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  • Gigabyte GTX 1060 Xtreme Gaming 6GB Video Card Review

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    Hitman 2016

    Hitman places the iconic assassin on missions in exotic and diverse locales to kill various villains in each episode.  The game supports both DX11 and DX12 rendering methods and comes with a benchmarking application allowing you to test every visual component of the game.

    Benchmark Settings
    Preset Ultra
    Anti Alisaing FXAA
    Texture Quality Medium
    Texture Filter Anisotropic 16x
    SSAO Off
    Shadow Maps Ultra
    Shadow Resolution Medium

    The Hitman benchmarking tool supports both DX11 and DX12 rendering engines however I have discovered that the DX11 only reports CPU score making it invalid for video card testing.  DX12 performance is what we are interested in and I'm actually surprised to see how much faster GTX 1060 can be with a slight overclock.  If only by a few FPS.