8 Jan 2021 - Graphics card reviewed

Gamers upgrading will be considering the GeForce GTX 1060 EVGA FTW GAMING ACX 3.0 graphics card as a serious price to performance entry point. This card will meet and play most demanding AAA games and do so with good graphics setting as standard, and confidently pushing past the recommended game system requirements needed to run today’s games. GeForce GTX 1060 EVGA FTW GAMING ACX 3.0 is capable of DirectX 12 gaming requirements.

Here we take a closer look at the various performances across 1080p, 1440p and 4K screen resolutions for the GeForce GTX 1060 EVGA FTW GAMING ACX 3.0. In particular this is looking at the Ultra graphics settings to see what sort of FPS this graphics card can get across some of the more popular games played in 2021. 750 games can be played by this graphics card of the 1000 most demanding games being played by PC gamers today.

Now onto the frame rates achieved at 1080p. We are seeing Cyberpunk 2077 getting 53 FPS with the GeForce GTX 1060 EVGA FTW GAMING ACX 3.0, Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War getting 60 FPS and Hitman 3 predicted to get 38 frames per second. All run on Ultra at 1920x1080 screen res.

With PC gamers looking for larger screen sizes like 1440p we tested the GeForce GTX 1060 EVGA FTW GAMING ACX 3.0 by playing Cyberpunk 2077 which yielded a playable performance. Its FPS results for the graphics settings are as follows - L: 106FPS, M: 83FPS, H: 56FPS, U: 40FPS. Another popular game we tested with this card was Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War and that was reasonable. This graphics card delivered 45 FPS at Ultra 1440p. Another popular title was Hitman 3 which is predicted to get playable results with a 29FPS on Ultra 1440p. Getting popular modern games to run at 1440p on the GeForce GTX 1060 EVGA FTW GAMING ACX 3.0 is a reasonable performance fit for this resolution. Some of the more resource intensive games may well need a few graphical tweak to get the most out of the graphics card at this increased resolution.

How many years will the GeForce GTX 1060 EVGA FTW GAMING ACX 3.0 graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the GeForce GTX 1060 EVGA FTW GAMING ACX 3.0 in your PC? Upgrade time for this GPU is currently placed at 2 years

Whats a good PC graphics upgrade for the GeForce GTX 1060 EVGA FTW GAMING ACX 3.0? A suitable upgrade choice for the GeForce GTX 1060 EVGA FTW GAMING ACX 3.0 is the 16 Series GeForce GTX 1660 Ti 6GB, which is 21% more powerful and can run 821 of the 1000 most demanding PC games beating their recommended requirements. Alternatively a good choice when looking to upgrade the GeForce GTX 1060 EVGA FTW GAMING ACX 3.0 would be the R-500 Series Radeon RX Vega 56 8GB which meets 917 of the 1000 top game’s recommended system requirements and has 27% better performance.