What is the point of buying nVidia GTX 1060

They decided to improve the personal computer, but the budget limits the choice. The market offers to buy a time-hardened, inexpensive game adapter GTX 1060. Almost all the toys in the average settings of the video card are affordable. Just one question worries the future owner, what's the point of buying an nVidia GTX 1060?

 

 

Immediately determine that there are new and used video cards. The secondary market - with 99% confidence can be called mining. After all, a year or two ago, the 1060 nVidia chip very successfully helped to mine cryptocurrency. Therefore, we will only talk about new video adapters.

 

What is the point of buying nVidia GTX 1060

 

The segment of video game cards starts with the 200 mark of American dollars for Europe, and 150 $ for Asia and the USA. 1060 series GTX video cards with three gigabytes of RAM are located in an inexpensive niche.

 

 

In what cases is it beneficial to upgrade. If any nVidia video adapter is available below the GTX 5 series chipset, then the performance gain in toys will be noticeable. Regardless of brand choice. AMD's alternative for upgrade is HD 6970 and lower performance chips.

 

 

The profitability of buying a GTX 1060 is easy to see. The next-best GTX 1070 chip is one and a half times more expensive, and in games it gives an increase of only 20-25%. The price analogue of the 1060 video adapter is AMD RX 580. Very successful, in terms of price and quality, the chip has more RAM on board, but is inferior to 5% in gaming performance.

 

As for the games themselves. A true gamer will tell you exactly what is the point of buying an nVidia GTX 1060 if the picture is in average quality. Where dust, specular reflection in water, falling leaves or objects in FullHD quality. The meaning of the game itself is lost. Indeed, realism is important to the player. And the entry-level game card will never give the desired result.

 

 

As a result, it turns out that the purchase of nVidia GTX 1060, on the one hand, is advantageous in price. But the desired result in the game and complete immersion will not be. And the market for used video adapters is alarming, because the chips after of mining unreliable. Therefore, to choose the user, as always - between price and quality. Nothing has changed in a decade.