MSI GeForce GTX 1060 Gaming X 6 GB

[rtwjunkie]

The latest reviews from many popular tech sites, including this one; have skewed their tests in favor of Team Green to the point where one must question their integrity

If that's how you feel, then why are you not hanging out at one of the sites that NVIDIA supposedly did NOT pay for? Why are you still here saying the respected @W1zzard is a paid NVIDIA hack?

 

[Ungari]

If that's how you feel, then why are you not hanging out at one of the sites that NVIDIA supposedly did NOT pay for? Why are you still here saying the respected @W1zzard is a paid NVIDIA hack?

I emphatically disagree with the testing used in these reviews, and notice that these reviewers did their bidding and followed Nvidia's Review Testing guidelines.
However, I cannot say for certain that they all took baksheesh, only that they knowingly and willfully and used tests that gave a false contrast between Pascal and Polaris.

Why are you not outraged that these cards were not tested using the DX12 and Vulkan APIs, and that the 4GB RX480 was not shown in the Dollar Per Frame analysis where it clearly is the best performance for the cost?

 

[birdie]

I emphatically disagree with the testing used in these reviews, and notice that these reviewers did their bidding and followed Nvidia's Review Testing guidelines.
However, I cannot say for certain that they all took baksheesh, only that they knowingly and willfully and used tests that gave a false contrast between Pascal and Polaris.

Why are you not outraged that these cards were not tested using the DX12 and Vulkan APIs, and that the 4GB RX480 was not shown in the Dollar Per Frame analysis where it clearly is the best performance for the cost?

If you dislike the reviews posted here so much why don't you go to other tech sites which did "proper" (read catered to AMD) reviews? W1zzard includes perhaps the widest selection of games on the whole internet, so in fact, his review is the most unbiased because it's the most valuable for a gamer out there. While your pro-AMD websites test the games you want the way you want and what's the net result? You delude yourself into believing in AMD's superiority when the sad reality differs from your delusions (unless of course you solely play the games which favour GCN).

 

[Ungari]

If you dislike the reviews posted here so much why don't you go to other tech sites which did "proper" (read catered to AMD) reviews? W1zzard includes perhaps the widest selection of games on the whole internet, so in fact, his review is the most unbiased because it's the most valuable for a gamer out there. While your pro-AMD websites test the games you want the way you want and what's the net result? You delude yourself into believing in AMD's superiority when the sad reality differs from your delusions (unless of course you solely play the games which favour GCN).

First of all, I do not go to "pro-AMD websites". I don't even know of any such sites.
I'm not your typical AMD Fanboi, as I have been critical of both Teams for years. However, this year is different.
This year is where we can see AMD taking a leadership role in the innovation of new technology that will have an impact on gaming in the near future.
From the moment I first started reading this site regularly, I noticed a problem with Wizzard's reviews of the 1080, where he did not use the Factory OC preset in the benchmarks.
This was on an Nvidia product!

 

[rtwjunkie]

From the moment I first started reading this site regularly, I noticed a problem with Wizzard's reviews of the 1080, where he did not use the Factory OC preset in the benchmarks.

Actually, W1zzard was one of only two reviewers that realized MSI, not NVIDIA duped them, and took appropriate action.

 

[Ungari]

Actually, W1zzard was one of only two reviewers that realized MSI, not NVIDIA duped them, and took appropriate action.

MSI and ASUS did not dupe anyone.
Reviewers like Wizzard weren't using the OC Factory Preset Mode in their benchmarks, which is what a prospective buyer needs to see to make an informed purchasing decision; and so they shipped the cards using this mode.
There is nothing deceptive here, as this factory OC, and the Quiet presets, are the main features of these cards.
The entire "tested the card out of the box" argument makes no sense for a card that has multiple preset clocks.

 

[xorbe]

Some of us don't like it install the bloatware needed to select the other mode, so however the card defaults is what we get.

 

[Ungari]

Some of us don't like it install the bloatware needed to select the other mode, so however the card defaults is what we get.

Anyone who would buy this card and not either use the factory presets, or not manually OC it, has bought the wrong card.
Might as well get a reference board with the AIB cooler and save the difference in price.

Here are the comparative Vulkan and DX12 API benchmarks that were neglected by too many reviewers:

 

[rruff]

Here are the comparative Vulkan and DX12 API benchmarks that were neglected by too many reviewers

Stock clocks, 480 wins 6 out of 10. But the 480 is near the limit while the 1060 will typically add ~15% over reference even with the crappy FE. Plus didn't someone post a comment from Doom developers earlier that their Vulcan implementation was specifically designed for AMD, and that they could tweak it for better Nvidia performance in the future?

 

[Night]

Top notch GPU from MSI as usual, I wonder how this GPU would compare to Gigabyte's 1060 G1 GAMING. G1 seems to be somewhat cheaper in my region.

 

[i7Baby]

I think the prices should be checked again to come up with the performance per dollar info.

And I'm wondering if latest drivers were used, how much the performance figures would change.

 

[Mussels]

Top notch GPU from MSI as usual, I wonder how this GPU would compare to Gigabyte's 1060 G1 GAMING. G1 seems to be somewhat cheaper in my region.

all the 10x0 G1 cards have fan rattling issues, not very popular here on TPU