TBH it's great you publish videos like this one. I have recently bought 4080S and with full honesty I just realize I would be better off with anything between 4060 and 4070 super. Many tech channels push narrative "4k or nothing" and we are absolutely missing the whole point of gaming which is joy. THNX for your work, brother.
I could settle for a girl with a small bum and c-cups... but I'd much rather have a curvy girl with nice H-Cups.... Preferably not used. Just my opinion. lololol
Same, I purchased a 4080 super and was kind of nervous about it. I realize it’s so much overkill for right now, would’ve gone with the 4070 TI or lower for sure
Honestly I kinda feel the same way. I bought a 4080S because I need a 4k monitor for work but now I find myself avoiding lighter titles like league and cs2 because it feels like a waste of my pc. But now I loose out on the joy of those games.
the 1060 6GB was one of my favorite cards of all time. i got the really nice 9gps Aorus Xtreme back then and it was an absolute beast. It was relatively new and only cost me 240 bucks used. it was always stone cold in my tiny HP case and overclocked like hell. I wish we could get Nvidea cards for those awesome prices again. the 10xx series had absolutely everything for every need. The awesome 4gb 1050ti that even worked without power connector, midrange king 1060 with tons of custom designs, low high end 1070 with whopping 8 GB vram, the 1080 which was awesome but defenitely stood in the shadow of the all mighty 11GB 1080ti, which still haunts Nvidea till this day. this lineup had everything!
A lot depends on the games you play. My cousin still got a 1060 3GB from the crypto-craze time for 1440p, and all he plays is League of Legends and Pro Evo (eFootball now). That card could last him until it dies lol
The 1060 3GB traded blows with the GTX 970 back when I had both cards, it was almost always in the margin of error territory. Given that both the GTX 970 and GTX 1060 3GB are both still getting driver updates it'd be interesting to see how they compare in the same games.
Lmfao bro! UPGRADE ALREADY. The gains you’ll get with newer cpu and motherboards are other worldly. Seriously you are hella behind in features so hard core. M.2, usb 3.2, type c, thunderbolt, 8 core 16 threads, like damn brother. Your GPU is the only thing in that rig that is remotely modern.
@@jonsson_68 of course its gonna feel slow then, you are leaving a lot of performance on the table, look on youtube stock vs oced 2700k, also getting your ram to around 1866mhz minimum at least
Used GTX 1060 3GB before, and returned to it as my current card (3060Ti) is sent for RMA. Surprised that the only thing I'm really missing are details which is really not that important in competitive games like shooters. If you're playing F2P games or esports, the 3GB would do fine. Only when it comes to AAA titles, especially new ones and their atrocious optimisation that you'd need the 6GB card to even barely make it.
An Asus 1060 Phoenix 3GB was the first gpu I bought and opened a world of games coming from integrated graphics on an i5 4670k. The RTX 2070S I got next was a much longer term investment and effectively doubled framerate however it didn't give me that same wow level I got going from integrated the first time. I was even less impressed recently playing around with a 3090 given how unoptimised games are where the 2070S usually has more effective usage. I didn't realise it before but the 2070S (just missed out on the 2080), surpassed the 1060 3gb for just 279 aud new at the time vs 839 2070S. Not because of it's 8gb that lasted, not because of it's big oc'd performance out of box (Galax 1 Click OC model).. but because of it's relatively stable feature set and rtx features most importantly rtx voice (everyone should be using this). I saw people praising 1080 ti awhile back and im like nah, 2080 reigned supreme. The drivers being solid and being pretty easy to navigate across all the cards was very helpful.
I have a 1060 6gb card with an I 5 4690 cpu and I don't play games per se but I do use Xplane 12 and at moderate settings I get 30-60 fps. Not bad for a 10yr old card. Sometime in the next 6mos I will make the move to a new CPU/GPU it will be interesting to see the difference. Great videos Bryan
Resizable BAR doesn't work with Pascal GPU's. Just one of the new "limits" Pascal cards seem to get while NVidia tries to kill away their biggest mistake xD Scratched my head about it for months with my 1070Ti but GPU-Z is the easiest way to check that it says "Unsupported GPU"
It's a global depression. This is the best channel to get you FPS/perf for your dollar. There may be a time where the powers that be want to choke our electricity, he'll be our #OURGUY then then too.
That's quite a dramatic comment when it's explained in the first minute and a half of the video lol So all people using modern integrated graphics are living in the past? what if you already own the hardware? what if you are reviving a 720p screen or crt?
You brought " Integrated graphics into the discussion" I Wrote........If you have to ask about the validity or running 3 GB of VRAM in 2024.You must be living in the past. The Video is about 3GB of VRAM vs 6GB VRAM , not " Integrated GPU " vs " GPU ".
Nice video. I built my first PC with a GTX 1060 3GB and immediately realized that it was not enough for my needs due to the lack of VRAM. So six months later I sold it and for the same price I got a Radeon RX 580 8GB and the extra memory helped my games run smoothly.
I recently got an MSI gaming X GTX 1060 6GB and i am going to upgrade to that i already repasted the card fully so ready for overclocking. it should be very quiet
Lucky man! As a direct GTX1060 enthusiast (who has reviewed almost variant), I can’t find one today to save my life. All I see here in California US is RX570/580s locally.
It's amazing what the 10 series can still do. Yes developers do still keep in mind older cards to some extent to make more sales and nvidia to their credit kept diver updates alive, but the 10 series of cards were and still are surprising. A 1080 or 1080ti will still play new titles well to this day at 1440p with a few setting turned down. Plus obviously ray tracing off. Nothing wrong with a 1060 if at 1080p and willing to make a few graphical adjustments.
IMHO, the 1060 is best match for a low power PSU, and/or an older CPU (say like the i7-2600). (maybe a OEM PC where you can add a 2xMolex>6pin Power adapter, without worry, since it draws max 50W from the 6pin) But if it has enough juice in it (say 400W+ on an average platform, with at least 1x8pin PCI-E), the 1070 can be found often for 75-100 USD, and very much worth the extra price. Anything from the i7-4770 and above, can handle a GTX 1070 in most titles without bottlenecking it. For a CPU below that, the 1060 is enough. The 3GB is a decent match for a very low budget(low power) i5-xxxx e-sport gaming PC. For the i7-xxxx, I would pick the 6GB model, since the CPU (still) has the threads to handle even the more demanding titles "resonably". So you want the VRAM that these games easily eats up even in 1080P.
1060 3gb got me through many years when I had income issues. Card is a little baller. Glad to see it still chugging right along. It's past its prime but if you wanna play some older titles or even newer ones on lower settings it is still very capable of doing some jobs.
Ahh, yes! Is that the LCT 240 I see you using? If so, you picked a great mic for the price. The LCT 440 pure will give you an even better tone. The gtx 1060 is still a great card if you continue to play older games.
i still have 1060 6gb and was happy playing csgo but now i feel the need to upgrade... still this card has given me so much since 2016 goated card for sure
My brother ran a 1060 6GB flawlessly until last year in a god-awful heat trap of a case, the only thing that had him upgrading was modern AAA games because the 1060 is still good enough for just about anything else. Good to see the 3GB variant holding on where it can, had no idea NVIDIA had driver-level tweaks for differing VRAM amounts
Have to be careful going off just the reported numbers. Much of those “tweaks” is reducing texture quality and/or not drawing them at all. Framerate stays up but visual quality is not the same
Maybe I missed it, but @techyescity did you mention that the 3GB vs 6GB 1060 is not just a vRAM difference? The 3GB has 1152 CUDA cores vs 1280 on the 6GB. Thats ~11% less so some of the performance differences are probably a result of the lower CUDA count and not related to the vRAM amount at all.
He did mention that in the video that the 3gb model is slower and that is shown in all the tests which is why he didn't mention the fact that the 6gb model is faster in all tests, only when the frame rate difference was big enough to be shown off by the VRAM being oversaturated
I recently purchased an rx570 8gb for $65 shipped off ebay. With that in mind I wouldn’t pay more than $40 for the 3gb…. But at that price it makes a great htpc option also pretty low power so can build an old office pc into a sweet minecraft/genshin impact machine
I don't think it's VRAM related for FSR as the RTX 3060 laptop and RTX 4050 laptop have 6gb of VRAM and the RTX 3050 laptop has 4gb of VRAM and both have no trouble enabling FSR. Granted if you're on those cards you would be using DLSS but in the case of those few games that don't support DLSS, none of those cards have any issues enabling it in any titles. I wonder if it's something else. I haven't tested Miles Morales on my older 1060 laptop yet though, only my 3060 laptop but I wonder if it will have the same issue
Love this card, but it was a bit of a letdown (especially the 3gb) even 5 years ago.These days I'd rather opt for some rx470/480/570/580, possibly 8gb but even 4gb is 33% more than 3 and WILL be critical today.
Wow, that's really cheap! I wish I could go there. Here in the Philippines we have many used computer products however, our 1060 6GB is still around 100-120 USD. That price is still cheaper than our 750ti and I don't know why. Hahahah
Brian, I have a question about PSUs. I have recently got my hands on a 1000 watt Platinum PSU. But my system doesn't need anywhere near that much power. I am currently using a 500 watt 80+ "white" PSU, and I rarely exceed 200 watts while gaming. I'd say average is around 150 watts (gaming). Will using the Platinum model make any difference in efficiency even if I'm not pushing it into it's efficiency 'sweet spot" ? Do I keep it, or flip it? . . . Thank you for still making videos for us normal PC guys. Cheers from Alaska.
Its not gunna be efficient on your power bill. But as psu age they lose power. Like the horsepower on a car engine decreasing over time. After 5 yrs the 1000w will be like 750-800w and then the sweet spot would have shifted.
@@jordan-mn6yy . . . hmm, it sounds like you're suggesting that it would be less efficient (actually use More power). But I don't understand how that could or would be. But I appreciate the information.
If I was playing competitive e-sports type games, the 3 GB would be mostly fine, but if I was playing anything AAA from 4+ years ago, I'd want the 6 GB models just so i could turn up the visual quality a bit.
I use a gtx 1060 6gig version with an i5 4670 and 16 gig of ddr3. I can play wow,warthunder, any of the diablo games through blizzard,world of tanks armored warfare, plus a few others and it doesn't struggle with any of them though i havent played anything else as of yet.
Another dirt cheap brothers of these card is the P106-100 6gb. It's only 20 USD and can perform at 1060 3gb level. I've been using these for my gaming/working pc and it has been going strong for 1.5 years now.
I bought a 1060 3gb for a secondary gaming rig in 2021 during the worst time, but card was from a friend and only $80 and not $250 like most of greedy users, now I'm looking for an oportunity to replace this with a RX 570 8GB, got a plan for a retro pc with Core 2 Quad
Nvidia only supports rebar on RTX 30 and RTX 40. There is apparently a mod available to get it on the RTX 20 and GTX 16 series tho I wouldn't try it. The GTX 10 series and older do not support it at all.
Rebar doesn't work with any card lower than 3xxx series on nvidia. Might be enabled in the bios but won't do anything. Even then nvidia use a white-list so
So I used to have both cards, the 3 and 6 GB version, since I don't use ray tracing, no 4K, no 2K, but only 60 FPS log 1080P without upscaling and can go down to a minimum of 720P 30 FPS, a 1060 is enough for me and I don't play games on ultra or extreme or anything else anyway, but on maximum high
I couldn't care less about playing video games, but I do care greatly about playing video. I have a 2070 that just can't cut it with MadVR. I wish everyone would start to focus on pure compute power rather then some dumb game that only gamers play. I like what you did here with your comparison, but it's barely half the story. What about video playback? What about video editing? What about video render times? What about GPU synthetic scores? Video games are specifically for gamers. The rest of us need the other more meaningful data. More/less of what equals more/less of what exactly? Cheers 🍻
When you say Starfield runs ok on a 1060 6gb - you also have to factor in that you are running a 7800x3d cpu - and the game is quite CPU sensitive. Most people running a 1060 are going to have an old i5 4th gen and arent going to get anything like the fps you achieved. I think a ryzen 3600 would have been a better test cpu for this video.. Will let the cards perform well whilst not giving out slightly misleading fps data for anyone considering the card.
I have the 3gb and sadly there now games that are unplayable on it even at 720 lowest settings like Horizon Forbidden West etc. I have perfectly completed Horizon Zero Dawn on it then when its time to play the next game it bonks out, it somehow rans 30fps+ but there are spots where the framerate dips to single digit headache inducing mess. Had I added the 50 bucks when I purchased the 1060 I would be playing HFW today happily. Now I plan to skip 8gb cards and go directly to 12gb or 16gb if ever I save the funds needed. The pandemic broke me, If that didn't happened I could be playing on a freaking 3060/6700XT/6800XT/4070/7800XT now...
For moba games and games like warframe and warthunder its perfectly capable of 120+ stable fps. But anything newer and the input lag will make you not play those games.
all nvidia GPU have that tech since maxwell. but nvidia also tweak their VRAM usage in games. that's why in some cases you can see AMD GPU can end up using more VRAM than nvidia GPU.
I have a few GTX 1060 6GB cards but also a couple of the 3GB variety and wondering if the GTX 1050 Ti 4gb would be a better card to use in budget builds over the 1060 3GB?
Pascal being Nvidias biggest and best mistake! Loved by many gamers by offering great performance, efficiency and value in its day and wont be ever reperated again :(
They selling zotac 3070s for 260 a pop on there store.... Refurbished and 3080ti for 470 just saying..... Got a 3070 for my bro and it came with new thermal pads and new paste
TBH it's great you publish videos like this one. I have recently bought 4080S and with full honesty I just realize I would be better off with anything between 4060 and 4070 super. Many tech channels push narrative "4k or nothing" and we are absolutely missing the whole point of gaming which is joy. THNX for your work, brother.
I could settle for a girl with a small bum and c-cups... but I'd much rather have a curvy girl with nice H-Cups.... Preferably not used. Just my opinion. lololol
Same, I purchased a 4080 super and was kind of nervous about it. I realize it’s so much overkill for right now, would’ve gone with the 4070 TI or lower for sure
Honestly I kinda feel the same way. I bought a 4080S because I need a 4k monitor for work but now I find myself avoiding lighter titles like league and cs2 because it feels like a waste of my pc. But now I loose out on the joy of those games.
I prefer a cups, love me some sporty action.
I hear you brother, the only thing I discriminate against when it comes to pc parts is the price.
the 1060 6GB was one of my favorite cards of all time.
i got the really nice 9gps Aorus Xtreme back then and it was an absolute beast. It was relatively new and only cost me 240 bucks used.
it was always stone cold in my tiny HP case and overclocked like hell.
I wish we could get Nvidea cards for those awesome prices again.
the 10xx series had absolutely everything for every need. The awesome 4gb 1050ti that even worked without power connector,
midrange king 1060 with tons of custom designs, low high end 1070 with whopping 8 GB vram, the 1080 which was awesome but defenitely stood in
the shadow of the all mighty 11GB 1080ti, which still haunts Nvidea till this day.
this lineup had everything!
Still use 1050 Ti 4GB model... ;-)
I found a GTX 1060 6GB at a thrift store a year or so ago for $10, and it worked surprisingly.
A lot depends on the games you play. My cousin still got a 1060 3GB from the crypto-craze time for 1440p, and all he plays is League of Legends and Pro Evo (eFootball now). That card could last him until it dies lol
1060 is still a fairly popular card, great vid man 👍
Tech YES City, Keep making videos!
I don't know anything about you... but I'll subscribe anyways
The 1060 3GB traded blows with the GTX 970 back when I had both cards, it was almost always in the margin of error territory. Given that both the GTX 970 and GTX 1060 3GB are both still getting driver updates it'd be interesting to see how they compare in the same games.
my gaming rig is a stoneage thingy.. have a intel 2700k, 16gb ram, 1060 3gb.. so maby need to upgrade it now.. its so slow in many games now
Lmfao bro! UPGRADE ALREADY. The gains you’ll get with newer cpu and motherboards are other worldly. Seriously you are hella behind in features so hard core. M.2, usb 3.2, type c, thunderbolt, 8 core 16 threads, like damn brother. Your GPU is the only thing in that rig that is remotely modern.
i hope u oced that 2700k
@@Flex-cx7uj haven't done anything with it.. original
@@jonsson_68 of course its gonna feel slow then, you are leaving a lot of performance on the table, look on youtube stock vs oced 2700k, also getting your ram to around 1866mhz minimum at least
@@jonsson_68 its about a 40% performance increase when you oc to around 5ghz
I got a RTX 2060 for $90 USD....normal temp and hotspot...im so happy with it ❤
Used GTX 1060 3GB before, and returned to it as my current card (3060Ti) is sent for RMA. Surprised that the only thing I'm really missing are details which is really not that important in competitive games like shooters. If you're playing F2P games or esports, the 3GB would do fine. Only when it comes to AAA titles, especially new ones and their atrocious optimisation that you'd need the 6GB card to even barely make it.
whats wrong with ur 3060 Ti ?
Just a faulty fan. The card itself is fine. Trying my luck to get a new card or possibly newer replacement.
@@MoreLessTer ah ok, I replaced a fan in my inno3d but was already past guarantee
An Asus 1060 Phoenix 3GB was the first gpu I bought and opened a world of games coming from integrated graphics on an i5 4670k. The RTX 2070S I got next was a much longer term investment and effectively doubled framerate however it didn't give me that same wow level I got going from integrated the first time. I was even less impressed recently playing around with a 3090 given how unoptimised games are where the 2070S usually has more effective usage. I didn't realise it before but the 2070S (just missed out on the 2080), surpassed the 1060 3gb for just 279 aud new at the time vs 839 2070S. Not because of it's 8gb that lasted, not because of it's big oc'd performance out of box (Galax 1 Click OC model).. but because of it's relatively stable feature set and rtx features most importantly rtx voice (everyone should be using this). I saw people praising 1080 ti awhile back and im like nah, 2080 reigned supreme. The drivers being solid and being pretty easy to navigate across all the cards was very helpful.
I have a 1060 6gb card with an I 5 4690 cpu and I don't play games per se but I do use Xplane 12 and at moderate settings I get 30-60 fps. Not bad for a 10yr old card. Sometime in the next 6mos I will make the move to a new CPU/GPU it will be interesting to see the difference. Great videos Bryan
I landed a 1660 for £60 in the UK, and it's a great value for the price.
Bargain!
All 1060 owners have enabled Nvidia's current tomfoolery. 6gb vs 8gb of the superior rx 480, truly a sight to behold
8gb RX 580 is a beast !
@@Haywood-Jablomie*was a beast, AMD abandoned it lol
1060 is more powerful than 480. Vram is not everything
@@gejamugamlatsoomanam7716 1060 is more powerful and has less power consumption
@@gejamugamlatsoomanam7716 Maybe at release date but I don't think it holds up if you would retest it today.
I sold a GTX 1060 6 gb for $325 USD during the crypto mining boom. Best profit ever.
Resizable BAR doesn't work with Pascal GPU's. Just one of the new "limits" Pascal cards seem to get while NVidia tries to kill away their biggest mistake xD Scratched my head about it for months with my 1070Ti but GPU-Z is the easiest way to check that it says "Unsupported GPU"
It's a global depression. This is the best channel to get you FPS/perf for your dollar. There may be a time where the powers that be want to choke our electricity, he'll be our #OURGUY then then too.
what happened to your forearm? speedy recovery !
If you have to ask about the validity or running 3 GB of VRAM in 2024 , you must be living in the past.
That's quite a dramatic comment when it's explained in the first minute and a half of the video lol
So all people using modern integrated graphics are living in the past? what if you already own the hardware? what if you are reviving a 720p screen or crt?
You brought " Integrated graphics into the discussion" I Wrote........If you have to ask about the validity or running 3 GB of VRAM in 2024.You must be living in the past.
The Video is about 3GB of VRAM vs 6GB VRAM , not " Integrated GPU " vs " GPU ".
I was literally in the middle of commenting about the lack of rebar before I heard his explanation lol, so appreciate the info lol
What matters is if the part contains Tech YES Lovin
Nice video. I built my first PC with a GTX 1060 3GB and immediately realized that it was not enough for my needs due to the lack of VRAM. So six months later I sold it and for the same price I got a Radeon RX 580 8GB and the extra memory helped my games run smoothly.
My EVGA 1060 6GB SSC will live on for years to come until its last display connection; thanks for the video mate 🫡
I recently got an MSI gaming X GTX 1060 6GB and i am going to upgrade to that i already repasted the card fully so ready for overclocking. it should be very quiet
Lucky man! As a direct GTX1060 enthusiast (who has reviewed almost variant), I can’t find one today to save my life.
All I see here in California US is RX570/580s locally.
Considering how awesome is FSR that 6gb Model still stands. Great work 👍
It's amazing what the 10 series can still do.
Yes developers do still keep in mind older cards to some extent to make more sales and nvidia to their credit kept diver updates alive, but the 10 series of cards were and still are surprising. A 1080 or 1080ti will still play new titles well to this day at 1440p with a few setting turned down. Plus obviously ray tracing off. Nothing wrong with a 1060 if at 1080p and willing to make a few graphical adjustments.
IMHO, the 1060 is best match for a low power PSU, and/or an older CPU (say like the i7-2600). (maybe a OEM PC where you can add a 2xMolex>6pin Power adapter, without worry, since it draws max 50W from the 6pin) But if it has enough juice in it (say 400W+ on an average platform, with at least 1x8pin PCI-E), the 1070 can be found often for 75-100 USD, and very much worth the extra price. Anything from the i7-4770 and above, can handle a GTX 1070 in most titles without bottlenecking it. For a CPU below that, the 1060 is enough. The 3GB is a decent match for a very low budget(low power) i5-xxxx e-sport gaming PC. For the i7-xxxx, I would pick the 6GB model, since the CPU (still) has the threads to handle even the more demanding titles "resonably". So you want the VRAM that these games easily eats up even in 1080P.
Excelente revisión!! Es muy útil para aquellos que prefieren jugar casual juegos más contemporáneos a esas GPU pero con buena calidad. 😎
1060 3gb got me through many years when I had income issues. Card is a little baller. Glad to see it still chugging right along. It's past its prime but if you wanna play some older titles or even newer ones on lower settings it is still very capable of doing some jobs.
love my 1060 6gb... now with frame generation and good upscaling thanks to lossless scaling... 7 years of happines for under 300 bucks...
Ahh, yes! Is that the LCT 240 I see you using? If so, you picked a great mic for the price. The LCT 440 pure will give you an even better tone. The gtx 1060 is still a great card if you continue to play older games.
i still have 1060 6gb and was happy playing csgo but now i feel the need to upgrade... still this card has given me so much since 2016 goated card for sure
My brother ran a 1060 6GB flawlessly until last year in a god-awful heat trap of a case, the only thing that had him upgrading was modern AAA games because the 1060 is still good enough for just about anything else. Good to see the 3GB variant holding on where it can, had no idea NVIDIA had driver-level tweaks for differing VRAM amounts
Have to be careful going off just the reported numbers. Much of those “tweaks” is reducing texture quality and/or not drawing them at all.
Framerate stays up but visual quality is not the same
Maybe I missed it, but @techyescity did you mention that the 3GB vs 6GB 1060 is not just a vRAM difference? The 3GB has 1152 CUDA cores vs 1280 on the 6GB. Thats ~11% less so some of the performance differences are probably a result of the lower CUDA count and not related to the vRAM amount at all.
He did mention that in the video that the 3gb model is slower and that is shown in all the tests which is why he didn't mention the fact that the 6gb model is faster in all tests, only when the frame rate difference was big enough to be shown off by the VRAM being oversaturated
I recently purchased an rx570 8gb for $65 shipped off ebay. With that in mind I wouldn’t pay more than $40 for the 3gb…. But at that price it makes a great htpc option also pretty low power so can build an old office pc into a sweet minecraft/genshin impact machine
I don't think it's VRAM related for FSR as the RTX 3060 laptop and RTX 4050 laptop have 6gb of VRAM and the RTX 3050 laptop has 4gb of VRAM and both have no trouble enabling FSR. Granted if you're on those cards you would be using DLSS but in the case of those few games that don't support DLSS, none of those cards have any issues enabling it in any titles. I wonder if it's something else. I haven't tested Miles Morales on my older 1060 laptop yet though, only my 3060 laptop but I wonder if it will have the same issue
Love this card, but it was a bit of a letdown (especially the 3gb) even 5 years ago.These days I'd rather opt for some rx470/480/570/580, possibly 8gb but even 4gb is 33% more than 3 and WILL be critical today.
Recently upgraded my GTX 1070 to the RTX 3070, and didn't look back...
Salvage the vram from 1070?
Wow, that's really cheap! I wish I could go there. Here in the Philippines we have many used computer products however, our 1060 6GB is still around 100-120 USD. That price is still cheaper than our 750ti and I don't know why. Hahahah
Where I live, the rx480 8g gb can be bought between 50 and 70 euro. I think that card has aged better and got faster through out the years.
Brian, I have a question about PSUs. I have recently got my hands on a 1000 watt Platinum PSU. But my system doesn't need anywhere near that much power. I am currently using a 500 watt 80+ "white" PSU, and I rarely exceed 200 watts while gaming. I'd say average is around 150 watts (gaming). Will using the Platinum model make any difference in efficiency even if I'm not pushing it into it's efficiency 'sweet spot" ? Do I keep it, or flip it? . . . Thank you for still making videos for us normal PC guys. Cheers from Alaska.
Its not gunna be efficient on your power bill. But as psu age they lose power. Like the horsepower on a car engine decreasing over time. After 5 yrs the 1000w will be like 750-800w and then the sweet spot would have shifted.
@@jordan-mn6yy . . . hmm, it sounds like you're suggesting that it would be less efficient (actually use More power). But I don't understand how that could or would be. But I appreciate the information.
1060 3gb my first prebuilt pc GPU, had to start somewhere. Live and learn.
If I was playing competitive e-sports type games, the 3 GB would be mostly fine, but if I was playing anything AAA from 4+ years ago, I'd want the 6 GB models just so i could turn up the visual quality a bit.
I use a gtx 1060 6gig version with an i5 4670 and 16 gig of ddr3. I can play wow,warthunder, any of the diablo games through blizzard,world of tanks armored warfare, plus a few others and it doesn't struggle with any of them though i havent played anything else as of yet.
Another dirt cheap brothers of these card is the P106-100 6gb. It's only 20 USD and can perform at 1060 3gb level. I've been using these for my gaming/working pc and it has been going strong for 1.5 years now.
I bought a 1060 3gb for a secondary gaming rig in 2021 during the worst time, but card was from a friend and only $80 and not $250 like most of greedy users, now I'm looking for an oportunity to replace this with a RX 570 8GB, got a plan for a retro pc with Core 2 Quad
Nvidia only supports rebar on RTX 30 and RTX 40. There is apparently a mod available to get it on the RTX 20 and GTX 16 series tho I wouldn't try it. The GTX 10 series and older do not support it at all.
CS2 (lowish settings) and Dota 2 (high settings) in 1080p run perfect on the 1060 3GB. Still, the 6gb for extra 10 to 25 dollars is worth the upgrade.
More VRAM is better because newer games will only run with adequate VRAM.
im still on my 3gb and lossless scaling has given it new life.
I had to dump my old 3GB 780 Classified some 2 to 3 years after I got it. The lack of VRAM just killed it, even in 1080p
Oh games were doing it in?
@@techyescity Fallout 4 with the HD texture pack and Doom Eternal.
Rebar doesn't work with any card lower than 3xxx series on nvidia. Might be enabled in the bios but won't do anything. Even then nvidia use a white-list so
So I used to have both cards, the 3 and 6 GB version, since I don't use ray tracing, no 4K, no 2K, but only 60 FPS log 1080P without upscaling and can go down to a minimum of 720P 30 FPS, a 1060 is enough for me and I don't play games on ultra or extreme or anything else anyway, but on maximum high
I've seen the same results on spider man with fsr 3.1 in other benchmarks of the 1060. It actually ran better without fsr.
Is it 100$ for rtx 3060 12gb a great deal?
Ya thats a great deal if it's a legit 3060 12gb. Just make sure its a working GPU and not "for parts".
@@jaredmishear3630 I tested. Works fine.
I wanna see a comparison between the 1060 6GB and the RX 580
what kind of FPS does the 1060 get on performance mode on fortnite, for curiousity.
GTX 1060 3GB,i7 6700, 16gb Ram ... 900p native with Medium /High settings and I get about 85fps on average
I couldn't care less about playing video games, but I do care greatly about playing video. I have a 2070 that just can't cut it with MadVR. I wish everyone would start to focus on pure compute power rather then some dumb game that only gamers play. I like what you did here with your comparison, but it's barely half the story.
What about video playback?
What about video editing?
What about video render times?
What about GPU synthetic scores?
Video games are specifically for gamers. The rest of us need the other more meaningful data. More/less of what equals more/less of what exactly?
Cheers 🍻
When Buying a graphic card in 2024 whether it is new or old is how much VRAM do you need for your creative and gaming world.
8GB min 12-16 to be same
i was wondering gtx 1060 or the RX570?
*1060 6GB great for low 1080P gaming, would stay away from the newer AAA games though*
When you say Starfield runs ok on a 1060 6gb - you also have to factor in that you are running a 7800x3d cpu - and the game is quite CPU sensitive. Most people running a 1060 are going to have an old i5 4th gen and arent going to get anything like the fps you achieved. I think a ryzen 3600 would have been a better test cpu for this video.. Will let the cards perform well whilst not giving out slightly misleading fps data for anyone considering the card.
I have the 3gb and sadly there now games that are unplayable on it even at 720 lowest settings like Horizon Forbidden West etc. I have perfectly completed Horizon Zero Dawn on it then when its time to play the next game it bonks out, it somehow rans 30fps+ but there are spots where the framerate dips to single digit headache inducing mess. Had I added the 50 bucks when I purchased the 1060 I would be playing HFW today happily. Now I plan to skip 8gb cards and go directly to 12gb or 16gb if ever I save the funds needed. The pandemic broke me, If that didn't happened I could be playing on a freaking 3060/6700XT/6800XT/4070/7800XT now...
8:32 hey thats the msi 1060 i bought lol! and it was 54 usd after tax the prices are in aussie dollars
i m glad i swapped to a 3060 few days ago 12gb
I am still using "AORUS Geforce GTX1060 Xtreme Edition 6GB (Rev 2.0)" since 2020... Uploaded some game-play videos to my channel.
Would be better to test Fortnite on Performance API since its a FPS juicer and would be best suitable for a 1060.
For any of the PC games played by the majority, 1060 is a great gpu at 1080p.
3 GB just enough for e-sports titles. ;-)
Friends still on GTX 660 and HD 6850 *cough cough*
That vram seems to make all the difference.
6GB VRAM is the bare minimum these days.
Not only are we squeezing the orange for the juice, we're also using the pulp as well!
that gpu you can overclock it for more performance and you should
Can you test 970 and 980 gtx?
Why does it never go above 2048 mb? is it a 2gb card?
Hey i wonder if this test would show a bigger fps gap between vram size if system ram and chipset speed is slower like on a ddr4 or ddr3 system
The verdict is that AMD made gold with RX 570/580 series with 8gb vram sadly they are priced badly these days we are better off buying a 1070/1080....
P106-100 + iGPU is the sweet spot
GTX 1070 / Vega 56 is minimum these days.
I would not even entertain buying 1060 unless I would be really desperate.
I am buta upgrade to a GTX 1060 6GB already repasted with new thermal paste its MSI version so i can overclock to 2.1 GHz stable
@@fuzer4047 All power to you. Me is me, you is you 👍🏻
RTX 4070 - 12GB
RTX 4060ti - 16GB
nvidia bruh 🤦♂
Incentive to upgrade.
RTX 4070 users surely won't downgrade to 4060ti.
It's a very thrifty business model.
Seems that Nvidia did a factastic job with those drivers
For moba games and games like warframe and warthunder its perfectly capable of 120+ stable fps. But anything newer and the input lag will make you not play those games.
I’m still using a 1060 6GB, it’s a great card.
The 1060 3gb had memory compression baked in, that's why it tends to have lower memory usage
all nvidia GPU have that tech since maxwell. but nvidia also tweak their VRAM usage in games. that's why in some cases you can see AMD GPU can end up using more VRAM than nvidia GPU.
I have a few GTX 1060 6GB cards but also a couple of the 3GB variety and wondering if the GTX 1050 Ti 4gb would be a better card to use in budget builds over the 1060 3GB?
Sadly I am watching this video on a 1060 3GB right now.
The tech channel that I must put 1.75x speed to watch 😂
Pascal being Nvidias biggest and best mistake! Loved by many gamers by offering great performance, efficiency and value in its day and wont be ever reperated again :(
Hmm trying testing the GPU on like Ryzen 5 3000 series or i5 9600 9th Gen. It be very different. 😂
Neck and neck CPU and GPU at 90%+
but youre not testing 2024 games so...
This GPU dont support resizable bar 5:40
I still use a 1060 6gb in my shop PC with a x3470 Xeon😅
They selling zotac 3070s for 260 a pop on there store.... Refurbished and 3080ti for 470 just saying..... Got a 3070 for my bro and it came with new thermal pads and new paste
There are a lot of games the 3gb won't play even at low. Even battlefield 2042. Most games will work with low resolution.
Would have to try on the new drivers as spiderman showed that there was a massive difference but it didn't affect gameplay so much.
even 12GB is not enough for 4K gaming
8g min or just use onboard apu
I bought a 1060 3gb, sold it quickly and bought a Strix 1060 6gb.
ok so 7 fps is code for pooping the bed
Potato gpu.
Long live to gtx 1060!
it would be worse with DDR4 or DDR3 probably