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Best Bench: 60% Gigabyte(1458 371D)
Worst Bench: 51% MSI(1462 3490) ≥ 4GB

Poor: 51% Great: 60%

SPEED RANK: 119^th / 714

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Best Bench: 293% XFX(1EAE 7901) ≥ 4GB
Worst Bench: 216% PowerColor(148C 2422) ≥ 4GB

Poor: 216% Great: 293%

SPEED RANK: 4^th / 714


Effective 3D Speed Effective 3D Gaming GPU Speed		56.1 %			257 %	Hugely faster effective speed. +358%


Lighting Avg. Locally-deformable PRT (Bat)	69.6 fps	327 fps	Hugely better lighting effects. +370%
Reflection Avg. High dynamic range lighting (Teapot)	76.8 fps	435 fps	Hugely better reflection handling. +466%
MRender Avg. Render target array GShader (Sphere)	65.8 fps	519 fps	Hugely faster multi rendering. +689%
Gravity Avg. NBody particle system (Galaxy)	70 fps	303 fps	Hugely faster NBody calculation. +333%


Lighting Locally-deformable PRT (Bat)	75.4 fps	392 fps	Hugely better peak lighting effects. +420%
Reflection High dynamic range lighting (Teapot)	109 fps	520 fps	Hugely better peak reflection handling. +377%
MRender Render target array GShader (Sphere)	70.1 fps	578 fps	Hugely faster peak multi rendering. +725%
Gravity NBody particle system (Galaxy)	74.9 fps	335 fps	Hugely faster peak NBody calculation. +347%

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Market Share Market Share (trailing 30 days)	2.06 %	Hugely higher market share. +836%	0.22 %
Value Value For Money	114 %	Hugely better value. +87%	60.9 %
User Rating UBM User Rating	88 %	Much more popular. +52%	58 %
Price Price (score)	$117	Hugely cheaper. +88%	$1,000


Age Newest	93 Months	16 Months	Hugely more recent. +83%
Parallax Parallax occlusion mapping (Stones)	73.3 fps	848 fps	Insanely better peak texture detail. +1,057%
Splatting Force Splatted Flocking (Swarm)	70.6 fps	502 fps	Hugely faster peak complex splatting. +611%
Parallax Avg. Parallax occlusion mapping (Stones)	66.9 fps	761 fps	Insanely better texture detail. +1,038%
Splatting Avg. Force Splatted Flocking (Swarm)	65.7 fps	460 fps	Hugely faster complex splatting. +600%

The GTX 1060 is Nvidia’s third 16 nm Pascal based GPU. It follows last month’s release of the higher end GTX 1070 and 1080. The 1060 has a TDP of 120 Watts and its aftermarket variants are available right away alongside the reference Founders edition. Comparing the GTX 1060 and 970 shows that although the 1060 leads by 12% it is also currently more expensive. Nvidia rushed the release of the GTX 1060 to help retain market share that may otherwise have gone to AMD’s new Polaris based RX 480. Comparing the RX 480 and GTX 1060 shows that for pre DX12 games the 1060 edges ahead by 12%. Due to better hardware compatibility, the RX 480 is able to match the 1060 in DX12 games but this will remain a corner case until most games are optimized for DX12 (likely to take several years). The 1060 has the potential to become a hugely successful card provided prices settle appropriately. ^{[Jul '16 GPUPro]}

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AMD’s new 7900 series GPUs received a lot of pre-launch hype. There were claims of 50-70% performance improvements over the previous flagship. Our benchmarks show that the 7900-XTX leads the 6950-XT by around 30%. AMD overhype their product launches because it is effective at getting first-time buyers to pay over MRSP. After an initial burst in sales, prices often drop rapidly, as with the 6900 XT and the recently launched Zen 4 7950X, which are now both 30% cheaper. AMD’s domination of social media platforms has historically resulted in millions of users purchasing sub standard products, those users will be very hard, if not impossible for AMD to win back. If this trend continues, semiconductors may become a secondary business line for AMD, who appear more focused on developing “Advanced Marketing” relationships with select youtubers and media outlets. Based on the volume of social media/press coverage, you would never guess that the combined market share for all of AMD’s Radeon 5000 and 6000 GPUs amongst PC gamers is just 2.12% (Steam stats). Be wary of sponsored reviews (golden samples+cherry picked games) that showcase the wins and gloss over the losses whilst conveniently ignoring frame drops. Despite steady price cuts, an increasing number of seasoned gamers simply have no interest in buying AMD products. They know from bitter experience that headline average fps are worthless when they are accompanied with stutters, random crashes, excessive noise and a limited feature set. Most gamers, who are better off playing at 1080p, will do well to wait for Nvidia’s upcoming 4060/4070 series cards (est. early 2023). Even brand fans that wish to be in AMD’s “2%” club, will find better deals after the launch hype settles. Shoppers should avoid AMD’s reference design as many users are reporting thermal issues. ^{[Dec '22 GPUPro]}

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Intel Core i5-13600K $279	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $134	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
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WD Blue 1TB (2012) $35	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $43	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16

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