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MSI GeForce GTX 1060 Gaming X 6GB GDDR5 PCIe

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Price: $395

  • MSI GeForce GTX 1060 Gaming X 6GB GDDR5 PCIe
  • MSI GeForce GTX 1060 Gaming X 6GB GDDR5 PCIe
  • MSI GeForce GTX 1060 Gaming X 6GB GDDR5 PCIe
  • MSI GeForce GTX 1060 Gaming X 6GB GDDR5 PCIe
  • MSI GeForce GTX 1060 Gaming X 6GB GDDR5 PCIe
  • MSI GeForce GTX 1060 Gaming X 6GB GDDR5 PCIe
90

TechSpot Metascore

Based on 15 expert reviews
  • Excellent:
    11
  • Good:
    4
  • Average:
    0
  • Bad:
    0
9.4

User Score

Based on 844 reviews
as rated by Amazon users

Pros:

  • Brawny performance for a midrange video card
  • Easily overclocked
  • Well suited to FHD or QHD gaming

Cons:

  • Expensive among GTX 1060 partner cards
  • Card is much bigger than Founders Edition
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  • Price:
  • $395 on Amazon
Last revision on July 6, 2018

Editors Liked

  • Brawny performance for a midrange video card
  • Easily overclocked
  • Well suited to FHD or QHD gaming
  • Three year warranty
  • Extremely quiet
  • Backplate included

Editors Didn't Like

  • Expensive among GTX 1060 partner cards
  • Card is much bigger than Founders Edition
  • Availability limited at debu
  • Like other GTX 1060s, no SLI support
  • Memory not overclocked

Direct Competitors and Related Products

  • 82

    AMD Radeon RX 550

  • 79

    AMD Radeon RX 570

  • 92

    Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070

  • 91

    Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080

  • 89

    Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 Founders Edition

  • 87

    AMD Radeon R9 Fury X

Expert reviews and ratings

By ign.com on December 22, 2016 89

The bottom line is the GTX 1060 offers a slight edge over the RX 480 in DX11 performance, but those extra ponies require an extra $40 or so, making it a bit of a toss-up. We give Nvidia the slight advantage though, as it's clocked slighty faster and has...

By hardwarezone.com.sg on October 11, 2016 80

IntroductionShootout updated on 11 October 2016: Originally published on 28th August with three contenders, we've now added in cards from Palit and Zotac for a more comprehensive survey of the available options. Our findings and conclusion have also...

By techicize.com on August 22, 2016 95

Want create site? Find Free WordPress Themes and plugins.So then it's time to wrap up our findings and deliver a verdict on the MSI GeForce GTX 1060. It's naive, but with a proven track record, we always know an MSI card is going to impress. That was...

By Kitguru.net on August 09, 2016 90

PC Gamers are undoubtedly spoilt for choice when it comes to GTX 1060s and MSI's GTX 1060 Gaming X is arguably one of the better options. While not everyone will be sold on the looks, red and black isn't exactly one size fits all colour scheme, the MSI...

By Guru of 3D on July 20, 2016 100

MSi once again brings a fun card to the table, and this one doesn't break the back either. The GTX 1060 series will be a hit, no doubt. Over the 960 the performance nearly doubled and a card like shown today with it's perf, cool temps, low noise and...

By pcgamesn.com on July 20, 2016 80

Essentially then, if you're only really interested in letting MSI do the legwork clocking your GPU, all you're getting with such an expensive graphics card is some impressive cooling and only a very slight performance boost over a stock-clocked version....

By reviewstudio.net on July 19, 2016 91

NVIDIA just launched its GTX 1060 graphics card, the next obvious member of its Pascal series. They've waited for AMD to make a step with their Polaris family before GTX 1060 saw the light.The new GTX 1060 manages to beat AMD RX480 in performance, but...

By techPowerUp! on July 19, 2016 98

According to MSI, their GTX 1060 Gaming X will retail at $289. Extremely quiet Overclocked out of the box Fans turn off in idle Low temperatures Cheaper than Founders Edition No efficiency loss vs. reference design Power efficient Backplate included New...

By Gadgets360 on July 19, 2016 90

There has never been a better time to be a gamer, especially one whose pockets aren't bottomless. The GeForce GTX 1060 is priced to kill, and it's a worthy step up from the Radeon RX 480. Now while Nvidia announced a price of Rs. 22,999 which would...

By Pureoverclock on July 18, 2017

Maybe the price is a little above the normal "mid-range," but Nvidia is offering an extremely great product that MSI takes to an even higher level. There's nothing to be truly disappointed in with this...

By laptopmedia.com on February 17, 2017

MSI GeForce GTX 1060 Gaming X is a remarkable product allowing gamers playing at Full HD (1920 x 1080 p) resolution to enjoy their favorite games at max graphics settings with satisfactory anti-aliasing levels.In the production of this graphics card the...

By uk.hardware.info on January 24, 2017

First of all, the GTX 1060 3GB. We only tested one model of this, namely the MSI Gaming X. In terms of noise levels it is excellent: even under load it is inaudibly quiet, while the temperature remains at an acceptable level. While it is about 10%...

By HardOCP on November 10, 2016

GIGABYTE has delivered a custom Radeon RX 480 G1 GAMING series video card. It has custom cooling, and does a great job in that department. It is lackluster in its ability however to maintain its quoted factory overclock of 1290MHz. Even if it could,...

By hw4all.com on October 16, 2016

With the GeForce GTX 1060 Gaming X and cooler TwinFrozr already the sixth generation MSI continues the success of their predecessors. Pascal-generation graphics card, in this case the GeForce GTX 1060, has shown impressive results in our tests. MSI...

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