Galax Nvidia (60NRJ7DSX1PO) 6GB GTX 1060 OC (Red Black version) PCI-E VGA Card
Overview
GALAX GeForce® GTX 1060 OC shines with innovative new gaming technologies, making it the perfect choice for the latest high-definition games and is VR Ready. Powered by NVIDIA Pascal™—the most advanced GPU architecture ever created—the GALAX GeForce® GTX 1060 OC delivers brilliant performance that opens the door to virtual reality and beyond.
Troll?
Me or the original article?
I have looked at other Nvidia 6GB GTX 1060 and they seem to be $300+
I was planning to add a video card to the machine (I have an older NVIDIA I tried, it does some 25FPS vs 5FPS inbuilt on my preferred game)
Honestly asking for opinions…
You can also look at this thread from when I was asking for opinions about the build…
https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/445179
Yes for the price I have 3gb version that I paid 285 for on special- works well for everything I play @ 75hz on 32” screen
Might help if you give examples of the kind of games you want to play and at what resolution.
To OP; seems ideal if you want occasional gaming or have productivity applications that can utilise nVidia hardware. Definitely much better than your current integrated/onboard graphics that aren't often supported by games.
Galax is midrange hardware and the NV GTX1060 is good performance for the money (especially at this price) for standard full HD gaming, but not great if you're hardcore gamer looking for ultra settings and high FPS in 4K, or you want top dollar features like ray-tracing.
@cristtos: do you need it now?
this is last gen card, at this price not even attractive
new card 1660 has released
wait a month or 2, price will come down further
https://www.ozbargain.com.au/product/nvidia-geforce-gtx-1660
@dcep: That's true, but 1660 currently isn't a big improvement over this card from benchmarks.
Although 1660 could improve further as driver updates are released?
RTX2060 seems to be more of an improvement, but for more than double the price RRP probably not worth OP considering.
@buffalo bill: Apart from new features like turing nvenc encoder for streaming,
1660 capable of OC to match 1660Ti which is 1070 level performance.
1060 OC has no chance to even come close to stock 1070.
Yes, if you have 1060 then don't bother 1660.
Else, 1060-6gb at 269 is nothing special when it underperforms a RX580, or even RX570 can match it close in some games.
Never buy a card on RRP.
Last ebay sales, RTX2060 can be had for $470.
@cristtos: phunkydude might be onto something. Maybe wait until end of month / start of next month, might start to get some end of financial year deals then.
https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/451626 was an Asus 1660 OC last month for $10 more than this and was a better deal.
Daam, is this better Value then the 580?
no
Oh, well OK than
is this good enough to run total war three kingdom in 1440p?
no , unless everything on low and sub 50fps is good enough
*1060 is faster than the GTX 970 listed in the recommended specs. For 1440p, you'd either need to expect around 30fps or run many settings around medium. So I'd say it is very doable if you are okay with that.
PC Minimum Specifications (Integrated)
Expected around 25-35 FPS on campaign map and in a 1v1, 21 units vs 21 units battle, default graphics preset set to "Low", running at 1280×720
Operating System: Windows 7 64 Bit
Processor: i7-8550U 1.80GHz
RAM: 6GB
Video Card: Intel UHD Graphics 620
PC Minimum Specifications (Discrete)
Expected around 25-35 FPS on campaign map and in a 1v1, 21 units vs 21 units battle, default graphics preset set to "Low", running at 1280×720
Operating System: Windows 7 64 Bit
Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo 3.00Ghz
RAM: 4GB
Video Card: GTX 650 Ti | HD 7850 1GB VRAM
PC Recommended Specifications
Expected around 45-55 FPS on campaign map and in a 1v1, 21 units vs 21 units battle, default graphics preset set to "High", running at 1920×1080
Operating System: Windows 10 64 Bit
Processor: Intel i5-6600 | Ryzen 5 2600X
RAM: 8GB
Video Card: GTX 970 | R9 Fury X 4GB VRAM
PC 60 FPS+ Specifications
Expect 60 FPS+ on campaign map and in a 1v1, 21 units vs 21 units battle, default graphics preset set to "Ultra", running at 1920×1080
Operating System: Windows 10 64 Bit
Processor: Intel Core Intel i7-8700K
RAM: 8GB
Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060
At this price I'd go for a RX580.
Why is that? Isn't the 1060 supposed to be more efficient and is 20-30% more better for overall performance than the 580? From what I have read anywayz.
580 performs better (seems to be by about ~10% in recent titles and gap is only getting bigger). It does use more power but you can undervolt it so it's not noticeable.
Yea other way around now days the RX580 is way in front. I think with AMD cards its more of a driver issue, Not that the card are not capable once they catch up with drivers it helps.
You also get an extra 2gb of ram for around the same price as this deal. I think i have seen the RX580 cheaper than this price?
https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/440550
Went looking for comparisons 1060 6gb Vs Rx 580 as my past experience was the 1060 was always on par or just ahead
As you said - AMD Drivers must have come along way
I prefer Nvidia - but Its good to see AMD Catching up and now surpassing
I also would recommend the 580 over the 1060 - specially due to free-sync
@Jettblack: Nvidia cards now support VESA adaptive sync from 10 series up.They may have update the drivers further now for other cards to support it not sure.
So the cards should be fine with (FreeSync) monitors which is AMD name for adaptive sync.
Have the Galax 2080 Ti listed in that sale; Great card for that price.
Is this something worth putting into my new machine (I7-9770K)?
I was using inbuilt graphics - good for all Usual windows work but I like to play games occasionally (in stereo vision, I use a Sony 3D TV as my display)
I do not need cutting edge performance but a reasonable no frame ripping view.
Price is within my range but never hear of "Galax"…