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hey guys it's time once again for another huge benchmark session this time the focus is on invidious new chief force gtx 1062 weeks ago I was able to reveal the 1060 and most of its specs in the video here rather than go over everything again here's a table I put together comparing the 1060 specs to the 1070 and some of the last generations Maxwell GPUs as you can see the 1060 is a tiny 200 millimeter squared eye and yet thanks to the 16 nanometer FinFET process and video was able to cram inside an incredible 4.4 billion transistors this means despite being 12% smaller than the GTX 960 the 1060 Bose 50% more transistors which is allowed in video to increase the coil count by 25% the 1060 also features 80 texture units and 48 hour rupees in total the 1060 shoots with 1280 CUDA cores and 10 SM units the memory subsystem consists of six 32-bit memory controllers for a total bust width of 192 bit using 6 gigabytes of gddr5 memory operating in at 8 gigabits per second data rate the base clock speed of the 1060 is one thousand five hundred and six megahertz and the typical boost clock speed is 1700 eight megahertz nvidia says that the boost clock speed is based on the average 1060 card running a wide variety of games and applications of course as we've seen with the 1070 and 1080 the actual bruise clock will vary depending on conditions namely thermals and power target the GTX 1060 reference board or founders Edition if you will measures two hundred and forty nine millimeters in length display outputs include one jewel link DVI one HDMI and three DisplayPort connectors like the R X 480 we find just a single 6pn PCIe power connector but with the TDP set of just 120 watts we don't expect in video we'll run into the same issues AMD faced so with the basic information now out of the way let's get to the stuff you guys really came for the benchmarks as always you guys can find all the graphs at the hardware and box website which would be linked in the description below after looking at the results from a select few games and going to be heavily analyzing the data from all 25 games across the multiple resolutions to get a clear idea of how the 1066 up before I do into the benchmarks here are a few quick notes all tests were conducted using my GPU test rig which is built inside the corsair carbide 600c with an Intel Core i7 6700 K clocked and locked a 4.5 gigahertz for a full list of the system specs please check the video description you'll also find a detailed video index there as well finally all benchmarks were conducted after a 10-minute warmup period as this is sufficient time to get these cards up to their maximum working temperature as always I'm using reference AMD and video graphics cards unless specified I'll be focusing on the 1440p resolution for the discussion but I'll quickly take a look at the 1080p performance as well let's start with doom shall we since it's a game I recently read benchmark due to its Vulcan implementation for you guys we've tested all 12 graphics cards using both the OpenGL and Vulkan API so you can see how the AMD and NVIDIA card stack up I'll just skim over the 1080p results as I've decided to focus on 1440p with the GTX 1060 given us performance here we see the 10 60s 13% faster than the rx 480 using OpenGL but shockingly 14% slower with Vulcan let's see if this changes a 1440p this time the 1060 was 15% faster than the RX for 80 using OpenGL but it was also 14% faster and Vulcan in fact the 1060 performance in Doom was very subpar as lost out to not just the GTX 980 but also the 970 hopefully this isn't a sign of what's to come I suspect what we're looking at here is a driver issue let's move on to find out if the 1060 does any better in overwatch okay so things couldn't look more different in overwatch here the GTX 1060 was 21% faster than the RX 480 20% faster than the 970 and impressively eight percent faster than the 980 the 1060 was 24% slower than the 1070 though that was to be expected after all it was still 27% slower when testing with doom increasing the resolution to 2560 by 1440 helps the 1060 extend its lead over the RX 480 as it's now 27% faster the 1060 also increased its margin over the 980 to 11% that said it was still 23% slower than the 1070 here we have the division and at 1080p we find a very close battle between the gtx 1060 and our X 480 the video does burn out here but only by a very slim 3% margin now at 1440p 1060 is able to pull further ahead of the ready extending the margin to 12% this saw the 1060 beat the 980 by a 4% margin while it matched the 390x Hitman was tested using both DirectX 11 and DirectX 12 even under DirectX 11 nvidia gpus performed pretty poorly in hitman here we see the 10 60s 4% slower than the 488 and moving to DirectX 12 only amplified some videos issues in this game where the 1060 is now 14% slower even at 1440p the our X 480 along with the i9 390 have no issue beating the new 1060 in hitman although the 1060 was faster than the 980 it was still 4% slower than the 480 when using DirectX 11 I'm yet to update my results for tomb raider using DirectX 12 so for now we'll have to settle for the DirectX 11 numbers from what I've seen the GTX 1060 does stay well ahead of the RX 480 even when using DirectX 12 here we see the 1060 being the 480 by a 16% margin with an average frame rate of 96 fps the 1060 is able to crack the 60 FPS barrier of 1440 Peters again 16% faster than the RX 480 it was however 3 percent slower than the GTX 980 which was surprising total war Warhammer is another game that I'm yet to start testing with DirectX 12 DirectX 12 is marked as beta at the moment which is why I've been reluctant to make the move using DirectX 11 we see that in video does have an advantage here the 1060 is 12% faster than the arcs 480 surprisingly the 1060 was 10% slower than the GTX 980 despite matching the iodine nano increasing the resolution to 1440p we see that the 1060 is still faster than the RX 480 this time 10% faster still the 1060 was 15% slower than the GTX 980 which is interesting it makes me wonder if we'll be seeing better performance out of the 1060 in this title through a driver update Mirror's Edge catalyst is another new game we've started testing with though this title only supports DirectX 11 as you can see the 1060 is faster than the RX 480 12% faster in fact at 1080p now at 1440p we see a few interesting things most interesting of which is the fact that the 1060 is now quite a bit faster than the GTX 980 whereas they delivered the same performance at 1080p the 1060 is now 20% faster and this makes me think the 4 gigabyte memory buffer of the 980 is to blame here Mirror's Edge catalyst was one of the few games that showed the 8 gigabyte R X 480 outperforming the cheaper 4 gigabyte model speed king of the Ark's 480 here we see that the 1060 is just 7% faster with an average of 49 fps supposed to 46 fps ARMA 3 oh I'm a 3 why do I test with you ah that's right because you guys beg for it every time so here we are unfortunately ARMA 3 doesn't play nice at the RX 480 and as a result the gtx 1060 is 31% faster in this title here the 480 would dip as low as 48 fps while the 1060 never dropped below 68 fps again at 1440p the 1060 was 31% faster than the RX 480 though this time was 4% slower than the Ono 390x and gtx 980 it seems strangely rx4i you so much slower than the ina 390 and our 3 given a tibula matches or beats the r9 390 I know someone's going to say it in the comments so let me address this real quick testing with hair works enable doesn't put the AMD cards at a disadvantage in the witcher 3 anymore we've moved on from 2015 the 1060 is just 7% faster than the RX 480 with hair works enabled and you can expect to see a similar margin within 1 to 2% with hair wefts disabled ok so let's move on to 1440p here the 1060 is just 5% faster than the RX 480 as it isn't able to beat the GTX 980 this time trailing by a 6% margin still The Witcher 3 Wild Hunt is demanding game with all the icon who turned on so an average of 44 fps of 1440p is a commendable result this is where I expected the 1062 really impress me and well it has total system power draw with the 1060 was 17 percent lower than with the R X 480 just 195 watts moreover using the 1060 our test system consumed just 15% more power than the GTX 960 which is remarkable given we saw GTX 980 like performance for the most part still the 1060 doesn't exactly destroy the our X 480 here though it has to be said saving 30 to 40 watts is going to making videos mid-range offering much easier to cool speaking of cool things let's check out the fans Edition operating temperature as we expected the GTX 1060 does run very cool the fans Edition never saw the GPU temp you sees 64 degrees which is a similar result to the GTX 960 this is a huge improvement over both the GTX 980 and the radiant rx 480 for those wondering the 10 60,000 Edition runs really quiet it definitely couldn't be heard of my Corsair combos TK's fans which are very quiet to begin with okay so in this video I took an individual look at just nine of the 25 games tested for the other 16 games be sure to check out the written version of this review of the hardware and box website for this video I didn't want to take out 30 minutes or so of your time walking you through all 25 games just the thought of it is exhausting instead I'm going to make a few quick GPU comparisons based on the data from all 25 games tested but Before we jump to that here's a quick look at the performance vs. power consumption data using a scatterplot graph for those unaware the further ADATA plot is to the right on the x axis the faster the framerate while the higher the figure on the y-axis the greater the power consumption so in short if your GPU you ideally want to be as low and as far right on this graph as possible doing just that is the gtx 1070 which consume just 2.91 watts per frame the GTX 1060 came in second consumers slightly more power per frame thanks to a much lower average frame rate let's declutter things a little by removing all GPUs except for the 1070 1060 and our X 480 here we see that when compared to the rx 480 the 1060 did very well and from a 25 game sample proved it was 25% more efficient however let's remove all the DirectX 11 titles and focus on the games that feature low-level API support these games include hitman ashes of the singularity in Doom as you can see the picture changes quite dramatically as invidious GPUs become slightly less efficient and aim D's are X 480 becomes considerably more efficient thanks to a bump in performance here we see when using DirectX 12 and Vulcan the GTX 1060 and rx 480 of pretty much on par with one another so that's interesting to see now how did the gtx 1060 and our expertise stack up at 1080p on average the 1060 was 12% faster across the 25 games tested the only real outliers here include hitman anno 2205 ARMA 3 and surprisingly battlefield 4 games where the margins were very close include black ops 3 batman ashes of the singularity in the division moving to 1440p the big picture doesn't really change much 1060 still 12% faster than the 480 and we see the same outliers compared to the i9 390 the gtx 1060 was an average 10% faster of 1440p and we see the same outliers from the our X 480 comparison so how does the 1060 compare to the nine-eight you after all in video promised the power of a GTX 980 for every gamer well they look to have delivered on that promise as overall the 1060 was 1% faster that said for more than half the games tested the 1060 was slower though in most of those games the margin was 5% or less what about the next step in the Pascal food chain the gtx 1070 well the 1060 was an average 26 percent slower which isn't bad given the founders edition there's at least 26 percent cheaper well partner cars should be around 40% cheaper those rocking at GTX 960 will certainly notice the upgrade to the 1060 as we found it was an average 81 percent faster in fact worst case scenario still saw the 1060 deliver over 50% more performance the final and probably the most important data comparison I'm gonna make is the cost per frame the figure next to the GPU model is based on the current typical asking price and US dollars from popular retailers such as newegg.com and Amazon most of these GPUs are a bit redundant now such as the fury ax GTX 980 and 970 for example but I've included them anyway out of interest the 1060 found Edition comes into the cost of five dollars per frame based on average performance from the 25 games tested this is kind of poor value frankly the gtx 1070 for example cost only slightly more of $5 30 well the arcs for 8 is considerably cheaper of $4 44 and that's for the 8 gigabyte bottle for me though the RX 484 gigabyte model is where the value is at even if it really is a 4 gigabyte card and not a model that can be unlocked at $200 the 4 gigabyte model cost us $3 70 per frame as it delivers the same performance as the a gigabyte model in our tests this means in video really needs those board partner cards to come in at the $250 MSRP if they want to be competitive in the sub $300 price range at that price the 1060 came in a cost to $4 16 per frame making a 6 percent cheaper than the 8 gigabyte our X 480 but 12 percent more than the 4 gigabyte model quite a few of you didn't like the scatterplot graph in my RX 480 review when it came to showing the cost per frame many of you asked for bar graphs instead here we have the GPU sorted by the average frame rate performance and I've highlighted the $250 board partner 10 60 as well as a 4 gigabyte our X 480 here you can see the same graph Reiss ordered according to cost per frame starting the cheapest card ranging down to the most expensive as you can see the RX 480 for gigabyte card does just edged out the board partner 10 60s assume they do actually come in at 250 us well there you have it all of it the GTX 1060 is as expected faster than the rx for 80 while also going a little easier on your power supply our 25 game sample indicates you'll see a little over 10% more performance on average but you'll also pay a little over 10% more per frame when compared to the 4 gigabyte our X 480 if we do indeed see in videos partners delivering custom cards to market for 250 us I feel AMD's our X 480 a qi card could be in trouble this is down to the fact that it cost more per frame as a result of being slower of course it consumes more power as well and probably won't offer the same degree of overclocking Headroom speaking of which you can check out my GTX 1060 founders edition overclocking video here well my first gtx 1060 board partner review which includes overclocking can be found here overall I feel it's too soon to call a real winner here that said it is fair to say we now have a real fight on our hands once again in the sub $300 GPU market and that will likely end up being good news for you guys a lot of things are going to shape this battle over the next six months from board partner cards - I'm coming DirectX 12 titles so I can't wait to see how it all plays out unfortunately I don't yet have any Australian pricing information so let's hope we're not paying too much of an Australia tax this time thanks for tuning in to hardware unbox I'm your host Matt as always I look forward to seeing you guys next time youtubers like me depend on your support to continue improving the quality and content of our videos to support the channel directly consider becoming a patron to also get access to a heap of cool rewards and exclusive giveaways also don't forget you can check prices and buy the products I looked at in this video through the Amazon links in the video description below thank you kindly for supporting me and the hardware on box channel it means a lot to me and I really do appreciate it and in return I'll continue to work as hard as I can to keep producing the content 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