NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 1060 gives you gaming power on a budget

[Joystiq]

After debuting the fastest high-end and mid-range video cards ever seen, the

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and

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, we expected a lot from NVIDIA's new lower-tier entry, the $249

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. And the stakes were raised even higher after AMD launched the

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, a $200 GPU that's fast enough to power VR headsets (and manage some decent 1440p gaming). NVIDIA claims the GTX 1060 is even faster than the GTX 980, its premium video card from 2014. That says quite a bit about how far we've come in the GPU world: You no longer have to break the bank for a decent amount of gaming muscle.

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