@@TheSpotify95 also 3060 8gb aka 3050 ti and like the 4070 gddr6 is a slight nerf, there laptop gpus are misleading evrey generation. The list is kind of extensive
It will make a video and that's the point really but the big drawback, no driver support should get mentioned as it's a real decider if you are choosing between used from this era.
@@OcihEvE Polaris (GCN 4) GPUs still have driver support together with Vega (GCN 5) GPUs with version 24.7.1 being the latest driver for both. I'm guessing you were thinking about GCN 1-3 GPUs which were moved to legacy driver support and haven't received a driver update in two years.
@@alix5atasi Right? it felt like most games when the card came out used barely anything in terms of VRAM. then boom 2018 hit and cards are adding double the VRAM. we really bought at a bad time.
My friend has had the gtx 1060 3gb for very long and he is still able to enjoy games like cs2. (As much as cs2 is enjoyable). Tho I would not recommend getting anything under 8gb of vram in 2024 if possible. It is fine if you already have it but upgrading would be best
I mean being able to enjoy a game like cCS2 is not that high of a bar in the first place. A friend of mine has one to and his computer struggles greatly with modern games due to the low VRAM.
@@Jufa24Jaiz07 Using RAM is way way slower than VRAM, the VRAM is locally connected to the GPU cores so can saturate them very fast in near real time. When you use RAM you are restricted to the memory bandwidth on the mainboard which then has to be sent through the CPU then sent to the GPU, and you're sharing those 2 memory channels with all the non GPU related workload your PC is also carrying out so potentially slowing that down too. Always adjust your settings so your VRAM usage is within the limits of your card, you'll get a smoother experience.
started watching your content a couple of months (or weeks) before the pandemic lockdown, since then i think i have another appreciaton or respect for all the legacy hardware you review. please never change!
Great video as always! Possibly a missed opportunity to show the system RAM consumption as everything that doesn't fit the 3GB limit goes there. Maybe with plenty of fast RAM, the problems with low VRAM are minimized than with older systems around in 2016. Cheers from Brazil!
I haven't been this early before, just gotta say that I love the content and I actually watch your videos every chance I get (before sleeping, while eating, while playing) you just calm me down, thanks for all your videos mate, you always give me a good chuckle and some valuable insights.
i got the 3gb version for $100 cheaper than the 6gb one, i think when it was released the difference was pretty negligible, but as games demand more vram the 3gb version suffers more making it age a lot worse than the 6gb version
I sold quite a few GTX 970 builds, before the 3.5 GB scandal. So when the 1060 3 GB came out, at least Nvidia was honest about the VRAM, yet cut down the other specs. It's like they just have to get away with something for the marketing head to be happy.
I wish nvidia would have called them the "1060" and "1060 Ti" or something instead of lumping them together. I feel like that would have cut a lot of the confusion about whether they were really supposed to be the same card or not.
im a 1060 3gb owner (im not in a position to upgrade things atm). i got mine around Xmas of 2020 from a mate who was selling one for $120 CAD (this was JUST before the last time GPUs jumped again in price because of the miners). It's seen me through well, and im playing AAA games on it, with an i7 4790 and 16gb DDR3. It is showing it's age, it had the horrible bug in Space Marines 2 of disappearing textures* (i was a cheeky lad and got me the Dev build before it hit the streets, and the build never had the issue) and with Starfield i had to get mods day one, but i also was playing Fallout 4 a couple months after launch with a dual core and a 2gb 630GT and 4gb ram in Windows 7 so i was used to things like texture mods etc lol. Robocop gave me no issues once i tuned it up (Unreal 5 is great!!!). FSR and XeSS scalers are a boon for the 3gb VRam crowd, as it helps a lot!! I got Space Marine 2 now updated and it works great and can even set the scaler to Quality and turn things like textures to medium and SAOO to high. But i am planning on replacing it and retiring it to my Linux rig. *the team behind the game has not said the cause, but as with your Alan Wake play shows, the VRam can cause things like textures not to load properly, as well as from what i can tell it was a V-Sync issue as when i clamped down V-Sync it at least temporarily ended the issue. I have a feeling that them and over devs push off texture refresh into the VRam cycle, and using some of the higher ram counts (min specs at launch was a 6gb GPU) to cache textures.
I see (and buy) the 6GB version often for sale around 48 USD here in Sweden. Great for super entry builds, like e-sports machines. Love the 1000 series still to this day.
my first pc had a fx6300 and 550ti. I recently purchased a 550ti and was actually still fairly decent 2024. Interesting to see how strong older components are
Picked up a Zotac GTX 1060 3gb for my second gaming computer that I use for streaming purposes. I bought brand new for $47 USD on an Ebay Auction. Did I do good or bad? My main pc has a Gigabyte rtx 3070 8gb and I game at 4k 60hz with tweaked settings in games. That 47 bucks is the total price after taxes and shipping cost. I forget if it was free shipping but total was around 47 and some change.
I still have that same 3gb 1060 model tucked away here in my room, its my first gpu and will always have an important place here, I use it as my fallback card in case stuff breaks. Good times, played Red Dead Redemption 2 on this and you see low quality textures ahahaha
GDDR5 vs GDDR6. The GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER is up to 20% faster than the original GTX 1660 and up to 1.5X faster than the previous-generation GTX 1060 6GB. the TI version is still better than the super version for reasons i don't understand.
Installed a single fan EVGA GTX 1060 3GB seven years ago and I'm still running it. Does perfectly fine with racing games, and all other non game uses, at 1080p. Seems like I get still get driver updates monthly on this relatively ancient card. I will add that it is the SC version.
A good friend of mine bought my Zotac GTX 1070 and AMD Ryzen 5 1600X off of me to upgrade from his 10 year old gaming machine. He was then gifted an AMD Ryzen 9 3900X, which now feeds the GTX 1070.... He has a projector that displays 1920x1080 at 60Hz, and so I tweaked every game installed on his machine to run as consistently as possible above 60 FPS at the low end under stress so I know that with V-sync enabled all of his games will run 60 FPS solid. I tend to do this for any computer I build and install games to, I try to match the games to the refresh of the target monitor for the smoothest, most consistent gaming experience and to avoid annoying screen tearing at too high or low a frame rate in game, frame tearing drives me nuts. Starting with Forza Horizon 5, full 1920x1080 resolution, graphics all set to high including Ray Tracing. God of War, high and medium settings (and looking stunning still), full resolution. Cyberpunk 2077 so far is the only game that I needed help to get a solid 60 FPS experience, using medium crowd density, high textures and a mixture of medium and high settings in the graphics, with AMD FSR 2.1 set to quality. If I turn FSR off, the FPS is in the 50s and down into the lower 40s. The last game he bought, for his wife and he has been enjoying too, is Hogwarts: Legacy and I set I believe it is native resolution with medium graphics settings without any upscale tricks. All this to be said that what was once an insanely good mid range card is a hell of a budget one now. 8GB of VRAM, and I have seen some good deals on GTX 1070 Ti cards recently as well. Personally, save back just that bit extra to skip the GTX 1060s all together at this point if at all possible. As a last resort, I am impressed with how well both 1060s did, but the GTX 1070 in my experience is still punching well above its weight in 2024. Granted, things like Alan Wake 2 and Last of Us are not likely to be played on my friend's machine, not his style of games, but it would be nice to test those to see how well the card holds up.
I'd like to see the lineup of 10xx cards tested in modern games. The 1070 is my favorite card and, while I upgraded from it years ago, it lives on in a PC I gave a friend of mine and he also loves it.
Yeah, would like to see 1066/1070/1080 comparison! BTW given the fact I've checked a 1080Ti not long ago it pretty much scales perfectly on TGP as I discovered so basically 1070, in theory, should be just about 60 FPS in those games(aside from AW2 of course)
I have laptop with 1063 with core i5 4 core 7gen very loud like fighter jet but still ok for gta5 and some NFS games. If you on budget and still have 1066 just keep it.
The GTX 1060 3GB will always hold a special place in my heart. I bought it with the first salary from my very first job. I wanted to get the 6GB version, but I couldn’t afford it at the time. Still, I was happy with what I got back then.
I used to play rdr2 on a 1060 3gb and what bothered me most was that the ground and horse textures looked like minecraft most of the time due to not having enough Vram to select ultra textures (requirement for this game to look nice).
dont see any differnce in either, still amazing on the biggest 3A games, coming from Pong in the 1970s, still compareable to all new entry level cards. how little card have changed, unless you buy one with down payment on a new Car money and Pay an extra $100 a month on the power bill
Kind of impressed with both to be honest! I think DLSS is a great reason to spend a little more for the 20 series though, depending of course on local pricing...
first game alan wake 2 has very obvious missing textures on 1060 3gb. And other games there might be some bits that are worse but its hard to tell through youtube compression and or up scaling artifacts in games with forced fsr. you could turn up texture settings on the 6gb to get a better looking game without losing performance.
The way I look at games is for good 1080p gaming, your GPU needs to value at least as much as a AAA game title (regardless of how bad or overpriced they are)!
its amazing whats still possible on a card with less than 4gb. i wonder what the difference would be like if you turned up the textures for example. there might be a bigger difference between the two.
the naming is off - they should have called the 3gb the 1060 and the 6gb the Ti variant. then again, with the 950, it's CUDA count was more like it was a 950Ti (the 1050 and 750 were 640CUDA cards), but Maxwell was a bit more of a bare cupboard for cards.
using a 1060 3gb as we speak, completely sufficient for my needs and is serving me well for the last couple of years, i don't play newest games anyway, but im planning on getting 1070 soon along with a better processor.
Bought this a long time ago and it has served me well. I've mostly played indie games but I'm fine with having to not play on the Highest settings when I do Definitely don't buy it for a mid range build in 2024. For a starter gaming rig for your younger sibling or a friend, maybe it's a good starting point
the rx 560 was more of a gtx 1050 competitor than a 1060. The rx 570 should hold up pretty well against the 1060 3gb and an rx 580 8gb would be better than the gtx 1060 6gb although way worse than a gtx 1070. Pretty sure Nivida released the gtx 1060 3gb to try and fight the rx 570 4gb.
Are you saying you have a 1050 Ti desktop or mobile? They might not believe you because you're being unclear. While the same die, the mobile is a different variant and not the same performance or specs obviously.
Yes do 1060 v 1070 v 1080, im currently running 1070 would be interested to see if 1080 would be worth it as a cheapish upgrade. 1070 has been great for 1080p gaming.
@RandomGaminginHD Honestly I was thinking about something lately.. you should be doing more overclocking versus stock speeds type videos here and there. Just a suggestion🎉
Issue with overclocking is every gpu/cpu is different and other components like motherboard and power supply can affect stability + an oc in 1 game might be fine but not the next. Can be interesting as some chips get reputations as OC champs and others can barely go above stock most of the time.
It just microstutters a bit when the assets are loading. Playing in a lower resolution, turning on upscaling, or installing one of those texture downscaling mods will remove the microstutters as well as improve the average framerate. Comparing how this game performs now to how it was on launch day is night and day, Bethesda has done a good job optimizing this game.
texture load in. apparently devs took shortcuts and even abused AMD-centric code commands, causing buffer issues on Nvidia gear (which i think Todd was sheepishly alluding to when people were saying they had issues running the game and he said its time to buy new gear... he probably meant changing to Team Red, as him and other companies cut costs and dev time by going AMD because of the shortcuts with DX12 games (and why you need shaders generated when you play). The D3DVK devs caught the code abuse when they were looking at the game running on Linux (SteamOS).
I have an I7 4771 laying around that would probably run good with these older cards. 4771 non-k seems kind of rare here. I know you like odd parts. might be common outside US midwest.
When I undervolt and overclock my 1660S I found that it equals scores of a 1070 while still being under 130W. 1660S is as low as I would go these days. Maybe RX580 8gb if you absolutely have to stay under $100.
Horizon Forbidden West will tell everyone that they should have opted for the 6gb back when it was released, the 6gb version will still run many games in few years while the 3gb cannot run some games today. some not even reaching 30fps in 720p low details with scalers...
60fps may be the magic number, but 30fps is usually just fine for single player titles. So the 1060 is fine for a little while longer. If you want to get a slightly lower specced 1060 but with more VRAM, the Quadro P2000 is what I have in my spare PC and it works pretty well, about 3-5fps lower.
It's the vram limitations that'll cause the biggest problem. The 1060 6gb is fine for a while especially with FSR at 1080p but the 3gb 1060 is just hardware crippled so you have textures not loading properly as shown in the video. You might get framerates but textures, environment details etc are just going to chew through 3gb. FSR can't help with that. But some people are ok with that. Personally for me, 6gb vram is bare minimum, 8gb is fine. 3gb vram was quite low at the time the 1060 3gb released compared to the competition. I mean the difference in price between a 1060 6gb and 1060 3gb is a Mcdonald's happy meal today. There's absolutely 0 reason to buy a 3gb 1060
The 3GB model should be roughly 10% (sometimes more sometimes less) behind the 6GB model due to the 3GB model being slightly cut down spec wise. At least until you run out of VRAM, then the 3GB model will fall off a cliff sooner than the 6GB model does. Ask me how I know. 😅
Hey man love from India.I have ryzen 5 3600 and gtx 1660 ti 6 gb and want to upgrade to rtx 4060 16 gb vram so should i glt for upgrade with this gpu ?
Can you do a comparison of the 1060 3gb to the rx 580 8gb? It might sound like a weird conparison (which it is) but a lot of people might be wondering what card they should replace their 1060 3gb with, while not spending that much money, and I don't currently have a 1060 3gb with to compare them to each other, so I'd think it would be very helpful if you did a comparison for your audience that are on a budget :)
@@arms08yuki84 15 percent faster for pennies and the in real life performance is pretty substantial it's the difference between all low settings barely playable to medium settings playable
@@Scornfull 15% is 15%. RX580 can get 46fps if 1060 gets 40fps average if VRAM isn't issues as I said. there is more gap of course if you play something VRAM related game or optimized to AMD card. I guess VEGA56 or 1660(super/ti) will be good for sub 100 bucks nowadays depend on country. I mean 580 is good choice but not upgrade choice from 1060 3GB imo.
@@arms08yuki84 The majority of modern titles will show a pretty significant gap between the two, you'd have to lower settings to very low to get a playable framerate because of the lack of VRAM, and the RX580 is half the price of that where I'm from (the US) either way it's still a substantial upgrade because almost no modern games can be run at medium settings with just 3 GBs of VRAM anymore it just isn't the case, for 40 dollars there's five more gigs of VRAM, and it's much faster at higher settings. There's tons of videos showing there's a much bigger gap between the full 1060 and the RX 580 8GB let alone the heavily cutdown version
I see that your thing is putting together odd combos and making them perform but do you have anything modern and budget I can build thats good enough for ultra 1080p but cheap???
We'll see how the 4060 and ti version are doing in 8/9 years time. With only 2gb more vram than the better 1060, probably not great. Of course, that depends on future console hardware as it was ps4 support for games that kept decade old graphics cards viable for so long.
@@peterpan408 Sure, the 3060 12gb is a decent card - it's the 4060 and especially the £400 ti version with their paltry 8gb of memory I'm not a fan of.
Surprised the 3GB card held up as well as it did. That said, I wouldn't buy a 3GB card, and would focus on the 6GB card. Many games that now state the 1060 as the minimum requirement do mention specifically the 3GB card - otherwise, what's the point in having the 1060 as the minimum compared with the 4GB 1050Ti?
I’m tinkering around with a low cost Dell Desktop (Precision 3620) just curious is 3 gb 1060 a better route than a 1050ti? Reason I’m asking is because I can scoop one up around me for around 40 bucks (US) Thanks Edit: I should add I’m also looking at a 1650 too with or without a 6 pin connector just because I don’t want to change the psu since its running strong and it’s not my main pc.
Hey man thanks so much for uploading this comparison video. You are pretty much spot on on the prices for both card versions. I have a Zotac 3gb in OE box going for $64 shipped. I also have 2 MSI 6GB cards that will be getting paste and pad maintenance soon with the goal of including them in budget gamer PC's. There are a lot of GTX 1060 6GB cards here in the US market. Do you think that when so many of these and also the RX 580 flood the market, especially near the end of the year, that they were used for mining? That's what I'm thinking because I have had to bios flash a couple. Thanks again for your channel, much appreciated.
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The 3gb version also comes with lesser specs compared to the 6gb, so it's not just the amount of VRAM difference.
Yeah less cores too
Luckily it was the last time nvidia has pulled this nonsense... oh wait...
@@KimBoKastekniv47 RTX 3050 vs "RTX 3050 6GB" (aka RTX 3040)
@@TheSpotify95 also 3060 8gb aka 3050 ti
and like the 4070 gddr6 is a slight nerf, there laptop gpus are misleading evrey generation. The list is kind of extensive
thats why I bought 1060 6gb at launch
Great Video mate.
Now we Need a RX 580 4GB Vs. 8GB.
It will make a video and that's the point really but the big drawback, no driver support should get mentioned as it's a real decider if you are choosing between used from this era.
@@OcihEvE despite no driver support Ragnarok and other new games work well on it
@@Radek494 And a lot of people who buy these older cards play older games anyway so they're worth a try
The RX470 8G versus the RX470 4G vs the 1060?
@@OcihEvE Polaris (GCN 4) GPUs still have driver support together with Vega (GCN 5) GPUs with version 24.7.1 being the latest driver for both. I'm guessing you were thinking about GCN 1-3 GPUs which were moved to legacy driver support and haven't received a driver update in two years.
Been watching your videos for years man. Thank you for your hard work, and dedication to the channel. Always a great watch
Thanks for sticking around :)
As someone who has owned a 3gb version of the 1060, DO NOT buy the 3gb version of the 1060 in 2024.
I remember buying the 3gb version thinking to myself "I'll never need to use 6gb of vram".... hahahaha
@@LateNightFire same, I'd watch benchmarks online and most games wuold use not more than 2gb of vram, now 8gb is the bare minimum to play new games
@@alix5atasi Right? it felt like most games when the card came out used barely anything in terms of VRAM.
then boom 2018 hit and cards are adding double the VRAM. we really bought at a bad time.
I got one for $40 its not that bad
@@takumiinitiald7057 eh, I got a 3090 for $10. Bad deal.
My friend has had the gtx 1060 3gb for very long and he is still able to enjoy games like cs2. (As much as cs2 is enjoyable). Tho I would not recommend getting anything under 8gb of vram in 2024 if possible. It is fine if you already have it but upgrading would be best
I mean being able to enjoy a game like cCS2 is not that high of a bar in the first place. A friend of mine has one to and his computer struggles greatly with modern games due to the low VRAM.
Sorry if i dont know too much about this, but why the vram is a problem when we also can use Ram if its not enough the vram?
it really does depend on what games you play though
@@Jufa24Jaiz07
Using RAM is way way slower than VRAM, the VRAM is locally connected to the GPU cores so can saturate them very fast in near real time. When you use RAM you are restricted to the memory bandwidth on the mainboard which then has to be sent through the CPU then sent to the GPU, and you're sharing those 2 memory channels with all the non GPU related workload your PC is also carrying out so potentially slowing that down too. Always adjust your settings so your VRAM usage is within the limits of your card, you'll get a smoother experience.
But cs2 runs on a toaster so it's not really a game that pushes benchmark results tbh
started watching your content a couple of months (or weeks) before the pandemic lockdown, since then i think i have another appreciaton or respect for all the legacy hardware you review. please never change!
Thank you :)
Great video as always!
Possibly a missed opportunity to show the system RAM consumption as everything that doesn't fit the 3GB limit goes there. Maybe with plenty of fast RAM, the problems with low VRAM are minimized than with older systems around in 2016.
Cheers from Brazil!
I haven't been this early before, just gotta say that I love the content and I actually watch your videos every chance I get (before sleeping, while eating, while playing) you just calm me down, thanks for all your videos mate, you always give me a good chuckle and some valuable insights.
Thank you :)
Why are these videos so addictive?
i got the 3gb version for $100 cheaper than the 6gb one, i think when it was released the difference was pretty negligible, but as games demand more vram the 3gb version suffers more making it age a lot worse than the 6gb version
Tbh u should have bought the titan X for 1.2 grand instead. Much better value!
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Yeah vram has become so much more important on modern games, it was never that relevant in the past.
1:16 the 3GB card is not loading in same textures.
Keep this up. Bro a lot of us use this cards
I sold quite a few GTX 970 builds, before the 3.5 GB scandal. So when the 1060 3 GB came out, at least Nvidia was honest about the VRAM, yet cut down the other specs. It's like they just have to get away with something for the marketing head to be happy.
The RX 480 8GB would have been such a good buy back then
I wish nvidia would have called them the "1060" and "1060 Ti" or something instead of lumping them together. I feel like that would have cut a lot of the confusion about whether they were really supposed to be the same card or not.
I appreciate these videos. It gives me some useful info for I'm discussing builds with people
1060 vs 1070 vs 1080 sounds interesting. If possible add the 1070 ti as well.
Yeah almost forgot about that!
And add the 1080ti
@@jponz85 may as well add in the 1060 5gb, 1050 ti, 1050 3gb, 1050, 1030, 1030 ddr4 to get the full stack lol
@@trackingdifbeatsaber8203 nah, nobody is using nor do we care about the 1050, 1030s etc...
All you need now is the Chinese 5 gig 1060
a great eCafe card and a true PUBG veteran
@@m8x425 a true PUBG veteran uses their Apple Watch
im a 1060 3gb owner (im not in a position to upgrade things atm). i got mine around Xmas of 2020 from a mate who was selling one for $120 CAD (this was JUST before the last time GPUs jumped again in price because of the miners). It's seen me through well, and im playing AAA games on it, with an i7 4790 and 16gb DDR3. It is showing it's age, it had the horrible bug in Space Marines 2 of disappearing textures* (i was a cheeky lad and got me the Dev build before it hit the streets, and the build never had the issue) and with Starfield i had to get mods day one, but i also was playing Fallout 4 a couple months after launch with a dual core and a 2gb 630GT and 4gb ram in Windows 7 so i was used to things like texture mods etc lol. Robocop gave me no issues once i tuned it up (Unreal 5 is great!!!). FSR and XeSS scalers are a boon for the 3gb VRam crowd, as it helps a lot!! I got Space Marine 2 now updated and it works great and can even set the scaler to Quality and turn things like textures to medium and SAOO to high. But i am planning on replacing it and retiring it to my Linux rig.
*the team behind the game has not said the cause, but as with your Alan Wake play shows, the VRam can cause things like textures not to load properly, as well as from what i can tell it was a V-Sync issue as when i clamped down V-Sync it at least temporarily ended the issue. I have a feeling that them and over devs push off texture refresh into the VRam cycle, and using some of the higher ram counts (min specs at launch was a 6gb GPU) to cache textures.
I see (and buy) the 6GB version often for sale around 48 USD here in Sweden. Great for super entry builds, like e-sports machines. Love the 1000 series still to this day.
my first pc had a fx6300 and 550ti. I recently purchased a 550ti and was actually still fairly decent 2024. Interesting to see how strong older components are
Picked up a Zotac GTX 1060 3gb for my second gaming computer that I use for streaming purposes. I bought brand new for $47 USD on an Ebay Auction. Did I do good or bad? My main pc has a Gigabyte rtx 3070 8gb and I game at 4k 60hz with tweaked settings in games. That 47 bucks is the total price after taxes and shipping cost. I forget if it was free shipping but total was around 47 and some change.
I still have that same 3gb 1060 model tucked away here in my room, its my first gpu and will always have an important place here, I use it as my fallback card in case stuff breaks. Good times, played Red Dead Redemption 2 on this and you see low quality textures ahahaha
That would be a great showcase 1060 6gb vs 1070 vs 1080 for sure, i was waiting for a test of the 3gb vs 6gb and it came.
Im using an EVGA 1050TI / phenom 965BE / win 7 / - system built 2012
still working like a charm. even my Mcafee still works.
i had an AM3 Athlon II X3 and i had to dump it eventually because it wouldnt do SSE 4.2 which newer games needed.
Now do a 1060 6gb v 1660 😂
GDDR5 vs GDDR6. The GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER is up to 20% faster than the original GTX 1660 and up to 1.5X faster than the previous-generation GTX 1060 6GB. the TI version is still better than the super version for reasons i don't understand.
@@FlauntyToaster the 1660 super was my first GPU. Glad it still holds up to this day
@@schifferu Still rocking my Asus 1660S Ventus. It's been an absolute champ.
@@FlauntyToasterwhat's difficult to understand. 1660 Ti has more multiprocessors than Super version
I won a 1070 for 62 UKP recently, so indeed one can step up to larger VRAM cards with very little additional cost.
Installed a single fan EVGA GTX 1060 3GB seven years ago and I'm still running it. Does perfectly fine with racing games, and all other non game uses, at 1080p. Seems like I get still get driver updates monthly on this relatively ancient card. I will add that it is the SC version.
Had Asus Dual 1060 6GB which was HUGE upgrade from 770 2GB. Pascal so good tho so I got Asus Strix 1070Ti and still running it today xD
No, we're not sick of watching these cards. They GOAT
Almost. My gtx 750ti had a longer usable lifespan than my 1060 3gb
@@cbats1888 true. Basically the gtx 750ti, 950, 1050ti all died at the same time
A good friend of mine bought my Zotac GTX 1070 and AMD Ryzen 5 1600X off of me to upgrade from his 10 year old gaming machine. He was then gifted an AMD Ryzen 9 3900X, which now feeds the GTX 1070.... He has a projector that displays 1920x1080 at 60Hz, and so I tweaked every game installed on his machine to run as consistently as possible above 60 FPS at the low end under stress so I know that with V-sync enabled all of his games will run 60 FPS solid. I tend to do this for any computer I build and install games to, I try to match the games to the refresh of the target monitor for the smoothest, most consistent gaming experience and to avoid annoying screen tearing at too high or low a frame rate in game, frame tearing drives me nuts. Starting with Forza Horizon 5, full 1920x1080 resolution, graphics all set to high including Ray Tracing. God of War, high and medium settings (and looking stunning still), full resolution. Cyberpunk 2077 so far is the only game that I needed help to get a solid 60 FPS experience, using medium crowd density, high textures and a mixture of medium and high settings in the graphics, with AMD FSR 2.1 set to quality. If I turn FSR off, the FPS is in the 50s and down into the lower 40s. The last game he bought, for his wife and he has been enjoying too, is Hogwarts: Legacy and I set I believe it is native resolution with medium graphics settings without any upscale tricks. All this to be said that what was once an insanely good mid range card is a hell of a budget one now. 8GB of VRAM, and I have seen some good deals on GTX 1070 Ti cards recently as well. Personally, save back just that bit extra to skip the GTX 1060s all together at this point if at all possible. As a last resort, I am impressed with how well both 1060s did, but the GTX 1070 in my experience is still punching well above its weight in 2024. Granted, things like Alan Wake 2 and Last of Us are not likely to be played on my friend's machine, not his style of games, but it would be nice to test those to see how well the card holds up.
We all want to see the mighty battle of the 1060 6GB Vs. RX 580 8GB! And why not, the 1060 3GB vs. the 580 4GB!
I've expected a bigger difference in some games, a little surprised. :')
I had a 3GB 1060 (with i3-8100) setup for a while (2017-2021), it was pretty good for 1080p 60fps before this age of Ray-tracing
How good pascal has have ben that we are still talking about them after 8 years, amazing to see.
Yeah the 10series are the only budget cards so they hold special plAce in majority of gamers ❤
Am using the 1060 6gb bought in the chip shortage and play the latest games. I play ATS and ETS2 forza 5 graphics. Driver updates regularly
I'd like to see the lineup of 10xx cards tested in modern games. The 1070 is my favorite card and, while I upgraded from it years ago, it lives on in a PC I gave a friend of mine and he also loves it.
Yeah, would like to see 1066/1070/1080 comparison! BTW given the fact I've checked a 1080Ti not long ago it pretty much scales perfectly on TGP as I discovered so basically 1070, in theory, should be just about 60 FPS in those games(aside from AW2 of course)
This is exactly to compare RTX 4060 Ti 8GB and 16B version. When you can see textures doesn't loading up on the smaller VRAM card.
I have laptop with 1063 with core i5 4 core 7gen very loud like fighter jet but still ok for gta5 and some NFS games. If you on budget and still have 1066 just keep it.
The GTX 1060 3GB will always hold a special place in my heart. I bought it with the first salary from my very first job. I wanted to get the 6GB version, but I couldn’t afford it at the time. Still, I was happy with what I got back then.
I used to play rdr2 on a 1060 3gb and what bothered me most was that the ground and horse textures looked like minecraft most of the time due to not having enough Vram to select ultra textures (requirement for this game to look nice).
Nice!^^ tho I still miss my EVGA 1060 SSC OC...
Nothing will ever compare lul
dont see any differnce in either, still amazing on the biggest 3A games, coming from Pong in the 1970s, still compareable to all new entry level cards. how little card have changed, unless you buy one with down payment on a new Car money and Pay an extra $100 a month on the power bill
Kind of impressed with both to be honest!
I think DLSS is a great reason to spend a little more for the 20 series though, depending of course on local pricing...
Did you get any missing textures with these cards? VRAM limits can often have strange effects during game play.
first game alan wake 2 has very obvious missing textures on 1060 3gb.
And other games there might be some bits that are worse but its hard to tell through youtube compression and or up scaling artifacts in games with forced fsr. you could turn up texture settings on the 6gb to get a better looking game without losing performance.
Do a 970 vs 1070 vs 2070 vs 3070 comparison to see how the mid range gpu line has changed over generations
The way I look at games is for good 1080p gaming, your GPU needs to value at least as much as a AAA game title (regardless of how bad or overpriced they are)!
its amazing whats still possible on a card with less than 4gb. i wonder what the difference would be like if you turned up the textures for example. there might be a bigger difference between the two.
Just found a 3gb card for £30 near me on marketplace, should be collecting it next friday if it hasnt already sold. Watch this space.
The two graphics cards have different numbers of CUDA cores. The GTX1060 3GB is not actually a 1060.
Yeah the 6gb variant is like a "ti" version but they didnt brand it like that for some dumb reason.
the naming is off - they should have called the 3gb the 1060 and the 6gb the Ti variant. then again, with the 950, it's CUDA count was more like it was a 950Ti (the 1050 and 750 were 640CUDA cards), but Maxwell was a bit more of a bare cupboard for cards.
using a 1060 3gb as we speak, completely sufficient for my needs and is serving me well for the last couple of years, i don't play newest games anyway, but im planning on getting 1070 soon along with a better processor.
Interesting 😮
Got my 1060 6gb for 115$ which was an upgrade from my 1050 2gb and noticed double the performance in all of the games i play except for Valorant
Bought this a long time ago and it has served me well. I've mostly played indie games but I'm fine with having to not play on the Highest settings when I do
Definitely don't buy it for a mid range build in 2024. For a starter gaming rig for your younger sibling or a friend, maybe it's a good starting point
I'd love to see a video pitting the 1060/1070 against the AMD RX 560/570. Those GPUs are also holding up surprisingly well.
the rx 560 was more of a gtx 1050 competitor than a 1060. The rx 570 should hold up pretty well against the 1060 3gb and an rx 580 8gb would be better than the gtx 1060 6gb although way worse than a gtx 1070. Pretty sure Nivida released the gtx 1060 3gb to try and fight the rx 570 4gb.
I have a 2gb 1050ti
Many people dont believe me because 1050tis mostly came 4gb
1050 has 2gb 1050 ti 4 gb
@@amigapelit 2gb 1050tis exist in laptops
desktop or laptop?
Are you saying you have a 1050 Ti desktop or mobile? They might not believe you because you're being unclear. While the same die, the mobile is a different variant and not the same performance or specs obviously.
@@Extrn1488 i dont now laptops models. mouste time laptops vesion can weired cut down vesions comare in desktops cpu's
Yes do 1060 v 1070 v 1080, im currently running 1070 would be interested to see if 1080 would be worth it as a cheapish upgrade. 1070 has been great for 1080p gaming.
Is this a re-upload? I swear I watched this a few hours before this was posted?
@RandomGaminginHD Honestly I was thinking about something lately.. you should be doing more overclocking versus stock speeds type videos here and there. Just a suggestion🎉
Issue with overclocking is every gpu/cpu is different and other components like motherboard and power supply can affect stability + an oc in 1 game might be fine but not the next. Can be interesting as some chips get reputations as OC champs and others can barely go above stock most of the time.
I would love seeing the 1060,1070,1080 vs the 1660 series
In 'Starfield' 3 gig card shows stuttering... ;-)
It just microstutters a bit when the assets are loading. Playing in a lower resolution, turning on upscaling, or installing one of those texture downscaling mods will remove the microstutters as well as improve the average framerate. Comparing how this game performs now to how it was on launch day is night and day, Bethesda has done a good job optimizing this game.
texture load in. apparently devs took shortcuts and even abused AMD-centric code commands, causing buffer issues on Nvidia gear (which i think Todd was sheepishly alluding to when people were saying they had issues running the game and he said its time to buy new gear... he probably meant changing to Team Red, as him and other companies cut costs and dev time by going AMD because of the shortcuts with DX12 games (and why you need shaders generated when you play). The D3DVK devs caught the code abuse when they were looking at the game running on Linux (SteamOS).
Wait. Alan Wake 2 is playable on the 1060 6GB? It was supposed to barely be playable on a 1080 with scaling. I may actually get to try out this game!
I have an I7 4771 laying around that would probably run good with these older cards. 4771 non-k seems kind of rare here. I know you like odd parts. might be common outside US midwest.
Looking back actually, 6GB was pretty generous for a mid-range GPU in 2016.
As was the 3060 12GB.
GTX 1060 vs RX 480 (/ 580) was the peak of the GPU wars. After that it seemed to go downhill...
When I undervolt and overclock my 1660S I found that it equals scores of a 1070 while still being under 130W. 1660S is as low as I would go these days. Maybe RX580 8gb if you absolutely have to stay under $100.
Yes I would love to see the 10’s compared
Horizon Forbidden West will tell everyone that they should have opted for the 6gb back when it was released, the 6gb version will still run many games in few years while the 3gb cannot run some games today. some not even reaching 30fps in 720p low details with scalers...
60fps may be the magic number, but 30fps is usually just fine for single player titles. So the 1060 is fine for a little while longer. If you want to get a slightly lower specced 1060 but with more VRAM, the Quadro P2000 is what I have in my spare PC and it works pretty well, about 3-5fps lower.
It's the vram limitations that'll cause the biggest problem. The 1060 6gb is fine for a while especially with FSR at 1080p but the 3gb 1060 is just hardware crippled so you have textures not loading properly as shown in the video. You might get framerates but textures, environment details etc are just going to chew through 3gb. FSR can't help with that. But some people are ok with that. Personally for me, 6gb vram is bare minimum, 8gb is fine. 3gb vram was quite low at the time the 1060 3gb released compared to the competition. I mean the difference in price between a 1060 6gb and 1060 3gb is a Mcdonald's happy meal today. There's absolutely 0 reason to buy a 3gb 1060
The Palit GTX 1060 JetStream was the first decent gpu i got had a rx 460 before it
The 3GB model should be roughly 10% (sometimes more sometimes less) behind the 6GB model due to the 3GB model being slightly cut down spec wise. At least until you run out of VRAM, then the 3GB model will fall off a cliff sooner than the 6GB model does. Ask me how I know. 😅
Hey man love from India.I have ryzen 5 3600 and gtx 1660 ti 6 gb and want to upgrade to rtx 4060 16 gb vram so should i glt for upgrade with this gpu ?
no test for FF7 rebirth or RDR2 ?
Can you do a comparison of the 1060 3gb to the rx 580 8gb? It might sound like a weird conparison (which it is) but a lot of people might be wondering what card they should replace their 1060 3gb with, while not spending that much money, and I don't currently have a 1060 3gb with to compare them to each other, so I'd think it would be very helpful if you did a comparison for your audience that are on a budget :)
RX580 is like 15% faster if VRAM isn't problem.
so not worth upgrading imo.
@@arms08yuki84 15 percent faster for pennies and the in real life performance is pretty substantial it's the difference between all low settings barely playable to medium settings playable
@@Scornfull 15% is 15%.
RX580 can get 46fps if 1060 gets 40fps average if VRAM isn't issues as I said.
there is more gap of course if you play something VRAM related game or optimized to AMD card.
I guess VEGA56 or 1660(super/ti) will be good for sub 100 bucks nowadays depend on country.
I mean 580 is good choice but not upgrade choice from 1060 3GB imo.
@@arms08yuki84 The majority of modern titles will show a pretty significant gap between the two, you'd have to lower settings to very low to get a playable framerate because of the lack of VRAM, and the RX580 is half the price of that where I'm from (the US) either way it's still a substantial upgrade because almost no modern games can be run at medium settings with just 3 GBs of VRAM anymore it just isn't the case, for 40 dollars there's five more gigs of VRAM, and it's much faster at higher settings. There's tons of videos showing there's a much bigger gap between the full 1060 and the RX 580 8GB let alone the heavily cutdown version
I see that your thing is putting together odd combos and making them perform but do you have anything modern and budget I can build thats good enough for ultra 1080p but cheap???
They just did this again with the 3050 card. Dawid says it should have been named the 3040, lol and I agree.
Yes lets see the 1060 6gb vs 1070 and 1080, and 1080ti!
Would be nice if you could add overclocks difference to.
We'll see how the 4060 and ti version are doing in 8/9 years time. With only 2gb more vram than the better 1060, probably not great. Of course, that depends on future console hardware as it was ps4 support for games that kept decade old graphics cards viable for so long.
The 3060 12GB was card with long life.
The next xx60 champion will be the xx60 24GB (when chip sizes double again).
@@peterpan408 Sure, the 3060 12gb is a decent card - it's the 4060 and especially the £400 ti version with their paltry 8gb of memory I'm not a fan of.
@@andi346208 The 4060 with 8GB is a temporary card for people that upgrade frequently. Faster with less/same memory.
What's the best settings for Fortnite on the 3gb card?
It's not only memory difference, 3gb is using different GPU. It's rather kneecapped.
Surprised the 3GB card held up as well as it did. That said, I wouldn't buy a 3GB card, and would focus on the 6GB card.
Many games that now state the 1060 as the minimum requirement do mention specifically the 3GB card - otherwise, what's the point in having the 1060 as the minimum compared with the 4GB 1050Ti?
4GB at 1080p is fine but if your buying a new card your better off getting 8GB for 10 to 20% more so it can hold up with newer titles.
MSI warning on the fan shroud. xD
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I have gtx 1060 3gb and i5-3570k, no problems here :)
I’m tinkering around with a low cost Dell Desktop (Precision 3620) just curious is 3 gb 1060 a better route than a 1050ti? Reason I’m asking is because I can scoop one up around me for around 40 bucks (US) Thanks
Edit: I should add I’m also looking at a 1650 too with or without a 6 pin connector just because I don’t want to change the psu since its running strong and it’s not my main pc.
whats the lowest end Intel CPU will this work with for VR such as VRchat specifically
Hey man thanks so much for uploading this comparison video. You are pretty much spot on on the prices for both card versions. I have a Zotac 3gb in OE box going for $64 shipped. I also have 2 MSI 6GB cards that will be getting paste and pad maintenance soon with the goal of including them in budget gamer PC's. There are a lot of GTX 1060 6GB cards here in the US market. Do you think that when so many of these and also the RX 580 flood the market, especially near the end of the year, that they were used for mining? That's what I'm thinking because I have had to bios flash a couple. Thanks again for your channel, much appreciated.
Can you do a versus between the 1060 gb vs any 2060 6gb, I'm curious about the difference in performance between the two cards
2060 is like 70% faster or so.
I have my 1060 3gb since 2017 and still runs like new
WOT with 1060 3gb is enough for me so far, I loved it!
Me in 2028: "I ve been rocking this GPU for three playstation generations"
Laptop variants probably won't perform as good as here since most of them come with an i7-8750h at best.
Man playing Hell Let Loose and Tarkov made me think i couldve went with the 6GB
in games like Cs2, Dota and Valorant the 1060 running well in my 12400f, the next Gpu maybe 4060.
8 years with msi 1060 3 gigs didn't really matter since I played mainstream games even heavily nodded fallout 4 and Skyrim
Thanks
I got one for 60$, coming from intel HD graphics can't complain.
How is this old gpu still relevant? Is this my question 😮
Next video overclocking 1060 to his limits?