Customer Ratings & Reviews

I bought this on impulse when I was at the local store a few days ago. I was curious to see how it would perform compared to my three year old EVGA GTX 970 SSC ATX 4GB card. Everthing is about 15 to 20% better in benchmarks using Unigine Heaven Free and Fire Strike from 3DMark. Now I have a new card for my DD3 System and a good backup card (GTX 970). I believe anyone with a good DDR3 system with an i5 or i7 4 Core or better CPU that fits their 1150 socket will be surprised at how well and little power this uses. I will report back after I have used the card for several months. Note: My two favorite video card OEM/s are EVGA and PNY. I think I found a great deal at $250.00 for this XLR8 GTX 1060 OC 3GB video card.

I bought this to give my PC the ability to handle an Oculus Rift. It does the job well for the price, however If I had the money I would have chosen a higher end model card. The oculus rift runs well on this card at low to medium video settings, however it struggles at high quality video within the VR environment. If you can afford to spend a bit more I would say do it, if not you will be satisfied with the overall performance of this one.

I upgraded from a 660 Ti that crashed on me over the weekend. I had to buy something local, and ended up going with the GTX 1060. I was looking at the GTX 1080 online and there just was not any online retailer with a reasonable price. Inflation has taken over online shopping for video cards! I was happy to find the last 1060 at best buy with the current market value price! Thank you!

Now with the current bitcoin gpu market in mind. The price for this isnt terrible. If you plan on using this for gaming its definitely pretty descent. I would avoid VR altogether though. I've managed to get it working for most games but it isnt always a enjoyable experience and most VR games have to be run at low graphics. Which for a VR headset can be straining on the eyes. ARK Survival runs at rough 60fps on medium settings, however there are enough frame drops to make it worth turning down textures even more. VR Chat in VR runs well with your own independent avatar, but the moment you join up with other people the gpu gets overwhelmed and cant handle the models. Rainbow Six Siege is being run at high graphics and getting very good frames with no drops. Most benchmarks come out with this card doing pretty well however in game itself it just doesnt run the same as the benchmarks. Now if anyone is curious I am running a ryzen 5 1600, Solid State Drive and disk drive. As well as 16GB DDR4. Price is descent on it, however I will be exchanging mine for a gtx 1070 8GB. As far as VR goes this does not handle it well at all, and I am very disappointed. I did not expect to run it, so I wasn't surprised in the end. One of my previous cards was a GTX 650 Ti, that thing was even capable of running super hot VR, what a joke... (No really, it did a good job at it too) Vr definitely needs more VRAM, the 3GB just doesnt cut it. GTX 1070 8GB has about 50% more overall power than this card and is definitely worth looking into. Combine that 8GB of VRAM and your looking at a very good card. The 6GB version of the GTX 1060 is not really worth looking at as the card itself cant make full use of the 6GB. Otherwise, the cards build quality is very good.It runs most of my games on high with solid frames - Rocket League, Smite, Overwatch, Civ 6, Final Fantasy 14, RainbowSix Siege. However games such as PUBG, Ark, VR Chat, and Battlefield 1 and some other triple A titles are not going to be run on high period. You'll probably be looking at medium on these ones with some custom changes. Overclocking this card doesn't really make a big difference as in some other cards. I'd recommend this card to someone who is looking to get into PC gaming but doesn't want to spend a lot. For someone who plays mostly all PC games, check out the GTX 1070 or 1080. GTX 1070 can handle most games today, 1080 is sorta future proof for now. Overall, its got good build quality. Runs most games on high with good frames. Would not recommend for VR, regardless of that VR ready symbol on the front, it doesn't make for a optimal VR experience. Descent cooling on it, keeps up with what is thrown at it. GOOD BUDGET CARD, if you can spend the little more just go for the GTX 1070, its worth it.

The card works can't deny that, it runs Overwatch and my other games on the best settings. The thing is, this card went bad after 5 months, now I need to contact PNY, who does not have the best customer service, to get this fixed.

Works great for the games i play, and i have not run into any troubles regarding vram. Is a good card for first time pc builders.

So, I bought this card for the "sweet gaming" and have had it for nearly a year and it does its job admirably, however it recently started making a funny noise. Now, I have been building custom computers for most of my life so I recognized the sound in an instant, Fan Bearings. I pulled the side off my case and you know what I saw, one of the fans was spinning very slowly and screaming at me because it's bearing was trashed. Okay so normally I would just replace the fan no problem but this card uses a type of fan that I can neither re-grease myself nor replace myself because they are unavailable in the market. Yes many similar sized fans are available for cheap but not with the proper mounting holes. So, the TLDR on this card is it works, well, but if you need to do any repairs your screwed and it might wear out faster than its supposed to.

Best buy sent a used card that didn't work. It was obviously used and missing parts.