The test compared three budget graphics cards in modern 1080p gaming: GeForce GTX 1060, GTX 1660, and Radeon RX 580. The evaluation used FSR 2.1 in Medium settings with Quality mode for Cyberpunk 2077 Phantom Liberty, resulting in average frame rates of 48fps for the GTX 1060, 66fps for the GTX 1660, and 51fps for the RX 580. In Call of Duty Modern Warfare II run on Standard settings, the averages were 61fps for the GTX 1060, 75fps for the GTX 1660, and 90fps for the RX 580.
Counter-Strike 2 shows strong performance on High settings, achieving 95fps with the GTX 1060, 124fps with the GTX 1660, and 96fps with the RX 580. Horizon Forbidden West, tested on Medium settings, delivered 36fps for the GTX 1060, 46fps for the GTX 1660, and 43fps for the RX 580. PUBG Battlegrounds varied little around the same range with 113fps for the GTX 1060, 126fps for the GTX 1660, and 107fps for the RX 580.
Across a suite of twelve games, the GTX 1660 emerged as the top performer, about 25% faster than the GTX 1060 and roughly 18% quicker than the RX 580. The tests ran on a system equipped with an AMD Ryzen 5 7600X processor and 32 GB of RAM in dual-channel DDR5 at 6000 MT/s CL32.
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