AMD FSR 3 breathes new life into Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060

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Despite being seven years old – practically an eternity in hardware terms – the Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 has got a new lease of life thanks to AMD FSR 3. Team red’s new, open-source upscaler isn’t officially recommended for any Nvidia graphics card older than its GeForce RTX 2000-series GPUs, but it seems to work just fine with them anyway.

AMD FSR 3 is currently only available for two games: Forspoken and Immortals of Aveum. However, AMD plans to increase this roster of games substantially in the future. Unlike Nvidia DLSS 3, which is a proprietary tech limited to current-gen Nvidia GPUs, FSR 3 uses standard GPU shaders and cores, so can be used on a variety of graphics cards.

Now, it’s only officially recommended for certain GPUs, generally more recent ones like the AMD RX 7800 XT, but that hasn’t stopped folk from putting FSR 3 through its paces in older graphics cards. YouTube tech aficionado Daniel Owen, whose excitement towards FSR 3’s launch was something to behold, has tested the upscaler on a range of GPUs.

Their findings with the Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 are especially noteworthy. Without FSR 3, the GTX 1060 struggles to muster a playable performance level, even at low settings and 1080p, for Immortals of Aveum.

However, when FSR 3 is enabled, we see a clear performance improvement, thanks to Performance Upscaling and Frame Generation. Now, it doesn’t eliminate all issues, as the gameplay’s still a bit laggy, but it’s a massive boost from the footage without the upscaler in action.

Owners of old cards will be delighted at this news. If you’re rocking a GTX 1060 or similar in your rig, there’s very little reason not to enable FSR 3 in games that have it implemented. One of the most impressive things about