Nvidia GTX 1060 Founders Edition Review

Test Setup

nVidia GTX 1060 Founders Edition
Intel i7 6850K
ASUS X99 Strix
Corsair ROG Dominator Platinum 3200
Corsair RM1000i
Corsair LX 512GB OS
Corsair LS 480GB x2 Raid0 Games
Corsair H100i V2
Windows 10

Overclocking

Speaking of developing things that they then don’t take advantage of, the GTX 1060 doesn’t support nVidia GPU Boost 3.0. With mid-range cards being aimed squarely at the fit-and-forget brigade it’s curious that nVidia have developed something which works as flawlessly as the latest iteration of GPU Boost, only to not include it.

So it’s back to the old overclocking methods, and the GTX 1060 certainly responds to being given a kick up the posterior.

  

400MHz over and above the stock card is unbelievably good, particularly given the single fan nature of the cooler. Excellent stuff, which only makes the inability to run a pair of these in SLI even more galling.