After AMD's release of the impressive Radeon RX 480 graphics card, NVIDIA was quick to react with its own GeForce GTX 1060. AMD had a few lead days to a very hot market, although the very sought-after cards were initially out of stock pretty much everywhere. The stock fluctuations and the initial controversies surrounding AMD's Radeon RX 480 gave NVIDIA enough time and room to establish its presence in the $200-$300 price segment. A month after the GTX 1060 release, the stock levels are starting to stabilize and potential buyers have enough material to make an educated decision? if wallet health is still not the ultimate limitation that is!

The new NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 is built around the Pascal GP106, a scaled-down GPU compared to the GP104 powering the beastly GTX 1080 and 1070. However, the new chip still offers all of Pascal's features at a lower price bracket. NVIDIA also opted to remove the SLI feature from the GTX 1060 in what seems to be a crippling blow to a very promising card at first glance. Today I'm taking the NVIDIA GTX 1060 Founders Edition for a spin to see how it fares against AMD's Radeon RX 480 8GB and the beefy EVGA GTX 970 SC.