 2021: "I'm not upgrading until 2022" Here's hoping my 1060 6GB won't kick the bucket by then.
AdoredTV said quite the opposite 1060 performance-wise was almost entry level when compared to late tier offerings for that generation. Nvidia played a huge game of market segmentation with the 10 series 16 segments in the 10 series vs just 8 segments in the 900 series at least as far as desktop cards went.
I've had the 1060 6GB for the longest time now. Still holds up perfectly fine for even the newest games at 1080p, who needs anti-aliasing? Cyberpunk was like going back to the early Crysis days! 30FPS baby! Was maaaaybe 300 bucks new? I'm hoping it doesn't go out anytime soon. This crypto-bot buying bullshit needs to go away, or some regulation needs to come into play. Sick of Nvidias lack of innovation and greed, and AMD's desperation to get some of the pie.
Same here, GTX 1060 6GB running 1080p 60fps with no AA. Plays everything just fine on high details. Cyberpunk is the only game that I need to drop the settings to Medium but it's still playable at ~43fps.
TBH the problem is Samsung and TSMC's 8nm and 7nm processes, they are low volume for chips with these die sizes. Dead similar to Intel's perpetually delayed but transistor density equivalent 10nm if price is any indicator.
@@jimtekkit You're totally right. But no AA means shimmering. That's why it sucks there hasn't been something that can preserve sharpness while getting rid of aliasing. And DLSS 2.0 still isn't the solution because it can induce artifacts and leave ghosting in motion...
_Hi Steve,_ _We've reached a critical juncture in the adoption of ray tracing and it has gained industry-wide support from top titles. developers, game engines, APIs, consoles and GPUs._ _As you know Nvidia is all in for ray tracing. GT is important and core to the future of gaming, but it's also one part of our focused R&D efforts on revolutionized video games and creating a better experience for gamers._ _This philosophy is also reflected in developing technologies such as DLSS, reflex and broadcast that offer immense value to customers who are purchasing a GPU. They don't get free GPUs, they work hard for their money, and they keep their GPUs from multiple years._ _Despite all this progress, your GPU reviews and recommendations on the GTX 1060 have continued to focus singularly on rasterization performance and you have largely discounted all of the other technologies we offer gamers._ _It is very clear from your community commentary that you do not see things the same way that we, gamers, and the rest of the industry do. Our founder's editions boards and other Nvidia products are being allocated to media outlets that recognize the the changing landscape of gaming and the features that are important to gamers and anyone buying a GPU today. Be it for gaming, content creation, or studio and streaming._ _GamersNexus should continue to work with our add-in partners to secure GPUs to review. Of course you will still have access to obtain pre-release drivers and press materials, that won't change. We are open to revisiting this in the future should your editorial direction change._ _Brian Dell Rizzo_ _Director of Global PR, GeForce_
I remember getting my 1060 6GB before the crypto boom with my saved up allowance money as a step up from a GT 730, it still serves me well to this day, together with a Core i5-4460 and 16GB of DDR3 RAM.
I'm currently running my old 1060 gpu and like everyone, i'm looking for that rtx unicorn to go on sale.. this video made me.... kinda happy to have my old horse... thanks Gamers Nexus.
@@reisenImperishableNight I found one lucky for $220 cause I think the person was desperate to just sell it lol. But I seen some for around $300 most right now.
Just be happy you have a decent card! I, and Im sure many others, were looking to change low end pc's or build rigs last fall when all new goodies were supposed to come out and wreck last gen hardware regardig performance and price...
I am! My 1080ti's are amazing as far as the long term ROI. They are water-cooled, overclocked, FE cards that hit 2.2 GHz. Thank god I bought them right before the mining craze got them in 2017 for $700 each.
I went from two of the original Titan cards to two GTX 980 cards. I was able to sell the Titans for almost what I paid for them new, and the 980s were very affordable. Unfortunately, I went from 6GB to 4GB. Most games still ran better, even though I had the lower VRAM. It was an interesting time, for sure.
@@MultiAlliot Not only about the 6GB VRAM. That time , miners were hunting for 6GB cards too. The 3GB variant was alot cheaper and has lesser CUDA cores than the 6GB variant.
@@fleurdewin7958 Not really, the 3gb variant was still relevant at the time, tough the DAGfile for Etherium was close to the 3gb limit. Nowadays the DAGfile is bigger than 4gb, so everything under 6gb is useless for mining.
my gtx 970 g1 gmaing THAT IHAVE SINCE NOVEMBER 2014 still runs evrything at max settings 1440p 30+ fps(which is same perfomance as gtx 1060). Dont beleive me? See my videos for proof !
You can’t lol if you sold it for a cheap price then the person would sell it for more. I had someone buy a 1080ti from me and was reselling it for $200 more a couple days later. He lied in his post and everything.
Nothing like a six year stagnation in the gaming GPU market to keep a five year old card relevant enough to revisit it in 2021. Nobody can upgrade their GPU's 'till pricing drops from 700% MSRP for nearly every viable GPU left on the market. $500 every 2-3 years used to keep you up to date.
I bought a 5700 for $300 not long after release because I wasn't convinced that paying $150 more for a 2070 for ray tracing. Glad I listened to myself and the the performance numbers.
@@Prootus if yours struggles could be an issue with your rig air flow or setup in some way the 1060 6gb for me can do 90hz in vr in all titles and using the quest 2 over wifi.
@@Prootus I'm using a b450 steel legend, 32gb ram @3000mhz, AMD 2600 stock. With a noctua nhd14. In a phantek a400 high airflow case. The one gn recommends.
@@Prootus I also redid the thermal paste and thermal pads the card never reaches 71c so it never throttles and I can put a slight oc on it when needed.
? Well, not these past 2 years tho...However, GPU prices went down these past weeks. A 1080ti can be found as low as 450$ in my country. 1080 is from 350$, I got mine 2 months ago for 300$. 1060 goes from 200$ now, rx580 8GB from 300$ as of 3/2022
@@ancientslav4863 not sure if you noticed I made that comment almost a year ago, when the gpu shortages were in full effect and you could not buy anything without spending a fortune. yes, prices are lowering NOW but my comment will not auto-update following current trends... I made it 10 freaking months ago.
The 1060 is the first dedicated GPU I've ever had in a PC. Its such a good card I couldn't be happier. I'm completely fine with 1080p singe monitor gaming and for that it does everything I need
I'm curious to see if the 3060 holds up as well. The 1060 was primarily a 1080p/60 card when it was released, and it still more or less hits that 5.5 years later. The 3060 seems to be primarily either 1080p/144 or 1440p/60. Here's hoping it can still hit those targets in 2026!
I really enjoy these revisit videos to see how the old hardware is holding up but also to see how far we have come since. Great job and keep'em rolling!
Thank you for these revisit videos. These are the type of content missing from tech channels for so long. Its really hard to judge how older GPU's perform compared to newer models due to so many factors such as drivers and game optimizations and other techniques boosting the performance of games over time.
@@Beelzybud if i had a good upgrade path i would totally sell the 2060. But new gpus at decent prices are lacking and for now the 2060 satisfies my gaming needs 🙏
my gtx 970 g1 gmaing THAT IHAVE SINCE NOVEMBER 2014 still runs evrything at max settings 1440p 30+ fps(which is same perfomance as gtx 1060). Dont beleive me? See my videos for proof !
I know you guys put a ridiculous amount of hours into these GPU reviews, as well as everything else you review, I really appreciate the effort. Thank you.
I was running the 3GB 1060 right up until earlier this year. Originally bought it in May of 2017. It was still good for all the games I played. But it became clear in 2020 that my 4 core 4 thread Haswell CPU was pooched for many modern games. Thankfully I was able to find a good used system with a much newer CPU (and faster video card) but I still have much respect for the 1060. The price was great too when I first bought it.
I really wish instead of launching new cards they'd focus on getting existing cards out there in an affordable manor. Also maybe it's time to start bench marking Intel graphics since that seems to be the only non-scalped/mined option available.
Today I got to see both the gtx 710 and gtx 1030 go OOS in multiple places... at this point I'm going to start digging out my old 7900 gs and throw it on ebay.
The reason is because the Pascal GPUs used in the 1060 use a 16nm manufacturing process. The Ampere GPUs used in the 3000 series use an 8nm manufacturing process. Thus they are different factories. The 16nm factory(ies) were doing something else, and now they've re-tasked them with making GPUs again. To actually make 3000 series cards at a higher rate, they need more 8nm factories. My question now is why not make 2000 series cards, which used Turing GPUs on a 12nm manufacturing process, instead of the older 1000 series card.
@@riusu8672 yeah that was a terrible move, what the hell were they thinking I would have considered getting one with my 1700, but after hearing that, I got a 5600 XT instead
Finally my card :D By now you have to drop settings in newer games and some may not get 60 FPS at all, but it's still a extremly good card and I'm not to sad that I'm gonna be stuck with it for a while longer until new "mid range" GPUs are finally available :)
Same here. This just shows how good Pascal was. After all these years, the midrange card is still ok at gaming and it had a lower msrp at launch. I'm probably going to pick up a 3060 TI once things normalise.
I have an RX 580 8GB which performs very similarly to the GTX 1060. It's been four years of ownership and the thing hasn't missed a beat! So fortunate I picked it up at MSRP before the ridiculousness of 2020/2021.
As a owner of a 1060 6gb I thank you for this content. I wonder if game developers will continue to cater to the low cards knowing how the gpu market is.
Who said there good value bar the 3090, which if have a workload that can use the 24gb but doesn't need double floating point calculations it's pretty good compared quadros etc
my gtx 970 g1 gmaing THAT IHAVE SINCE NOVEMBER 2014 still runs evrything at max settings 1440p 30+ fps(which is same perfomance as gtx 1060). Dont beleive me? See my videos for proof !
Definitely a great card for its time, outside of the $300 Founder's Edition scam pricing used to artificially inflate AIB MSRP's. Still think the RX480/RX580 ended up being the better card in the long run, but the GTX 1060 certainly was very good if you got it for a good price.
I've recently bought a GTX 1060 3Gb. It may be a 5 year old GPU, but coming from a GTX 760 it's an incredible upgrade. I'll hold on to it until things become affordable in my country.
I got so lucky to get a 1060 when it was still new, it's been chugging along quite nicely so far. The only games I play that my 1060 really struggles with is Cyberpunk
@@MrBlackspoon that game is broken AF bro.....There are games like metro exodus and COD2019 so many more in fact that look better and run better on ultra settings ..... it's not the GPU it's the game ......i am a 1060 owner myself I'm still rocking that GPU in 2021
I bought a 1060 6gb back in 2018 to replace a 2gb rx 460. I have yet to regret this. I ALSO have a 2070 Super in limbo that I didn't pay bad scalper prices for...but which has yet to show after months. Some of that is due to the Suez being blocked, and it traveling by slow boat...
@@smugmode "Theoretically"... just don't do it, it's not worth it. Laptops are not designed to work under super heavy loads 24hrs/7days. It would just kill your laptop in couple of days/weeks...
What a time to be alive, when 5 year old hardware is still worth talking about. I'd be curious to see a polaris retrospective, but I guess there are so few of them comparably that's it's not as useful to talk about
I just upgraded an RX 460 4GB to a 5700 XT last November. It still did really well in most games, I could usually get 1080p/60FPS (or near 60) at reasonable settings. 5700 XT obviously blows it out of the water, but I was only mildly unhappy with my 460 and most of the reason I upgraded was because the 5700XT was the last AMD card that will run on Windows 7 and I'm keeping that OS until every piece of hardware that it can run on has broken.
GTX 1060 was one of my favorite cards.. still have a few somewhere in my lab. A good 1080p Card, cheap and robust.. help up well... Good all around Card and still usable today if you don't go crazy with the setting
I actually just bought an upgrade for my 1060 6gb - I bought a 2nd hand Titan X for £349 + cleaned it + new paste + £15 for a metal back plate - runs very well. Crap from a dollar to performance ratio - but actually a decent upgrade as I now game at higher Res it is about +40% across the board and handles higher res much better. My boy has the 1060 6gb as a hand me down. I am still shocked by the mess that is the current GPU market. I am not buying a PALIT RTX 3060 for £500...Utter crap - I only paid £275 for my ASUS Turbo 1060 6gb NEW - 4 years ago - Inflation is not 100% over 4 years, so the market is a combination of hype, scarcity, miners and scalpers. Absolutely perfect storm affecting GPU's - I think I am fairly representative of people gaming and I cannot stomach £500 for a GPU when I have wife/ kids / house etc. I can pay £350 for a treat / birthday / bonus comes in every 4 or so years - and I upgrade other things across the other years.
I'm still rocking my Gigabyte extreme gaming 1060 6GB card. Gigabyte made several versions of this card. Luckily I got the 1060 with full rgb lighting and backplate with a boost clock of 1850mhz. It's the monster one that literally takes up like 3 PCI slots in my PC. I'm pretty sure it's the biggest 1060 they made. Even better with Nvidia's regular driver updates and win 10 performance improvements this card is running better than ever. Case in point...I played Cyber Punk @ 2160x1440 (yep you read that right) @ 40 - 50 fps all day. My benchmark for SOTR @ 2160x1440 is also 45 - 50 fps on medium/high settings. Anything above 30 fps is fine by me so I have no complaints there. Learn how to optimize your PC and you too can achieve similar results with this old card. Still wish I would've got the 1070 which I think should be the GOAT when it comes to all around price to performance ratio. Would've gotten the 2060 super by now but who saw the pandemic coming? Certainly not me...☹️👎
@@moriyokiri3229 dude its referencing the ludicrous prices they are making up, like the crazy prices that scalpers put aka they scalp before the scalpers.... O_o
@@mikesilver9285 you need to change aibs with supply and retail chains. They generally actually sell at msrp and in fsct its one or the few ways to get them at msrp.... but you gatta take a litteral lottery for that honor
@@mikeymaiku aibs like asus, msi, etc have set higher prices even before tariifs in the states.... im currently in europe and would have to buy at a higher price because over here theres always tariffs... check out the prices of the 3060 before they even get to retail..... they are over 150 to 200 above msrp and then retail put an extra fee on top.... and i would love to know how many ppl actually bought a new gpu in current market for msrp compared to the ones that bought it at a higher price..... itll be like the current separation of wealth in the world the 1% that got lucky then everyone else
Surprising what some of the cards in the last 4 years can do. I have a 1050 Ti as my lowest tier card and it surprises me all the time. I'm also amazed at my RX 580 running 60FPS stable at 4k in Minecraft. I know it's Minecraft, but still Native 4K butter smooth.
GTX 1060 has increased in price in the UK from £100 in September to £250-£300 in April, that's not USD, it's GBP. It's crazy. I used them for the last PC builds for my customers, I can't justify to spend over £300 for 1070, it's just nuts!
at the time I spent about 600€ for my 1070 strix...now it costs way more. I can't even understand why, and if the pandemic is a culprit in this price increase or not
the thing with the 1060, especially the 6gb variant, is that they were first of all an amazing value. you got great performance for an amazingly low price. but also that they run pretty much everything at decent settings 1080p up to this day so there is really no need to throw away money to upgrade the system. I also think that many people who run a gtx 1060 is people like me who have an old system which worked fine but around the time of the 1060 did our systems start to strougle in games. so we went out to buy the best value card we could find that doesn't get too bottle necked by our old cpu. my upgrade was from an ati hd6870 which really didn't run the modern titles at the time and by shear luck did I find a 1060 on a black friday flash sale for the low low price of 1500 swedish kronor which is just under $180 and that is an amazing price since all our computer components generally sell for 20-35% over the price you pay for components in the us.
My favorite part about the 1060 is that it somehow is harder to find a decent price on it vs rx 570 or 580 yet it not being as good as either in many scenarios I've seen. The 6gb is hard to find on the used markets and it's about comparable to the 570 and 80.
I have both 1060 6GB and 580 4GB I'm getting around 60 FPS in 1080p sith FSR on high settings. I'm happy AF. I broke free from the urge of having the best. Now if it's working enough them I'm happy 😁. And yeah I can afford 3080 at the current prices just fine but nonsense for me.
Honestly that reduction of CUDA cores was scummy on Nvidia's part, but that 3GB frame buffer is far more limiting than 5%-10% lower performance these days.
"I'll just get something crappy, i'll swap out soon with an RTX something and this will just be used in the media PC, 3GB of VRAM is plenty for now" It seemed like a good idea at the time. :
GTX 1060 6GB owner here since day 1 launch....Best investment I've ever did, still using it to this day, it is still a beast as it was all those years ago
I'm running a 1060 with an i7 4790 cpu and it still kick ass. Even an 11th gen core i5 is almost the same as a 4th gen i7. What is happening with these companies? There is absolute no value to anything they make anymore. It's like YOU should be thankful they are selling you their stuff. Like you are the one lucky to give them money.
I've found in newer games medium settings at 1080p will typically give perfectly good performance(at worst I get 70fps) on my 1650 Super, which I'm told is of comparable performance to this card. Also keep in mind, I'm not much for appearances, I'm just worried about frame rate. I'll often turn off shadows and depth of field in order to get extra frames and would still be using my old 1050 had the thing not got to the point not being able to get a stable framerate at 1080p low and all effects off.
Consoles held back innovation. When you design a game to sell across the board, you cater to most common hardware. The new consoles should help us all enjoy prettier games, and more advancements. I'm a PCMR, and I understand the game makers need to make money. But it does suck.
@@th3R0b0t when consoles released in 2014 PC hardware on STEAM charts weren't much better.... you guys also forget you have low end hardware as a gigantic portion of the "PCMR"
@@th3R0b0t Good points. Was curious what your reasons or reasons as to why consoles held back innovation? Are you talking about software or hardware innovation>?
@@jaywilbur515 I would side mainly on hardware. It's been the same story last couple of console revisions. Crysis at the time it came out, crippled PCs. The consoles I seen try and play it, were constantly dipping below 30FPS. That game put the hurt on everything. (Quick search says, Console release was 4 years after PC release. At that point, Crysis on PC could be current hardware. But Console was 5-6 year old hardware.) Sim games are the only games that push limits. (read: Not arcade racers) Asobo has said they expect to port FS2020 to the Series X. They claim that it will have smooth constant 30fps. I'm curious what it looks like and plays like. People have referenced FS2020 as the new Crysis, cause it renders so much on screen, it's hard on hardware. But, the above, is my reasons; I can only name 2 games that cross-released, that pushed beyond the scope of console hardware. Most other game makers, they kept everything coded for lowest common denominator.
@@th3R0b0t What the fuck does popularity and innovation have in common ? New things are rarely popular even if they are better. WoW is the best example. Way better MMORPGs were made yet none ever made it to the top of popularity charts.
I bought the 1060 6GB GDDR5 model a few year ago. Very happy with the card. Zotac is the brand, and it's a "shorty" model that fits into my M-ATX case. Excellent fans with ball-bearings. Stays around 60 Celcius on high / 1080 most games. CyberPunk 2077 taxes the card more and I get around 72 Celcius. Xeon E5 V3 2692 with 64GB DDR4 memory. Just bought a 3060 Dual OC locally, waiting for the delivery but look forward to the upgrade. The 1060 will go into the mining rig. :) TL;DR: Love my 1060 6GB GDDR5!
@@RocketStudios another channel posted a video just the other month doing a 770 revisit and they concluded that theyre good cards but will get more milage if they're the versions with more ram.
as usual , a very good informative video, i have both the GTX 1060 6Gb and an RTX 2060 Super on different RIGS , one with 2 Tb of games on an HDD and one with 2Tb of games on an SSD , one to play prior to 2019 games , and the other to play 2020 games and beyond, i like it like that ...
Great discussion on the 'no need to upgrade' & e-waste! Maybe to help the planet (and our bank accounts) the best thing is to keep this good old 1080p display and not fall into the 4k trap. Gaming at 1080p with good visuals and frame rate is actually pretty cheap today.
He's complaining about namie schemes at one point but oh my God I can't figure out AMD whatsoever I can't tell you if that card is from 2001 or from 2028. PS I'm using an R9 390 8GB
So it's a year later than this video was recorded haha (May 2022). I have to say that I don't game but been hanging on to my 1060 3GB card. It is getting a little long in the tooth since I do use it with 4 monitors. I found the conclusion spot-on with pricing. Get it for $100. That's exactly what I paid for it in 2019. In fact, I got 2 so I could run 2 graphics cards and up to 8 monitors. That didn't work out well, but my neighbor ended up needing a a card in 2021, and guess who hooked them up with their spare for $100 ;) Anyway, I'm grateful for all the videos you put out. Thanks GN!
At last, a review and comparison of the *60 cards that isn't just complaining about the market conditions and somehow making that the 3060's fault. Well done GN.
RX580 a little beast, especially the 8gb. Current prices reflect how good these cards are. Thought I was smart flipping one for double what I paid for it. Now a few months later prices up another 4 or 5 times!
This is a very well timed review! I have had 1060 6gb for 3 years now and Cyberpunk and RDR2 filled me with insecurites about its' perfomance. But to think about it - both of these games no longer interest me and were more or less adequate with lower settings for a playthrough or two. The rest of the games that occupy most of my gaming time run at 80+ or 144+ fps on this card with maxed out settings and I don't look for any AAA titles in near future. Huang and Lisa can chill off with their $330/$480 "midrange" offerings for now. I'll wait for another $250 card that's actually in stock and games that would justify it before allocating any money.
Watch our GTX 970 revisit here: ruclips.net/video/bhLlHU_z55U/видео.html
Or our GTX 980 Ti revisit here: ruclips.net/video/s11U9eGRsFk/видео.html
For the latest discussion on new GPUs, our RTX 3060 review remains the most relevant: ruclips.net/video/3C-RoDtqdJ8/видео.html
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6:38 Thank you for the GTA 5 benchmarks.
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Zotac AMP GTX 1060 6GB carried me for 5 years and still going strong... anyway FU Nvidia
edit.- OC MSI Afterburner- Core Clock 150 MHz- Memory Clock 500Mhz
Cyberpunk 2077 with FidelityFX "Static" ingame option crancked UP to 80% it can do 35 to 40 fps on 1440p
(just some info if someone with a 1060 6gb is desperate enough ^^)
"A good price for a 1060 would be around 100$".. Have you looked at ebay any time recently? There's NO 1060s below 300$, and that's just the 3GB version.. for the 6GB version you're looking more at 400$. Even 970TI go for 250$+ at the moment. People are really desperate, apparently.
All GPUs are limited editions these days, LOL
Me being a 1060 6gb owner: Gonna upgrade every two gens
2021: Nope
I bought the 1080 right when the 1080ti came out and bitcoin was crashing. Great price, and it's still hard to replace.
@@TheBetterGame haha you and me both. Now I wish I had splurged on the ti. Oh well.
Old 290x owner. Paid 90 bucks canadian for a 1060 strix model. Best investment ever until i got a 3070 a week after i ordered it
Same here with my RX480. We shoulda bought 1080s when they were cheaper
Yup, same boat. I thought to myself: "Hey, the 1060 6GB is still pretty good, but It's starting to show It's age. I'm gonna upgrade to the RTX 3070. That's up one tier and 2 gens!".
Paper Launch: Allow me to introduce myself.
The GTX 10 series... the gen too good to be true... Nvidia will never repeat that error again.
Definitely feels like that with the GTX 1080 Ti!
@@GamersNexus they somewhat tried to give us good prices with the 30 series at least compared to turing. But now with tariffs even 3080 at msrp is more like 800-900 dollars. Not to mention a 3070 Is going for 1100-1500 bucks on ebay. They will definitely not try lower prices again. They somewhat tried and now the scalpers and retailers are upping the prices and making money nvidia is like “wait thats money WE should be making!”
@@GamersNexus My second hand 1080Ti still going strong :D
@@GamersNexus Never had the honor, but my 1060 is still serving in the htpc I gave my parents and my 1080 is now in my brother's PC. Pascal just refuse to die, we can say it knows how to work "under pressure"... I know... terrible joke.
Greetings to Snowflake from my cat Meatball :-)
@Monochromatik-Vision Unfortunately it's not a driver issue...
Ah yes, when the 60 series cards were actually affordable!
And good
@lucky m3x well, they are good for mining.
Actually, 2017 and beginning of 2018 1060 also weren't that cheap due to mining craze. But still way cheaper than now, 400 instead of regular 320-350€.
just payed 650€ (779$) for a Vega 64 custom model. its ridiculous
@lucky m3x they are good, I just don't think the performance increase is worth the price increase. A rtx 3060 is a good card, I just think it should be either better or cheaper.
The most ironic thing is a 1060 could be sold for over its retail price 5 years later.
Too bad I can’t sell mine and get a better card for a reasonable price. Glad I bought one in 2016. Most expensive video card I ever bought so far and now it’s as if I bought a very premium card because of the price increase. Haha
Its really disgusting if you think about it.
Can confirm. Used 1060 here now costs nearly as much as mine when I bought it.
my gtx 970 g1 gmaing THAT IHAVE SINCE NOVEMBER 2014 still runs evrything at max settings 1440p 30+ fps(which is same perfomance as gtx 1060). Dont beleive me? See my videos for proof !
with proper use you can get about 2$/day from mining if electricity is reasonably priced. that is why :D
2016,17,18 were golden days for entry level gamers imo. Now it's becoming a really expensive hobby.
When gpu requirements slowed down on games and prices were still okay
I feel like Nvidia and AMD are paying game developers not to optimize their games
Because of those stupid Bitcoin miners and scalpers
im glad i got my 5700xt when i did as the prices are crazy at the moment. i really want a 3070ti or if the prices were better a 3080 but its not gonna happen as the pirces are never gonna drop as people are willing to pay that so companies wont change and probably sold them directly to farms
@@djsubliminalreeve i would be happy even to get hands on a RTX 3060 as its selling for 1500$ in my country. For now 1060 is all I have but it does it's job well and I love him.
Watching this with 1060 6GB, still enough for me.
Watching this with a mobile 1060 6GB lol. Still good
Same, but this card is from 2016 and I hope it stays in one piece 'cause we certainly can't buy a reasonable replacement rn.
Same^^
Mine still holds up but I would really like to upgrade.
@@n-11ordoskirata70 why and to what?
great time to upgrade my 1060
*goes to store*
we only have 1030 & 1050ti..did i go back in time??
Umm. Where is this 1050ti? Cause I really something better than my 1030.
@@jc.1191 I got 2 left from my old mining rig when you could mine with 4gb cards. Nowadays they are mining ravencoin, but it's just not very profitable. I used to have 8 of them.
@@thundereagle4130 I'm looking for one if you wanna sell at real prices, I'm poor lol.
@@jc.1191 hes prolly located on the otherside of the earth, have u upgraded now 3 months later? I sold my 1050 ti for $200 and currently using a hd 6850 which i got a few days after for $25 lol. Was considering getting a gt 1030 for $50 but someone bought it for $100 they're selling for like $140 aud retail though
@@andrewmtgx No, not yet.
Every 1060 owner should be kissing their card every night before bed, be grateful for it in times like this.
I prefer 3080 vs other cards I have :D 1060 is the worst one :D
I'm a little worried what I'd do if it breaks.
@@jkepic25 says the spoiled rich kid
100% doing that right now. The plan was to upgrade to the 3060 but 2021 said "No, you won't". My 1060 is the most cared for object at home.
Just replaced my thermal paste
I could not have thought at the time of buying I'd love my 1060 6 GB so so much.
It is the best GPU I've ever gotten.
And by the looks of it still is the best GPU 5 years later.
Same.
I bought mine with Alienware Aurora R7 in 2018. Still using it.
Rx 580 is good years later too
In hindsight I wish I'd gotten the 1070 but overall I'm happy with the 1060 purchase
pretty good indeed
Me in 2019: "Can't wait to upgrade to Ampere or RDNA2. We will finally see some competition with price wars between AMD and NVidia"
Me in March 2021: "I'm not upgrading until 2022"
Here's hoping my 1060 6GB won't kick the bucket by then.
nobody's upgrading 'till 2030 at this rate.
Give the poor thing a repaste and it should last years to come.
I'm not upgrading now either.
@@zourin8804 Cards are selling well so some people are certainly upgrading, not me of course.
considering its now 2023, till 2025 before upgrading?
Ah, the from the time when a XX60 series card was actually midrange, and not "whatever the f*ck we can stuff into the $200-$400 market."
AdoredTV said quite the opposite 1060 performance-wise was almost entry level when compared to late tier offerings for that generation. Nvidia played a huge game of market segmentation with the 10 series 16 segments in the 10 series vs just 8 segments in the 900 series at least as far as desktop cards went.
I've had the 1060 6GB for the longest time now. Still holds up perfectly fine for even the newest games at 1080p, who needs anti-aliasing? Cyberpunk was like going back to the early Crysis days! 30FPS baby! Was maaaaybe 300 bucks new? I'm hoping it doesn't go out anytime soon. This crypto-bot buying bullshit needs to go away, or some regulation needs to come into play. Sick of Nvidias lack of innovation and greed, and AMD's desperation to get some of the pie.
Same here, GTX 1060 6GB running 1080p 60fps with no AA. Plays everything just fine on high details. Cyberpunk is the only game that I need to drop the settings to Medium but it's still playable at ~43fps.
I *NEED* anti aliasing.
My eyes are too good to suffer such a graphical disgrace.
TBH the problem is Samsung and TSMC's 8nm and 7nm processes, they are low volume for chips with these die sizes. Dead similar to Intel's perpetually delayed but transistor density equivalent 10nm if price is any indicator.
@@lordfenix17 AA makes everything look blurry and it's a waste of processing power. Not my thing.
@@jimtekkit You're totally right. But no AA means shimmering. That's why it sucks there hasn't been something that can preserve sharpness while getting rid of aliasing. And DLSS 2.0 still isn't the solution because it can induce artifacts and leave ghosting in motion...
You better be careful Steve, Nvidia might blacklist GN for not reporting on the 1060's Ray tracing performance.
No ray tracing basically
Lol
Don't forget DLSS
_Hi Steve,_
_We've reached a critical juncture in the adoption of ray tracing and it has gained industry-wide support from top titles. developers, game engines, APIs, consoles and GPUs._
_As you know Nvidia is all in for ray tracing. GT is important and core to the future of gaming, but it's also one part of our focused R&D efforts on revolutionized video games and creating a better experience for gamers._
_This philosophy is also reflected in developing technologies such as DLSS, reflex and broadcast that offer immense value to customers who are purchasing a GPU. They don't get free GPUs, they work hard for their money, and they keep their GPUs from multiple years._
_Despite all this progress, your GPU reviews and recommendations on the GTX 1060 have continued to focus singularly on rasterization performance and you have largely discounted all of the other technologies we offer gamers._
_It is very clear from your community commentary that you do not see things the same way that we, gamers, and the rest of the industry do. Our founder's editions boards and other Nvidia products are being allocated to media outlets that recognize the the changing landscape of gaming and the features that are important to gamers and anyone buying a GPU today. Be it for gaming, content creation, or studio and streaming._
_GamersNexus should continue to work with our add-in partners to secure GPUs to review. Of course you will still have access to obtain pre-release drivers and press materials, that won't change. We are open to revisiting this in the future should your editorial direction change._
_Brian Dell Rizzo_
_Director of Global PR, GeForce_
lmao
I remember getting my 1060 back in November 2017. Good times. The card shredded most of what I played and it still does well for me to this day.
I remember getting my 1060 6GB before the crypto boom with my saved up allowance money as a step up from a GT 730, it still serves me well to this day, together with a Core i5-4460 and 16GB of DDR3 RAM.
I'm currently running my old 1060 gpu and like everyone, i'm looking for that rtx unicorn to go on sale.. this video made me.... kinda happy to have my old horse... thanks Gamers Nexus.
and im looking for a 1060 6gb for under 300 and havent found one lol
@@reisenImperishableNight I found one lucky for $220 cause I think the person was desperate to just sell it lol. But I seen some for around $300 most right now.
@@ahoyjay8775 I PURCHASED A 3GB ONE FOR 295 LOL
So basically i should just stick with my 1080ti this generation....again.
@UCA-43xMoW4GuhRcn4KrShgg put a780ti in a rig of a friend of me (r5 3600 16gb 3200mhz and 780ti) shes totally happy with it
@@bradhaines3142 I don't think I'll be upgrading my 1080Ti until 60-series XD
Just be happy you have a decent card! I, and Im sure many others, were looking to change low end pc's or build rigs last fall when all new goodies were supposed to come out and wreck last gen hardware regardig performance and price...
I am! My 1080ti's are amazing as far as the long term ROI. They are water-cooled, overclocked, FE cards that hit 2.2 GHz. Thank god I bought them right before the mining craze got them in 2017 for $700 each.
I swear that card is such an anomaly. It's value just doesn't drop.
Still regretting my old decision of "Why would I need 6 gb of VRAM?"
I went from two of the original Titan cards to two GTX 980 cards. I was able to sell the Titans for almost what I paid for them new, and the 980s were very affordable. Unfortunately, I went from 6GB to 4GB. Most games still ran better, even though I had the lower VRAM. It was an interesting time, for sure.
Well it wasn't so obvious considering that two previos generations: GTX760 and GTX960 did not make use of 4Gb at all.
So true if i had 6 gig version i wont be looking for an upgrade right now
@@MultiAlliot Not only about the 6GB VRAM. That time , miners were hunting for 6GB cards too. The 3GB variant was alot cheaper and has lesser CUDA cores than the 6GB variant.
@@fleurdewin7958 Not really, the 3gb variant was still relevant at the time, tough the DAGfile for Etherium was close to the 3gb limit. Nowadays the DAGfile is bigger than 4gb, so everything under 6gb is useless for mining.
"People having a soul in GPU seller market"
- Best joke of 2021
I sold my HD7870 for ~$120 dollars to a kid in 2014. I like to think it was his best deal ever.
my gtx 970 g1 gmaing THAT IHAVE SINCE NOVEMBER 2014 still runs evrything at max settings 1440p 30+ fps(which is same perfomance as gtx 1060). Dont beleive me? See my videos for proof !
Unfortunately buying a 1060 6gb for $100 dollars is pure fantasy today! Let's hope the China crypto mining crackdown results in a GPU Tsunami!
@@shredderorokusaki3013 Playing at 30 fps isn't a flex. Games aren't even enjoyable at that level
You can’t lol if you sold it for a cheap price then the person would sell it for more. I had someone buy a 1080ti from me and was reselling it for $200 more a couple days later. He lied in his post and everything.
Nothing like a six year stagnation in the gaming GPU market to keep a five year old card relevant enough to revisit it in 2021. Nobody can upgrade their GPU's 'till pricing drops from 700% MSRP for nearly every viable GPU left on the market. $500 every 2-3 years used to keep you up to date.
Wow, its already 5 years old, feels like 2 years ago when I bought it
I feel you. I bought a 2070S in 2019 and it feels like I bought it a couple months ago.
@@czbrat I bought my 1060 in 2016 and it feels like it was yesterday
@@arithmetic7105 go to sleep and say it felt like it was 2 days ago
Bought a 5700XT for $400 in June 2020, and kicked myself when Ampere was announced. How little did I know how lucky I was.
i didnt take that for 300$ because i thought ''wait for next gen'' and stuck on my r9 390..
oh how dumb i was.
Yeah, I felt the same about my 2070super I bought in March 2020. Strange times we live in
bought a 5600xt in november after the horrible 6800xt and 3070 launches, so glad I did.
feel the same way about my 2060 super I bought in May 2020
I bought a 5700 for $300 not long after release because I wasn't convinced that paying $150 more for a 2070 for ray tracing. Glad I listened to myself and the the performance numbers.
1060 owners have gotten a lot of mileage out of it.
Works in all vr games at 90 fps even with the quest 2 over wifi with added encoding still 90 fps it amazing
@@greengamerguy623 Hard to believe that, sometimes I even have trouble with the first gen quest performance and quest 2 is much higher resolution.
@@Prootus if yours struggles could be an issue with your rig air flow or setup in some way the 1060 6gb for me can do 90hz in vr in all titles and using the quest 2 over wifi.
@@Prootus I'm using a b450 steel legend, 32gb ram @3000mhz, AMD 2600 stock. With a noctua nhd14. In a phantek a400 high airflow case. The one gn recommends.
@@Prootus I also redid the thermal paste and thermal pads the card never reaches 71c so it never throttles and I can put a slight oc on it when needed.
"3080 priced 1060 doesn't exist, it can't hurt you"
3080 priced 1060:
when a 1080 ti is going higher than a 3060ti that outperform it-
? Well, not these past 2 years tho...However, GPU prices went down these past weeks. A 1080ti can be found as low as 450$ in my country. 1080 is from 350$, I got mine 2 months ago for 300$. 1060 goes from 200$ now, rx580 8GB from 300$ as of 3/2022
@@ancientslav4863 not sure if you noticed I made that comment almost a year ago, when the gpu shortages were in full effect and you could not buy anything without spending a fortune. yes, prices are lowering NOW but my comment will not auto-update following current trends... I made it 10 freaking months ago.
The 1060 is the first dedicated GPU I've ever had in a PC. Its such a good card I couldn't be happier. I'm completely fine with 1080p singe monitor gaming and for that it does everything I need
I’m so close to doing the same
I'm curious to see if the 3060 holds up as well. The 1060 was primarily a 1080p/60 card when it was released, and it still more or less hits that 5.5 years later.
The 3060 seems to be primarily either 1080p/144 or 1440p/60. Here's hoping it can still hit those targets in 2026!
I want to go up to 1440p 144hz.
@@blueninjanoname7338 You gotta drop big money on a beefy GPU
@@TheMrPandabeast 3070 should do it?
I sold mine to a buddy for $150 this year. I bought it for $100 last year. He could flip it for a yacht now.
Win win 🤔
If you had held on to it and sold it now, you might be able to buy a yacht! 😅
@@64BBernard I’ve got my 5600X and 3060 Ti. Who needs a leaky boat?
You sold it to your "buddy" for more than you paid for it???
@@baronsengir187 duh? I could have sold it on eBay for $200 (holy hell they’re $300 now) and he’d have nothing. Seems fair to me
My gpu suddenly became "current" again
Imagine just waking up out of coma after 6 years to see this video.
I imagine this pandemic thing would be more shocking to most people...
@@clykke Don't ruin the joke.
yes 4.7 years = 6
@@Ginto_O The Pascal GPU architecture was announced in March 2014. So, 7 years?
@@philipcooper8297 and Cyberpunk 2077 was announced in 2012.
I really enjoy these revisit videos to see how the old hardware is holding up but also to see how far we have come since. Great job and keep'em rolling!
Just bought one for $80 CAD ($60).
Glad to have the ol' reliable 1060 still with me in these turbulent times.
Thank you for these revisit videos. These are the type of content missing from tech channels for so long. Its really hard to judge how older GPU's perform compared to newer models due to so many factors such as drivers and game optimizations and other techniques boosting the performance of games over time.
Agreed it can put things into perspective much more clearly.
You know there's a GPU issue when most TechRUclipsrs are doing Flashback review.
Got a 2060 for $270 used back in September before all prices went to hell. I am definitely holding on to it as long as I can!
Maybe you should sell it. How rare is it that you could sell a video card for more than you paid for it.
@@Beelzybud if i had a good upgrade path i would totally sell the 2060. But new gpus at decent prices are lacking and for now the 2060 satisfies my gaming needs 🙏
I got a 1070 about a year ago for $220 and now I'm seeing 1070s for $500 and $600
I got a 2080ti yesterday from my friend for $200 lmao
@@joshuagollaher9614 god bless your friend 🙏
Crazy times! Revisit of these old cards is actually more interesting than watching xth review of different RTX model.
RX580 seems to have aged a bit better. I would have liked to see that in every graph as they were head to head back then and many recommend the 1060.
Try using any productivity apps like resolve or premier
launched with an MSRP of $250
at least this is a card you can get at MSRP nowadays
lol
@@bradhaines3142 ill sell ya one for half that
@@bradhaines3142 good man
my gtx 970 g1 gmaing THAT IHAVE SINCE NOVEMBER 2014 still runs evrything at max settings 1440p 30+ fps(which is same perfomance as gtx 1060). Dont beleive me? See my videos for proof !
@@shredderorokusaki3013 who?
@@InterstellarCloudd MINE VIDEOS SEE THEM.
I know you guys put a ridiculous amount of hours into these GPU reviews, as well as everything else you review, I really appreciate the effort. Thank you.
When you happy that you owned a GTX 1060 6gb model almost five years ago...
I was running the 3GB 1060 right up until earlier this year. Originally bought it in May of 2017. It was still good for all the games I played. But it became clear in 2020 that my 4 core 4 thread Haswell CPU was pooched for many modern games. Thankfully I was able to find a good used system with a much newer CPU (and faster video card) but I still have much respect for the 1060. The price was great too when I first bought it.
My 1060 6gb is still pulling its weight, such a good lil card!
I really wish instead of launching new cards they'd focus on getting existing cards out there in an affordable manor. Also maybe it's time to start bench marking Intel graphics since that seems to be the only non-scalped/mined option available.
Intel is brining the triple threat: CPU, GPU and space heater
Today I got to see both the gtx 710 and gtx 1030 go OOS in multiple places... at this point I'm going to start digging out my old 7900 gs and throw it on ebay.
The reason is because the Pascal GPUs used in the 1060 use a 16nm manufacturing process. The Ampere GPUs used in the 3000 series use an 8nm manufacturing process. Thus they are different factories. The 16nm factory(ies) were doing something else, and now they've re-tasked them with making GPUs again.
To actually make 3000 series cards at a higher rate, they need more 8nm factories.
My question now is why not make 2000 series cards, which used Turing GPUs on a 12nm manufacturing process, instead of the older 1000 series card.
intel already put its foot in a coffin by making their cards not work with amd processors.
@@riusu8672 yeah that was a terrible move, what the hell were they thinking
I would have considered getting one with my 1700, but after hearing that, I got a 5600 XT instead
Finally my card :D
By now you have to drop settings in newer games and some may not get 60 FPS at all, but it's still a extremly good card and I'm not to sad that I'm gonna be stuck with it for a while longer until new "mid range" GPUs are finally available :)
Same here. This just shows how good Pascal was. After all these years, the midrange card is still ok at gaming and it had a lower msrp at launch. I'm probably going to pick up a 3060 TI once things normalise.
970 is in a same boat it's almost 7 years old and gets like 5-10 fps less than 1060.Vram is a problem though it's causing problems now.
My brain in 2020 : I’ll upgrade soon
Year later : I’ll upgrade soon
Now : uhhh, oop
I have an RX 580 8GB which performs very similarly to the GTX 1060. It's been four years of ownership and the thing hasn't missed a beat! So fortunate I picked it up at MSRP before the ridiculousness of 2020/2021.
Just plugged in my 3060 after going from a 970 to a 1060, man that 1060 started showing its age with these new games
same lmao
When I get a 3060ti ( I said when) I will give my 1060 to my son to build his first pc. Best graphics card I have owned.
Facts. One of the GOATs
@Darth Wheazius I bought a 1070 a few years ago for £285 and sold it for £285. I'd keep it if I was playing 1080p.
It’s kind of amazing that anything around the Pascal/Polaris generation is still relevant today, almost 5 years later
well these are crap anyway so no miners want them . what if they release 1080ti and 2080 again :P
1080Ti owner here. I bought it used in December (2020) for my first build. Does everything I need it to
@@mythic017 1080ti is still a beast though...
How is that amazing? That's stagnation.
@@TheCMajor9th I play all my games with a 1060 3gb without problems. Sounds like you have other issues.
As a owner of a 1060 6gb I thank you for this content. I wonder if game developers will continue to cater to the low cards knowing how the gpu market is.
нет
I run the RX 580 from AMD. This is fine. I appreciate it being included in some tests like the cyberpunk one. Thanks GN
well run better then 1060....i remember in 2020 hardware unboxed made a comparison and it was 11% faster on average
People who lauded 3000 series as great value really had short memories...
Who said there good value bar the 3090, which if have a workload that can use the 24gb but doesn't need double floating point calculations it's pretty good compared quadros etc
TBH it was mostly for RTX3070 for advertised MSRP. Alas reality is very different.
my gtx 970 g1 gmaing THAT IHAVE SINCE NOVEMBER 2014 still runs evrything at max settings 1440p 30+ fps(which is same perfomance as gtx 1060). Dont beleive me? See my videos for proof !
@airport2000 Exactly my point sir.
People are going to use the scalper market to justify prices of next gen :(
Next revisit the GOAT that is the 1080ti, had it since launch and im still able to play in 4k if i drop some settings here and there.
It's already in the charts... ?
@@GamersNexus Oops my bad! i should shut up and watch before i comment next time, great work as always Steve.
I am still running a 1080ti in my VR rig. It works great!
I really appreciate you guys including 970 in tests, a lot of us are still rolling with 3.5GBs of RAM.
Shoulda bought an R9 390 🙃 but ur still good. There aren't any good games you can't run
No idea why you bought that lol
Definitely a great card for its time, outside of the $300 Founder's Edition scam pricing used to artificially inflate AIB MSRP's. Still think the RX480/RX580 ended up being the better card in the long run, but the GTX 1060 certainly was very good if you got it for a good price.
I've recently bought a GTX 1060 3Gb. It may be a 5 year old GPU, but coming from a GTX 760 it's an incredible upgrade. I'll hold on to it until things become affordable in my country.
What model did you get? I really want one but cant find it
Best graphics card purchase of my life.
bought one brand new when they first came out.
my brother uses it to this day.
Every time My GTX1070 finishes an Iray render, I should have a notification sound of Danny Glovers 'I'm too old for this shit'.
I'm still using a 1060 3gb, and even though it struggles sometimes it does the job
I got so lucky to get a 1060 when it was still new, it's been chugging along quite nicely so far. The only games I play that my 1060 really struggles with is Cyberpunk
Yeah everything runs fine, only cyberpunk sticks in between 35-40 fps
@@MrBlackspoon that game is broken AF bro.....There are games like metro exodus and COD2019 so many more in fact that look better and run better on ultra settings ..... it's not the GPU it's the game ......i am a 1060 owner myself I'm still rocking that GPU in 2021
I bought a 1060 6gb back in 2018 to replace a 2gb rx 460. I have yet to regret this. I ALSO have a 2070 Super in limbo that I didn't pay bad scalper prices for...but which has yet to show after months. Some of that is due to the Suez being blocked, and it traveling by slow boat...
I got a 1060 card for my kid's PC for a great price refurbished. Still going strong!
it’s all about MHs instead of fps these days.
My mobile GTX 1060 6GB @ 75w gets a little over 20Mh/s mining ETH. That's about $50 p/month USD.
@Gameing & Tech just download a software and setup your wallet
@@smugmode
Well, $50 in theoretical dollars. It's a long and lossy process to turn ETH into anything with irl value.
@@smugmode "Theoretically"... just don't do it, it's not worth it. Laptops are not designed to work under super heavy loads 24hrs/7days. It would just kill your laptop in couple of days/weeks...
i get 26 mhs on my laptop, ahhh almost more then the 3060 ;)
What a time to be alive, when 5 year old hardware is still worth talking about.
I'd be curious to see a polaris retrospective, but I guess there are so few of them comparably that's it's not as useful to talk about
I just upgraded an RX 460 4GB to a 5700 XT last November. It still did really well in most games, I could usually get 1080p/60FPS (or near 60) at reasonable settings. 5700 XT obviously blows it out of the water, but I was only mildly unhappy with my 460 and most of the reason I upgraded was because the 5700XT was the last AMD card that will run on Windows 7 and I'm keeping that OS until every piece of hardware that it can run on has broken.
GTX 1060 was one of my favorite cards.. still have a few somewhere in my lab. A good 1080p Card, cheap and robust.. help up well... Good all around Card and still usable today if you don't go crazy with the setting
I actually just bought an upgrade for my 1060 6gb - I bought a 2nd hand Titan X for £349 + cleaned it + new paste + £15 for a metal back plate - runs very well. Crap from a dollar to performance ratio - but actually a decent upgrade as I now game at higher Res it is about +40% across the board and handles higher res much better. My boy has the 1060 6gb as a hand me down. I am still shocked by the mess that is the current GPU market. I am not buying a PALIT RTX 3060 for £500...Utter crap - I only paid £275 for my ASUS Turbo 1060 6gb NEW - 4 years ago - Inflation is not 100% over 4 years, so the market is a combination of hype, scarcity, miners and scalpers. Absolutely perfect storm affecting GPU's - I think I am fairly representative of people gaming and I cannot stomach £500 for a GPU when I have wife/ kids / house etc. I can pay £350 for a treat / birthday / bonus comes in every 4 or so years - and I upgrade other things across the other years.
I'm still rocking my Gigabyte extreme gaming 1060 6GB card. Gigabyte made several versions of this card. Luckily I got the 1060 with full rgb lighting and backplate with a boost clock of 1850mhz. It's the monster one that literally takes up like 3 PCI slots in my PC. I'm pretty sure it's the biggest 1060 they made. Even better with Nvidia's regular driver updates and win 10 performance improvements this card is running better than ever. Case in point...I played Cyber Punk @ 2160x1440 (yep you read that right) @ 40 - 50 fps all day. My benchmark for SOTR @ 2160x1440 is also 45 - 50 fps on medium/high settings. Anything above 30 fps is fine by me so I have no complaints there. Learn how to optimize your PC and you too can achieve similar results with this old card. Still wish I would've got the 1070 which I think should be the GOAT when it comes to all around price to performance ratio. Would've gotten the 2060 super by now but who saw the pandemic coming? Certainly not me...☹️👎
".... 50 or 100 dollars lower".... what a time when aibs charged less now they scalp the prices to be 200+ for each model disregarding scalper/ miners
That’s not scalping.
@@moriyokiri3229 dude its referencing the ludicrous prices they are making up, like the crazy prices that scalpers put aka they scalp before the scalpers.... O_o
@@mikesilver9285 you need to change aibs with supply and retail chains. They generally actually sell at msrp and in fsct its one or the few ways to get them at msrp.... but you gatta take a litteral lottery for that honor
@@mikeymaiku aibs like asus, msi, etc have set higher prices even before tariifs in the states.... im currently in europe and would have to buy at a higher price because over here theres always tariffs... check out the prices of the 3060 before they even get to retail..... they are over 150 to 200 above msrp and then retail put an extra fee on top.... and i would love to know how many ppl actually bought a new gpu in current market for msrp compared to the ones that bought it at a higher price..... itll be like the current separation of wealth in the world the 1% that got lucky then everyone else
I remember being broke af that year I wanted a 1060 so bad lmao 🤣😂😭😪🤧
Surprising what some of the cards in the last 4 years can do. I have a 1050 Ti as my lowest tier card and it surprises me all the time. I'm also amazed at my RX 580 running 60FPS stable at 4k in Minecraft. I know it's Minecraft, but still Native 4K butter smooth.
Still rocking a 1060 on my VR/HTPC in my living room and it pleases me to know how well it still holds up
GTX 1060 has increased in price in the UK from £100 in September to £250-£300 in April, that's not USD, it's GBP. It's crazy. I used them for the last PC builds for my customers, I can't justify to spend over £300 for 1070, it's just nuts!
at the time I spent about 600€ for my 1070 strix...now it costs way more. I can't even understand why, and if the pandemic is a culprit in this price increase or not
the thing with the 1060, especially the 6gb variant, is that they were first of all an amazing value. you got great performance for an amazingly low price. but also that they run pretty much everything at decent settings 1080p up to this day so there is really no need to throw away money to upgrade the system.
I also think that many people who run a gtx 1060 is people like me who have an old system which worked fine but around the time of the 1060 did our systems start to strougle in games. so we went out to buy the best value card we could find that doesn't get too bottle necked by our old cpu. my upgrade was from an ati hd6870 which really didn't run the modern titles at the time and by shear luck did I find a 1060 on a black friday flash sale for the low low price of 1500 swedish kronor which is just under $180 and that is an amazing price since all our computer components generally sell for 20-35% over the price you pay for components in the us.
My favorite part about the 1060 is that it somehow is harder to find a decent price on it vs rx 570 or 580 yet it not being as good as either in many scenarios I've seen. The 6gb is hard to find on the used markets and it's about comparable to the 570 and 80.
I have both 1060 6GB and 580 4GB I'm getting around 60 FPS in 1080p sith FSR on high settings. I'm happy AF. I broke free from the urge of having the best. Now if it's working enough them I'm happy 😁. And yeah I can afford 3080 at the current prices just fine but nonsense for me.
Everything about 8:45 is perfect. The glitchy palmtree. The "cat-pure" in the label.
Oh hey, it's my GPU! Well, almost. Got the Gigabyte Windforce OC.
i think the days of the 60 series GPUs for $250 MSRP are gone forever
Only if people actually buy these overpriced crap in the market right now...
1660 is still 250 ish if you can get it at msrp
Boy I hope not. That's already a ton of money.
I got a 1060 3gb before realizing that the vram wasn't the only difference :(
Honestly that reduction of CUDA cores was scummy on Nvidia's part, but that 3GB frame buffer is far more limiting than 5%-10% lower performance these days.
Your first mistake was the obvious one. 3GB
"I'll just get something crappy, i'll swap out soon with an RTX something and this will just be used in the media PC, 3GB of VRAM is plenty for now"
It seemed like a good idea at the time. :
this is why 2060ti and 3070 is like the 960 and 970 , vram limited too soon to be relevant for 5 + years
GTX 1060 6GB owner here since day 1 launch....Best investment I've ever did, still using it to this day, it is still a beast as it was all those years ago
No it's not
I'm running a 1060 with an i7 4790 cpu and it still kick ass. Even an 11th gen core i5 is almost the same as a 4th gen i7. What is happening with these companies? There is absolute no value to anything they make anymore. It's like YOU should be thankful they are selling you their stuff. Like you are the one lucky to give them money.
"In the Ether[eum] somewhere."
I see what you did there.
I've found in newer games medium settings at 1080p will typically give perfectly good performance(at worst I get 70fps) on my 1650 Super, which I'm told is of comparable performance to this card. Also keep in mind, I'm not much for appearances, I'm just worried about frame rate. I'll often turn off shadows and depth of field in order to get extra frames and would still be using my old 1050 had the thing not got to the point not being able to get a stable framerate at 1080p low and all effects off.
It's funny that a lot of these revisit videos makes me realize the most popular titles are still the same games that came out years ago.
Consoles held back innovation. When you design a game to sell across the board, you cater to most common hardware. The new consoles should help us all enjoy prettier games, and more advancements. I'm a PCMR, and I understand the game makers need to make money. But it does suck.
@@th3R0b0t when consoles released in 2014 PC hardware on STEAM charts weren't much better.... you guys also forget you have low end hardware as a gigantic portion of the "PCMR"
@@th3R0b0t Good points. Was curious what your reasons or reasons as to why consoles held back innovation? Are you talking about software or hardware innovation>?
@@jaywilbur515 I would side mainly on hardware. It's been the same story last couple of console revisions.
Crysis at the time it came out, crippled PCs. The consoles I seen try and play it, were constantly dipping below 30FPS. That game put the hurt on everything.
(Quick search says, Console release was 4 years after PC release. At that point, Crysis on PC could be current hardware. But Console was 5-6 year old hardware.)
Sim games are the only games that push limits. (read: Not arcade racers)
Asobo has said they expect to port FS2020 to the Series X. They claim that it will have smooth constant 30fps. I'm curious what it looks like and plays like.
People have referenced FS2020 as the new Crysis, cause it renders so much on screen, it's hard on hardware.
But, the above, is my reasons; I can only name 2 games that cross-released, that pushed beyond the scope of console hardware. Most other game makers, they kept everything coded for lowest common denominator.
@@th3R0b0t What the fuck does popularity and innovation have in common ? New things are rarely popular even if they are better. WoW is the best example. Way better MMORPGs were made yet none ever made it to the top of popularity charts.
I bought the 1060 6GB GDDR5 model a few year ago. Very happy with the card. Zotac is the brand, and it's a "shorty" model that fits into my M-ATX case. Excellent fans with ball-bearings. Stays around 60 Celcius on high / 1080 most games. CyberPunk 2077 taxes the card more and I get around 72 Celcius. Xeon E5 V3 2692 with 64GB DDR4 memory. Just bought a 3060 Dual OC locally, waiting for the delivery but look forward to the upgrade. The 1060 will go into the mining rig. :) TL;DR: Love my 1060 6GB GDDR5!
Rocking a MSI GTX1060 6GB card as we speak!
3060 Ti over 1000 Euro In my country Finland, 3090 Hit record high 3700 Euro Lol - its now Companies what are scalping
Why not 3070€ just to confuse people even more? :-)
Wasn't 3090 a 1500 EUR card on launch? Retailers seeing scalpers making easy profits so they just cut them off.
Hey, can you make a video undervolting the new cards for lower thermals and better performance?
Would be interested in NVIDIA GTX 770 in 2021 Revisit!
My PNY 4Gb 770 oc card is still going strong, and does pretty well on most newer games that I play on med lowish settings.
@@HaddaClu My GTX 770 FE is still going pretty strong. But struggles to play certain titles.
@@RocketStudios another channel posted a video just the other month doing a 770 revisit and they concluded that theyre good cards but will get more milage if they're the versions with more ram.
@@HaddaClu Yeah. I'm so sad that the GTX 770 FE only has 2GB of vram.
as usual , a very good informative video, i have both the GTX 1060 6Gb and an RTX 2060 Super on different RIGS , one with 2 Tb of games on an HDD and one with 2Tb of games on an SSD , one to play prior to 2019 games , and the other to play 2020 games and beyond, i like it like that ...
got my 1060 in an old system i picked up for 300, been working brilliantly ever since!
Great discussion on the 'no need to upgrade' & e-waste! Maybe to help the planet (and our bank accounts) the best thing is to keep this good old 1080p display and not fall into the 4k trap. Gaming at 1080p with good visuals and frame rate is actually pretty cheap today.
I'm actually kinda sour people didn't have this mentality even before the pandemic, but better late than never I guess.
Yes, but after seeing 4K gaming, I don't really want to game in 1080p, it looks so blurry on 55".
Please do one for RX480 8GB!
He's complaining about namie schemes at one point but oh my God I can't figure out AMD whatsoever I can't tell you if that card is from 2001 or from 2028.
PS I'm using an R9 390 8GB
Boys with time machine: don't sell your GPU.
So it's a year later than this video was recorded haha (May 2022). I have to say that I don't game but been hanging on to my 1060 3GB card. It is getting a little long in the tooth since I do use it with 4 monitors. I found the conclusion spot-on with pricing. Get it for $100. That's exactly what I paid for it in 2019. In fact, I got 2 so I could run 2 graphics cards and up to 8 monitors. That didn't work out well, but my neighbor ended up needing a a card in 2021, and guess who hooked them up with their spare for $100 ;) Anyway, I'm grateful for all the videos you put out. Thanks GN!
At last, a review and comparison of the *60 cards that isn't just complaining about the market conditions and somehow making that the 3060's fault. Well done GN.
Now I'm curious how RX580 holds up all these years
RX580 a little beast, especially the 8gb. Current prices reflect how good these cards are. Thought I was smart flipping one for double what I paid for it. Now a few months later prices up another 4 or 5 times!
"Just throw a GPU out there. Don't even bother with specs. It will still disappear."
Maybe thats why Intel is so hot for DGPU right now.
if it had the same performance as the gt750TI at the same MSRP as the 750TI people would still buy it in this market.
People trying to sell "gaming" PCs with hd5450 LOL
There's never been a better time for Intel to get into the market, and there may never be a time this good again.
@@SparkY0 Indeed
"Some of you might remember"
Me, looking at my current rig....
you are not alone°!
1070Ti owner here.
Still very happy with it.
Although I don't play the most recent games.
This is a very well timed review! I have had 1060 6gb for 3 years now and Cyberpunk and RDR2 filled me with insecurites about its' perfomance. But to think about it - both of these games no longer interest me and were more or less adequate with lower settings for a playthrough or two. The rest of the games that occupy most of my gaming time run at 80+ or 144+ fps on this card with maxed out settings and I don't look for any AAA titles in near future.
Huang and Lisa can chill off with their $330/$480 "midrange" offerings for now. I'll wait for another $250 card that's actually in stock and games that would justify it before allocating any money.