Review: Asus GeForce GTX 1060 OC 9Gbps

Conclusion

Having new GPUs enter the market periodically keeps things interesting all round. The latest entrant in the premium mainstream space is the GeForce GTX 1060 9Gbps card, released to counter the threat posed by the Radeon RX 580 GPU.

Adding extra memory bandwidth and keeping the core clock lofty, as Asus has done, results in the new model offering a little extra performance, to the tune of about five per cent in a best-case scenario.

The upshot is that one can say GeForce GTX 1060 9Gbps and Radeon RX 580 offer performance parity across a range of games, and both have enough horsepower to make a good fist of FHD and reasonable QHD rendering when set to the most stringent of quality settings.

Factoring in the much better energy efficiency and smaller form factor of the GeForce cards would normally result in a green-team win. However, in this instance, with the review Asus card costing £325, or £100 more than an EVGA card that it only beats by a few per cent, a lack of value inhibits recommendation. Heck, the much faster GTX 1070 isn't that much more.

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The Asus GeForce GTX 1060 OC 9Gbps is available to purchase from Scan Computers.

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