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MSI GTX 1060 6GB Gaming X Review

Power consumption was measured after 10 minutes of load under three scenarios: Furmark GPU stress test, Unigine Valley looping at the Extreme HD preset and desktop idle. The measurement was taking using an Energenie ENER007 power meter and measured for the whole system, excluding the monitor.

While Furmark and desktop idle provide stable and consistent power read-outs, Unigine Valley does not so the power reading is taken as the highest value in Scene 1 of 18.

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Typical gaming power consumption was slightly lower for the MSI GTX 1060 versus the ASUS GTX 1060, likely reflecting the clock speed deficit. On the other hand, Furmark power consumption was about 15-watts higher for no easily explainable reason.

In the grand scheme of things the GTX 1060 is still a very power efficient card and AMD's rival card, the RX 480, is 30-50 watts more thirsty based on our testing.

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3 comments

  1. ‘There is certainly no shortage of options when it comes to choosing a GTX 1060 graphics card.’ You are joking right? They are mostly not in stock, apart from the fairly crappy Zotac mini. Do you people actually live on the same planet as those who actually want to buy a 1060?

  2. Shortage of options and shortage of stock are not the same thing. Aside, there’s plenty of stock if you’re willing to shop around a bit.

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