This has been an enjoyable exploration for us evaluating TV 4K gaming and we hope that our experience may help serve as a 4K TV PC gaming 2017 holiday guide for our readers. The very best 4K is experienced on a large display, and we would recommend a PC d...
Unlike the RX Vega 64 Liquid Cooled edition which fell quite short of its performance target of the GTX 1080 Ti and barely matched the GTX 1080, the RX Vega 56 is faster than the GTX 1070 FE. Using performance as our primary metric, at $399, the RX Vega 5...
Unconstrained Framerate Chart LeaderboardHere is the unconstrained FPS leaderboard summary for our 10 VR games which allows us to see how quickly the system could have displayed the frames if not for the fixed 90 Hz refresh cadence. The GTX 1080/Ti and th...
Abstract: Last Monday, AMD released its new Vega 64 processor in a vain attempt to beat the GTX 1080 and to take the performance crown from NVIDIA's GTX 1080 Ti. Since the reference version throttles performance due to inadequate cooling, BTR purchased a Gigabyte R...
Abstract: It's been about six months since BTR compared the RX 480 versus the GTX 1060 and versus the 290X. It will be interesting to see if there have been any major performance changes since then. Has AMD neglected Hawaii in favor of Polaris, and what about Pasca...
This has been quite an interesting exploration for us in evaluating the overclocked $199 Red Devil RX 470 versus the overclocked $199 EVGA GTX 1060 3GB Gaming edition. The GTX 1060 3GB is a faster card at stock, and due to its superior headroom for overcl...
The EVGA GTX 1060 3GB beats the Red Devil RX 470 overall in performance at a similar price, With one 6-pin PCIe connector, TDP and power draw are good and it is quiet in comparison to the reference GTX 1060 Founders Edition. ACX 2.0 cooling is very effect
The video memory at 3GB limits the GTX 1060 to 1920×1080 resolution
If you are buying a fast video card right now and looking for good performance for a better than entry-level VR or for maxed out 1920×1080, the EVGA GTX 1060 3GB is an excellent choice. The GTX 1060 beats its competition the reference or factory-overclock...
Performance summary chartHere are the summary charts of 25 games and 2 synthetic tests. The highest settings are always chosen and it is usually DX11; DX12 is picked above DX11 where available, and the settings are ultra or maxed. Specific settings are li...
If you are buying a top performing video card right now and looking for the highest performance at a really good price, the GTX 1070 is the only choice since the GTX 1080 is much more expensive...
Abstract: Drive Me CrazyThrustmaster hardware and Dirt Rally in VR finally make racing realDriving games have been around in one form or another since Commodore 64 days, and before that at the arcade. What always annoyed me about them was their lack of reality. I k...
