NVIDIA GTX 1060 Founders Edition Review @ Vortez

The debut outing for NVIDIA’s slimmer GP106 GPU, the GeForce GTX 1060 effectively replaces both GTX 980 and 970 in NVIDIA’s product stack, starting from $249 for partner cards and $299 for the ‘reference’ Founder’s Edition. On paper performance claims are startling, approaching (and even surpassing) the GTX 980 for substantially less outlay, lower power requirements, and with a far more compact GPU core. In contrast to the transition from the 700-series to the 900-series therefore the GTX 1060 represents a substantial performance improvement at this price bracket, and a key upgrade target for those currently rocking an GTX 960 or earlier GPU.