GALAX GeForce GTX 1060 OC 6GB Video Card
Test Setup and Performance
To test the card we will be doing some synthetic and real life gaming benchmarks.
Test Setup
CPU: Intel Core i7-5930K
Motherboard: Asus Sabertooth X79
Memory: Crucial Ballistix 16g
Hard Drive: OCZ Vertex 3 120GB SSD Drive
Power Supply: OCZ ModEtream Pro 700W PSU
Synthetic Benchmarks:
3D Mark 11
3DMark
Gaming Benchmarks:
Sniper Elite III
Rise of the Tomb Raider – Valley Farmstead
DOTA 2
Hitman: Absolution
“3DMark 11 is a DirectX 11 video card benchmark test for measuring your PC’s gaming performance. 3DMark 11 makes extensive use of DirectX 11 features including tessellation, compute shaders and multi-threading. Trusted by gamers worldwide to give accurate and unbiased results, 3DMark 11 consistently and reliably tests your PC’s DirectX 11 performance under game-like loads.”

“3D Mark’s Fire Strike is a showcase DirectX 11 benchmark designed for today’s high-performance gaming PCs. It is our most ambitious and technical benchmark ever, featuring real-time graphics rendered with detail and complexity far beyond what is found in other benchmarks and games today.”

“3DMark Sky Diver is a DirectX 11 benchmark for gaming laptops and mid-range PCs. Use 3DMark Sky Diver to benchmark systems with mainstream graphics cards, mobile GPUs, or integrated graphics. It is especially suitable for DirectX 11 systems that cannot achieve more than single-digit frame rates in the more demanding Fire Strike test.”
“Cloud Gate is a new test that is designed for Windows notebooks and typical home PCs. Cloud Gate includes two graphics tests and a physics test. Cloud Gate uses a DirectX 11 engine limited to Direct3D feature level 10 making it suitable for testing DirectX 10 compatible hardware”

