Well here it is, a 1060 3gb GPU

 
I have to say it's a very nice card in physical appearance, just too bad you can not view it installed on your motherboard. Believe it or not, it's longer than the 970's in length. Yes, I went with a FTW for the cooling fans. I watched several reviews on the single fan version and at full speed fan they sounded very loud. I wanted to avoid a replay of my years ago folding with 460's and 560's along with a few 480's sounding like a tornado warning.
 
Performance wise so far I would say it's "almost" comparable to the 970's. I have just installed it and this is the first WU it has ran, clicking through the GPU's it has a higher estimated PPD. Granted I would need to have an apples to apples WU to get true performance statistics between the cards.
Quick Screen shot:

 
 
Temperatures??  The 970's are top and bottom cards GPU1 and GPU2 , 1060 middle card GPU3. Why Afterburner reports it this way I'm not sure. Possibly since I added the 1060 last and didn't reinstall the program. I have verified slot position with GPUZ.
                                      Temperature                   GPU Usage                 Fan Percentage

 
Running cool and somewhat quiet and I am pleased with the results so far. I cannot tell if the 1060 fans are any louder than the 970's at this point in time since the top 970 is running full bore. Hopefully I will receive the blocks for the 970's tomorrow and get this ghetto mess in another case and spiffed up and presentable. The 1060 will run on air since there are no full cover water blocks for them, and from what I read there probably never will be either.   
 
 
 
 
 

Can someone explain why in the world the preview shows the photo and the submitted post shows a broken link?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!? THIS IS IRRITATING!!!!!

Well the card holds it's own against a 970, I would put it at equal at this point in time (at least in my setup with my 970's). If anyone knows of a program to monitor individual output/PPD  in a multi-GPU set up show me a link please. I supposed I could remove the 970's and let it run by itself for a few days and get results.
 
Set back on water cooling and swapping cases, USPS had my water blocks and the link block. (2 separate orders since I forgot the link in the original order), As usual my luck always prevails, both were "showing" expected delivery for today. The only thing that made it was the link, so with that I will have to wait until next weekend to get the system swapped and the 970's water cooled.

The fact is a 970 and 1060 are probably about equal in performance terms. The gains in Pascal gpus are pretty large compared to earlier generations. Your main benefit is going to be power consumption given how the 1060 3gb got its Cuda cores cut. You're also talking about what different class cards and I think it's great how close their performance is.

howdy2u2
Well the card holds it's own against a 970, I would put it at equal at this point in time (at least in my setup with my 970's). If anyone knows of a program to monitor individual output/PPD  in a multi-GPU set up show me a link please. I supposed I could remove the 970's and let it run by itself for a few days and get results.
 
Set back on water cooling and swapping cases, USPS had my water blocks and the link block. (2 separate orders since I forgot the link in the original order), As usual my luck always prevails, both were "showing" expected delivery for today. The only thing that made it was the link, so with that I will have to wait until next weekend to get the system swapped and the 970's water cooled.

Download and install HFM if you don't already, that will show you PPD for each slot.

This little guy is a pretty good folder!!
 

planetclown
You could also run FAHbench separately on each card to compare throughput between the 970 and 1060.

https://folding.stanford....me/download-utilities/

Thank you, got it and will test when everything for the 970s arrive.
 

species
any other screenshots from the 1060 FTW+ 3gb? what is real daily production? thanks!

@species
4 days of sole production for this 1060 3gb:
 
 
376,841+345,369+371,985+349,976= 1,444,171 / 4 = 361,042.75ppd average
 
 NOTE: These results are with the FTW+ and the factory OC, I have NOT OC'd further.
 
I started this GPU by itself late on the 17th, any results prior to the 17th are with 970s and 980s folding also. I shut those down so I could see the PPD of this 1060 only. Temperatures hold ~50-55*C with fans controlled by Afterburner @ ~50-53% in an open case. This is the only GPU on the MOBO at this time. The CPU (i7 875k on a EVGA P55 FTW MOBO) is WC'd with an external radiator and 3 case fans blowing in to the case. (even though I have the side of the case off) If I can find my kill-a-watt I will pull power numbers too.
 
Here are my STATS if you are interested in hourly numbers.
 

bcavnaugh
Have you gotten a Core 21 Project Yet!

Yes in the first screen shot it had one and several more over the days it has ran. It is working on one right now, I assume you mean FahCore 0x21.
 

Great info howdy2u2 and good to see you around here again.

Actually today is the first time I have seen my 1060 3GB hitting 300k PPD. I installed  the 7.4.16 beta client and added the -beta flag on the gpu client. This raised the PPD by around 10%, usually it does 260-275k PPD.

MARSTG
Actually today is the first time I have seen my 1060 3GB hitting 300k PPD. I installed  the 7.4.16 beta client and added the -beta flag on the gpu client. This raised the PPD by around 10%, usually it does 260-275k PPD.

Which 1060 card do you have, and which driver???  From what I've read, driver 372.90 gives best PPD output, but haven't kept close enough track of my WU's to see for myself.