No Founder's Editions... What now? - Gigabyte G1 Gaming GTX 1060 (6GB) Review
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2017-05-06
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1,276 words · ~6 min read
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so the GTX 1060 6 GB cards have been available for a while now but the
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founders Edition version that we reviewed back when they launched has all
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but disappeared from the market at this point and while finding a non-reference
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card can also be difficult looking at this Gigabyte one for instance it's out
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of stock at newegg.com and in low stock on Amazon at least you can get them so
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how do they compare to the founders edition cards and how do they stack up
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against the competition on AMD's side let's find
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with the physical Hardware that Gigabyte has strapped on this GTX 1060 G1 gaming
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6 GB Edition card it comes with dual wind forc 90mm fans which have striped
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blades and unique curves that claim they will increase air flow by 23% when they
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spin of fanless mode is included along with a bright don't worry I'm not dead
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LED unusually however they spin in different directions seriously if you
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look at the card without the fan spinning you'll see that the left fan
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Scoops to the left and the right fan Scoops to the right theoretically this
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results in a reduction of air turbulence as they both push air out the top of the
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card to together does it feel like to anyone else that every year there's some
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new way to just put fans on a graphics card the heat sink they sit on features
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two direct touch copper heat pipes which also claim a vague 29% Improvement
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bringing us to the Real Results a pretty impressive 61° C in a room temperature
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of about 25° all while the card was
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pushing our Crisis 3 Skybox stair test and running at 1987 MHz which is 140 MHz
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above o the advertised boost clock okay
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that's actually pretty sweet but who cares about speed where's the RGB
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lighting never fear the aforementioned fan stop LED is actually RGB along with
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the Gigabyte logo just to the left of it but while the decision to include this
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was great and all it does feel a little odd when paired with the Striking orange
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accents on the card itself yes these are near the fans and therefore will be out
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of sight in most cases but it feels like they were kind of a oversight in regards
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to power the G1 comes with a 6+1 powerphase design compared to the
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reference 3+1 setup and it has this cool
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Smart LED indicator I've seen power cable indicators in the past that just
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illuminate if you have a cable plugged in this one however flashes if there's
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an issue with your power supply or illuminates if the cable is unplugged
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which makes more sense to me for output it comes with a standard setup for a GTX
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1060 which is one dual link DVI d one
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HDMI 2.0b and three DisplayPort 1.4
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connectors which can support up to 8K at 60 HZ although good luck gaming at that
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resolution and now if you want to learn more about the GP 106 chip that is
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inside of this GPU check up here for our
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launch video on the 1060 and Skip to about 1 minute and 7 seconds and if you
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want to see our overview of the new software features that were released
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with the Pascal architecture like the surprisingly interesting screenshot tool
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named anel and some new VR Works features check out this GTX 1080 review
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and Skip to about 1 minute and 50 seconds anyways let's move right onto
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performance I tested Gigabyte's G1 gaming 1066 GB against a reference
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Founders Edition 6 GB card its bigger brother the GTX 1070 in an EVGA
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superclocked variant and the main competition from the other side the
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rx480 unfortunately I couldn't test it against the reason that I keep calling
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it a 1066 GB the recently released
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NVIDIA 3 GB GTX 1060 NVIDIA surprised
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everyone with that and as we don't have one of those in office yet I was not
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able to do anything with it so stay tuned for that it's able to push well
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over 60 frames per second in every title we tested with maximum presets at 1080p
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which NVIDIA has been pretty clear as the target resolution for this card and
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with those settings everything looked nice and crispy it beat out it's more
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expensive Founders Edition cousin although it's not too surprising in as
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it ran about 127 MHz faster when under
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load in our Crisis 3 Skybox stair test thanks to GPU boost and its better
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cooler and board design the more interesting story here is how it trades
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blows with the rx480 it wins by a considerable amount in crisis three and
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Rise of the Tomb Raider and surprisingly manages a win in ashes of the
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singularity as well but when we take a look at doom and Hitman there's a shift
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in the balance for power for Hitman the
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Gigabyte 1060 wins in direct X1 but loses in directx12 despite both of them
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gaining overall performance then moving to Doom Vulcan and asynchronous compute
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being applied it's not even a fair contest the rx480 wins by a massive 20%
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so the story continues to be what it has been NVIDIA's Pascal gpus are fast and
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Gigabyte's G1 gaming variant of the 1066
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GB card is a solid option with great
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Cooling and low noise floor it even managed to stay relatively quiet under
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heavy Lo but this seems to be more of an architectural battle at this point
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instead of the crazy aftermarket cooler Showdown that we saw with the 700 900
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series it will be interesting to see how each side holds up in about a year as
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more and more games keep on coming out with Vulcan and directx12 support and
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when AMD hopefully has some kind of response to NVIDIA's higher-end
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