Question No performance with new graphics card

[Senko]

Hello, I recently upgraded from a gtx 970 to a gtx 1060 6gb. I have played a few games and ran a benchmark and there is no improvement. What should i do?
PC SPECS:
i5 6600
16gb ddr4 memory
gtx 1060 6gb

 

[drivinfast247]

Hello, I recently upgraded from a gtx 970 to a gtx 1060 6gb. I have played a few games and ran a benchmark and there is no improvement. What should i do?
PC SPECS:
i5 6600
16gb ddr4 memory
gtx 1060 6gb

Upgrade the rest of the platform. It's an old 4c/4t CPU. What games are you trying to play?

 

[punkncat]

The 1060 is only marginally faster than a 970. The biggest change would be the VRAM being 2GB larger. As far as speed, it is only ~10% faster, if that. You probably wouldn't be noticing much improvement. This was more of a lateral move than an upgrade.

I am making assumptions about drivers and such, but as above.

 

[Senko]

Upgrade the rest of the platform.

I thought it could be the cpu but i checked and there is a graphics card bottleneck, like it was saying that my cpu is to good for my gpu im not sure im not very advanced in pc

 

[NaiteRyder]

What is your Mobo? A must factor to consider.

 

[punkncat]

What is your Mobo? A must factor to consider.

OK, I'll bite.

Why is that?

 

[Senko]

What is your Mobo? A must factor to consider.

its the asus z170-a

 

[sizzling]

I thought it could be the cpu but i checked and there is a graphics card bottleneck, like it was saying that my cpu is to good for my gpu im not sure im not very advanced in pc

How did you check?
What games?

 

[Richj444]

The 1060 is only marginally faster than a 970 ... This was more of a lateral move than an upgrade.

That pretty much sums it up. Regardless of any other factors there's just not a lot of performance difference between the two cards.

 

[hotaru.hino]

To add to what @punkncat said, generally speaking if you're upgrading your video card, at least with NVIDIA, you don't want to go to a lower SKU number if you're jumping to the next generation because the relative performance tends to be the same or worse. You'll need to go at least two generations for any appreciable improvements.