Sorry if this does not help resolve your situation, but I also had this problem with Antergos running Gnome using LightDM. I switched to GDM for my display manager and all the corruption from waking up went away. I do, however, have to alt+f2 and r to restart gnome to get the shutdown icon back. If I remember right (back in my Mint days), alt+f2 and r works for Cinnamon too. If you can't (or don't want to) change desktop managers, maybe that will help. By the way, I also have GTX 1060.. Gigabyte Extreme Edition.

I updated driver to 378.09 and it now seems to work...

fingers X-ed

Actually had a crash today when I left a chromium session running....

but nothing if I don't use chromium/chrome running

I think nvidia said something about this in their patch notes. I'm guessing it's a known issue they haven't fixed yet.

yeah I still have problems now and then, will try to adjust the DM

really daft Q but do I need boot options for the initial live cd boot, I cannot seem to find a solution to get to a desktop on antergos - wanted to give it a shot

I generally find sleeps with nvidia cards pretty stable. I have Ubuntu Gnome running on two machines, one with a Geforce 330M running the 340.101 driver (newest for that card) and one with a Geforce 980 Ti running a new driver (367.57). Both machines usually wake from sleep, but sometimes don't (maybe 1 time in 10-20), forcing a hard reset. On both machines, the Gnome splash screen has a way of coming up corrupted, only to right itself after a second or two. The chevrons which show I need to slide the screen upward to unlock, however, will always be corrupted on the 330M and most of the time on the 980. Go figure.

I run Mint 18 on a laptop with integrated Intel graphics, and that has a way of coming up corrupted from sleep. Icons and text labels are missing or garbled, but otherwise everything is functional. A log out fixes it all.

Edit: checked the driver version for the 980, I really need to update my driver!

I have a GTX 1060 6G (MSI Gaiming X) and was not encountering corrupted screen when using sleep on Ubuntu 16.04 (proprietary drivers of course)... but crashes (which came from my i5 6600K it seems)... So I don't use sleep any more. :s (I've a SSD, so boot times are not really a problem)

I think it's a known issue of Ubuntu 16.04 and derivatives (Mint 18.1) with the NVIDIA 375.26 driver. See the NVIDIA known issues with 375.26. It's still a note in 378.09, but from their wording it sounds like it's hit or miss re: if it impacts you. There is a kernel module parameter that they offer as a fix, not sure if it has any side effects.. I'm on Arch with 375.26 / 4.9.9 kernel and haven't had any issues (this better not start! lol)