# NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060

8 Hacker News commenters recommended NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 and 0 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 5 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** People recommend it as a budget graphics card with 6GB of VRAM that lasted for years and still runs games and multi-monitor setups well.

## Why people recommend it

- Long service life (3 comments): "Likewise for the 1060, its still going strong." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47543845)) "That thing served me well for almost a decade." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47673405)) "My battle-hardened 1060GTX served me for years" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45801009))
- Good value with 6GB VRAM (2 comments): "The 1060, a budget card, had the same amount of VRAM as the previous generations top tier card (6GB)" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48959672)) "the 1060 is an absolute king for its price back in the day" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48962322))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090](https://hackerapproved.com/p/nvidia-geforce-rtx-3090.md): 116 recommend
- [NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090](https://hackerapproved.com/p/nvidia-geforce-rtx-5090.md): 102 recommend
- [NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000](https://hackerapproved.com/p/nvidia-rtx-pro-6000.md): 77 recommend
- [Nvidia GPUs](https://hackerapproved.com/p/nvidia-gpus.md): 67 recommend
- [AMD Radeon GPU](https://hackerapproved.com/p/amd-gpus.md): 48 recommend

## Where to get it

- [See price on Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/s?k=NVIDIA+GeForce+GTX+1060+6GB+graphics+card&tag=hackerapprove-20) (affiliate link)

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060", https://hackerapproved.com/p/nvidia-geforce-gtx-1060/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).