Review asus rog gtx 1060 6gb năm 2024

Cooling modern video cards is becoming more and more difficult, especially with users asking for a quiet cooling solution, which is why engineers are now paying much more attention to the power consumption of new graphics card designs. An optimized fan-profile is also one of the few things board vendors can create to impress with reference designs where they are prohibited from making changes to the thermal solution or components on the card.

For this test, we measure the power consumption of only the graphics card via the PCI-Express power connector(s) and PCI-Express bus slot. A Keithley Integra 2700 digital multimeter with 6.5-digit resolution is used for all measurements. Again, these values only reflect the card's power consumption as measured at its DC inputs, not that of the whole system.

We use Metro: Last Light as a standard test for typical 3D gaming usage because it offers the following: very high power draw; high repeatability; is a current game that is supported on all cards; drivers are actively tested and optimized for it; supports all multi-GPU configurations; test runs in a relatively short time and renders a non-static scene with variable complexity.

Our results are based on the following tests:

• Idle: Windows 10 sitting at the desktop (1920x1080) with all windows closed and drivers installed. The card is left to warm up in idle mode until power draw is stable.
• Multi-monitor: Two monitors are connected to the tested card, and both use different display timings. Windows 10 is sitting at the desktop (1920x1080+1280x1024) with all windows closed and drivers installed. The card is left to warm up in idle mode until power draw is stable. When using two identical monitors with the same timings and resolution, power consumption will be lower. Our test represents the usage model of many productivity users who have one big screen and a small monitor on the side.
• Blu-ray Playback: Power DVD 15 Ultra is used at a resolution of 1920x1080 to play back the Batman: The Dark Knight Blu-ray disc with GPU acceleration turned on. Measurements start around timecode 1:19, which has the highest data rates on the BD with up to 40 Mb/s. Playback keeps running until power draw converges to a stable value.
• Average: Metro: Last Light at 1920x1080 because it is representative of a typical gaming power draw. The average of all readings (12 per second) while the benchmark was rendering (no title/loading screen) is used. In order to heat up the card, the benchmark is run once without measuring power consumption.
• Peak: Metro: We use Last Light at 1920x1080 as it produces power draw typical to gaming. The highest single reading during the test is used.
• Maximum: We use Furmark Stability Test at 1600x900, 0xAA. This results in a very high no-game power-consumption reading that can typically only be reached with stress-testing applications. We report the highest single reading after a short startup period. Initial bursts during startup are not included as they are too short to be relevant.

Power consumption results of other cards on this page are measurements of the respective reference design.

NVIDIA's Pascal architecture brings massive improvements to power efficiency, and the GTX 1060 Founders Edition reference design is the most power efficient card we have ever tested in non-gaming states. ASUS's card is close behind, but draws about 1-2 watts more, which is still a very good result.

During gaming, power draw is increased a bit, less than 20 watts, compared to the Founders Edition. Considering the 6% performance improvement due to OC, and this 12% increase, the overall efficiency lost is around 5%. Not untypical for a custom design.

Furmark maximum power is extremely low at 127 watts, which is laughable given ASUS upgraded the card to use an 8-pin power connector instead of the 6-pin on other boards - which would have been plenty for such power draw figures. A higher board power limit would have also enabled Boost 3.0 to boost higher for longer, providing additional performance benefits out of the box.

We discovered a couple of months ago that NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 1060 delivers excellent 1080p performance and admirable 1440p performance, so what happens when ASUS straps on an even larger cooler and gives the card an overclock? Well, we get the Strix, an LED-equipped beast of a card that runs cool and quiet.

We discovered this past summer that NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 1060 is quite an effective card at its suggested price of ~$249 (6GB model), delivering superb 1080p performance, and solid 1440p performance. As impressive as it was, though, there’s always a little room for improvement, right? ASUS thinks so, and it has its Strix edition to help prove it.

Whereas the reference Founders Edition of the GTX 1060 features a leaf-blower style fan under a closed metal shroud, ASUS offers a beefed-up fin array with its Strix and tops the open shroud with three fans. That makes the Strix edition bulkier overall versus the Founders Edition, but as we’ll see later, the trade-off of space is worth it.

The GTX 1060 Strix supports a couple of predefined modes, with the shipping one being “Gaming”. In that mode, the card supports a GPU Boost clock of 1847MHz. When the GPU TweakII software is installed, “OC Mode” can be used instead, to increase the clock further, to 1873MHz. In the real-world, the top-end of each value will be even higher, something I’ll take a look at on the final page. The important thing to note is that the Strix edition is an overclocked GTX 1060, so out-of-the-gate, it’ll perform much better than a Founders Edition – as we’ll see soon.

Time for some hardware porn:

ASUS equips the GTX 1060 Strix with a DVI-D port, dual HDMI ports, and dual DisplayPorts. While NVIDIA’s design sports a 6-pin power connector, ASUS includes an 8-pin for the sake of possibly improved stability and improved overclocking potential.

As seen in one of the shots above, Strix also includes a backplate, and unlike most, it actually adds to the style of the card. Overall, the entire card is great-looking; it’s not flashy, and would look good in any build. OK – perhaps “not flashy” is incorrect phrasing, as under the shroud, a customizable LED can be found. With downloadable software called Aura, you can change the LED mode and color – great for those wanting to add a bit of pizzazz to their build. Don’t want color? You can turn the LED feature off entirely.

If you’re indifferent to the color of the LED, but use a windowed PC so that you can see the card, you can also use a feature that adjusts the card’s color based on temperature: green for modest temperatures, and yellow/red for peaked temperatures.

NVIDIA GeForce Series Cores Core MHz Memory Mem MHz Mem Bus TDP TITAN X 3584 1417 12288MB 10000 384-bit 250W GeForce GTX 1080 2560 1607 8192MB 10000 256-bit 180W GeForce GTX 1070 1920 1506 8192MB 8000 256-bit 150W GeForce GTX 1060 1280 ≤1700 6144MB 8000 192-bit 120W

As seen in the table above, the GTX 1060 sits at the bottom of NVIDIA’s current line-up, although that’s not a bad thing considering it’s still a midrange card (the GTX 1050 is rumored to make an appearance soon). So what’s that mean in performance terms? In our opinion:

NVIDIA GeForce Series 1080p 1440p 3440×1440 4K TITAN X Overkill Overkill Excellent Great GeForce GTX 1080 Overkill Excellent Excellent Good GeForce GTX 1070 Excellent Great Good Poor GeForce GTX 1060 Great Good Poor Poor Overkill: 60 FPS? More like 100 FPS. As future-proofed as it gets. Excellent: Surpass 60 FPS at high quality settings with ease. Great: Hit 60 FPS with high quality settings. Good: Nothing too impressive; it gets the job done (60 FPS will require tweaking). Poor: Expect real headaches from the awful performance.

As a “Great” 1080p card, the GTX 1060 will hit 60 FPS pretty effortlessly in most of today’s games, although it might not be common to be able to top-out a game’s graphics settings at that resolution with future titles. “Good” for 1440p means that compromises will have to be made in most of today’s current games in order to hit 60 FPS.

What that means for the Strix is that those values would be even more emphasized. It’d take a lot more than a clock boost to upgrade any of these values, though.

Testing Notes

When we need to build a test PC for performance testing, “no bottleneck” is the name of the game. While we admit that few of our readers are going to be equipped with an Intel 8-core processor clocked to 4GHz, we opt for such a build to make sure our GPU testing is as apples-to-apples as possible, with as little variation as possible. Ultimately, the only thing that matters here is the performance of the GPUs, so the more we can rule out a bottleneck, the better.

That all said, our test PC:

Graphics Card Test System Processors Intel Core i7-5960X (8-core) @ 4.0GHz Motherboard ASUS X99 DELUXE Memory Kingston HyperX Beast 32GB (4x8GB) – DDR4-2133 11-12-11 Graphics AMD Radeon R9 Nano 4GB – Catalyst 16.5.3 AMD Radeon RX 480 8GB – Catalyst 16.6.2 Beta NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 4GB – GeForce 365.22 NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN X 12GB – GeForce 365.22 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB – GeForce 368.64 (Beta) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB GeForce 372.90 (ASUS Strix) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 8GB – GeForce 368.19 (Beta) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 8GB – GeForce 368.25 Audio Onboard Storage Kingston SSDNow V310 1TB SSD Power Supply Cooler Master Silent Pro Hybrid 1300W Chassis Cooler Master Storm Trooper Full-Tower Cooling Thermaltake WATER3.0 Extreme Liquid Cooler Displays Acer Predator X34 34″ Ultra-wide Acer XB280HK 28″ 4K G-SYNC ASUS MG279Q 27″ 1440p FreeSync Et cetera Windows 10 Pro (10586) 64-bit

Framerate information for all tests – with the exception of certain time demos and DirectX 12 tests – are recorded with the help of Fraps. For tests where Fraps use is not ideal, I use the game’s built-in test (the only option for DX12 titles right now). In the past, I’ve tweaked the Windows OS as much as possible to rule out test variations, but over time, such optimizations have proven fruitless. As a result, the Windows 10 installation I use is about as stock as possible, with minor modifications to suit personal preferences.

In all, I use 8 different games for regular game testing, and 3 for DirectX 12 testing. That’s in addition to the use of three synthetic benchmarks. Because some games are sponsored, the list below helps oust potential bias in our testing.

(AMD) – Ashes of the Singularity (DirectX 12) (AMD) – Battlefield 4 (AMD) – Crysis 3 (AMD) – Hitman (DirectX 12) (NVIDIA) – Metro: Last Light Redux (NVIDIA) – Rise Of The Tomb Raider (incl. DirectX 12) (NVIDIA) – The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (Neutral) – DOOM (Neutral) – Grand Theft Auto V (Neutral) – Total War: ATTILA

If you’re interested in benchmarking your own configuration to compare to our results, you can download this file (5MB) and make sure you’re using the exact same graphics settings. I’ll lightly explain how I benchmark each test before I get into each game’s performance results.

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