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Both GTX 1080 Strix and GTX 1070 Strix were excellent products and received KitGuru's top Must Have award, in many ways the STRIX GTX 1060 is a predictable conclusion since it uses the same cooling solution and overall design philosophy.
ASUS offers the GTX 1060 STRIX OC at £320/$330 and the GTX 1060 STRIX at £300/$310, the latter of which is a fair price given ASUS has other lesser-spec'd GTX 1060 options to cater to lower price points including the GTX 1060 Dual, Dual OC and Turbo. It's also only about 10% more expensive than the Founders Edition, given all the extra features and functionality that's a premium well worth paying.
The ROG STRIX model is about offering the best feature set for the Nvidia GTX 1060 GPU and this card does that. It's built like a tank with a cooling solution that is engineered to handle a GTX 1080, meaning the GTX 1060 is cooled without breaking a sweat.
There are a number of other extra features that add value and justify the price point beyond the excellent cooler. The onboard fan headers are actually a smart idea since, generally speaking, the GPU will be the single biggest heat source in a system so having the GPU temperature dictate the case fan behaviour makes sense. The RGB lighting and backplate help to give a premium finish to the card that other cheaper GTX 1060s lack.
There is an inherent danger though, at least with the OC model, that pricing is falling too close to the GTX 1070s. In the UK these GTX 1070s start from £370 while ASUS expects £320 for the STRIX OC GTX 1060. Arguably the OC model fails to be relevant since the standard clocked model can be overclocked to the same level in seconds, saving customers money and effectively delivering the exact same product.
Our testing also demonstrated that the OC model doesn't bring with it any additional overclocking headroom either.
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Pros
- Astounding cooling performance
- Quiet operation
- RGB functionality
- Backplate
- Passive fan mode at low loads
- 2 x HDMI ports for VR
Cons:
- OC model is too expensive
- Larger than it needs to be for the TDP
KitGuru says: An over-engineered cooling solution and plentiful range of features, the ASUS GTX 1060 STRIX is an excellent upgrade over the Founders Edition.
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Why isn’t there a GTX 980 in this lineup, seeing as it’s supposedly the 1060’s most comparable card? would have been interesting to see the differences between the two.
performance wise, a stock 1060 is like an overclocked 970
Hi N3XUS. While that may be true. Isn’t a heavily overclocked 970 comparable to a stock 980? I’ve heard elsewhere that the 1060 is around the 980 performance wise. Wondered why there wasn’t one included in the lineup. I would have been interested to see where the 1060 lay in between the two (970 and 980).
The card is phenomenal…. Only problem is the price here in Canada… retailers that have this particular model are charging upwards of $459 to $469… Not enough of a performance boost to replace a RX480 ($309 – $329 Canadian) and to close to a GTX 1070 price wise… (I would just step up to 1070 instead of getting this unit).
Hey! Yes, you’re right a 970 with a nice OC can indeed reach 980 levels of performance.
You should check out this vid if you’re still curious: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3W7WX6pjL-M
Why on the first screenshot on GTA V, there is 2048 video memory?
this one, or Gigabyte G1 gaming gtx 1060?
same base and boost clock
I’m sure I answered this question before, maybe it was someone else. Anyway the screenshots are there just to provide the settings we use for benchmarking each game. When these settings screenshots were taken it was a GTX 750 Ti, which has 2GB.
6-8 bucks? That’s not much mate. Learn to use a comma instead of a decimal point ya scamming cunt