yesterday's video which you can watch here covered the ins and outs of the
specs of the GeForce GTX 960 and how it Stacks up in the landscape of other
single GPU graphics card configurations for gamers today's video is two things
it's a look at the overclocking results and performance of gigabytes G1 gaming
Edition 960 a higher priced but perhaps
higher performance alternative to ausus stxs 960 and second it's an
investigation of the sensibility of running 9 60s and SLI versus buying a
single 970 on the subject of sensibility
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now to learn more so we'll start with a brief rundown of the gtx960 with a
particular emphasis on gigabytes implementation G1 gaming is their top
tier of card and aside from being overbuilt with a six-phase power design
and dual six pin PCIe connectors it features a chip that's gone through what
Gigabyte calls the GPU Gauntlet sorting
to guarantee higher overclocking capabilities and given that we got ours
running stable at 1565 MHz throughout our test Suite we
either got lucky or what they're doing is working the cool ER plays a role here
as well though with the windforce 3x's quad 6 mm heat pipe triple fan design
doing a great job of staying quiet and keeping our chip cool underload at a
maximum of 67° C even with the card
overclocked to the max the way that we do for our GPU testing and it managed to
stay completely silent at idle and under light loads with a Neato LED indicator
next to the illuminated windforce logo that tells you if the fans are off and
the cart is running in silent mode something that more and more cards are
able to do these days but hey it's a feature that's on here thought I better
mention it I'm not sure why though that we need the LED indicator because I
could just look at the fans if I wanted to know if they were stopped but whatever Gigabyte onto the rest of the
card it's got a PCIe gen 3 16x slot on the bottom a single SLI connector on the
top for support of up to two-way SLI it's got the same Technologies as other
GTX 960s so that's h265 encoding and
decoding Dynamic super resolution mfaa
anti-aliasing with which we used for our testing thanks to its similar appearance
and smaller performance hit compared to msaa and great power efficiency with
this card drawing only 250 Watts total
from the wall for the entire system when overclocked under load in Crisis 3 but
it also has one other special Tech something that Gigabyte calls Flex
display technology which is basically an onboard active DisplayPort to DVI
adapter that affords users a little bit more flexibility especially those using
an older DVI based display just pay attention to the coding on the back of
the io shield for which ones you can plug in at the same time now aside from
the stuff that I covered so far and different stock and boost clock speeds
at their hearts all GTX 960s are essentially the same with 2 gigs of
gddr5 memory on a 128bit bus a fully
enabled Maxwell architecture GM 206 processing core with all the Cuda cores
and smx's that go along with that and a price in the 200 to $230 range so you
might be questioning the point of doing a review of one 1960 yesterday and
another one today which is why we spent a little bit of extra time and not only
through our windforce 960 at its maxover clock the full OC spreadsheet by the way
is linked in the video description below onto our standard 5960x test bench but
we also ran it an SLI with our stricks card to see how two $200 cards stack up
to a single one of their $350 big brothers the
gtx970 so our single card testing didn't reveal any great you know Revelations it
turns out that when you clock one gtx960 slightly faster than another one it
performs ever so slightly better whether this and all the pros and cons of one
card versus another is worth another $15 or not to you is entirely your deal but
our SLI 960 versus 970 at 4K results
were ever so slightly more interesting in spite of the 960s much lower memory B
bandwidth and half-sized frame buffer remember two 2 gig cards is 2 gig
effective vram in SLI it scaled well in SL considering the price of this
solution compared to a single 970 except in wow where it didn't at all so I think
that pretty much wraps it up for the Gigabyte G1 gaming gtx960 and also our
gtx960 coverage in general we used to do a lot more videos about the different
variants of a particular Graphics core but unless something really exciting and
unexpected happens this will likely be our last word on this one if you're
looking for a quiet and efficient single GPU solution it's a great choice if heat
power consumption and noise are non-issues for you the r9290 for as
little as $40 more compared to a card like this Stomps it and if you're
looking to pair up two graphics cards then I would personally go with a single
GTX 970 over 2960s for the 4 Gig frame
buffer and the more consistent performance across a variet of games
that comes with using a single GPU speaking of affordable and consistent
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