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Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1060 G1 GAMING Review - Product Showcase

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 07/26/2016 08:27 AM [ 5] 10 comment(s)

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Let's start with our photo-shoot. A few pages that show the ins and outs with photos, all taken with an in-house photo-shoot of course.

So the G1 Gaming 1060 is quite a feast for the eyes with its familiar looks. You will spot a nice matte black (custom) PCB, this board has 6 power phases + 1 for memory and actually even a 8-pin power connector, for that little more overclocking headroom. The PCB is as mentioned matte black in color, and of course the new revision Windforcw 2X cooler is being used. These cards will look just stunning in a dark themed PC. The card looks fairly (aside from the GPU and memory ICs) identical to the G1 Gaming 1070/1080.

 

 

As board partners are allowed to release the 1060 model cards in their own configurations you will see many versions, mostly based on customized PCB/component and the obviously mandatory different cooling solutions. This GAMING X edition of the series has higher clocks on both the GPU and memory sub-system, RGB LEDs and a back-plate, all quite impressive. 

The card has default clock frequencies of 1810 MHz (boost) / 1595 MHz (base) MHz and a proper 6GB GDDR5 as well at 8000MHz (effective data-rate) on the memory. In software you can activate an OC mode, which will give the GPU an extra 26 MHz boost. The card in default mode is clocked at 1569 MHz with a reference 8 GHz on the memory.

Each 1060 will have a maximum power design of roughly 120 Watts. Fear not, these are made to overclock as well. The card is using just one 150 Watts 8-pin PEG (PCI Express Graphics) connector. Another 75 Watts is delivered though the PCIe slot and thus motherboard. 

 

 
The card eats away two slots, it is composite heat-pipe based, the GPU is cooled by a copper base plate directly connected to the heat-pipes. You won't hear the fan noise in low-load situations as the fans do not spin when they are not needed (up-to roughly 60 Degrees C), once it reaches that temperatures the three fans will kick in. The LEDs embedded in this graphics card can be controlled with the Xtreme engine software utility. These (top Gigabyte logo + fan stop area) are RGB configurable with a few animations as well.  Check out the backside where there is a thick sturdy metal back-plate, unfortunately Gigabyte did not make any ventilation gaps and holes in that back-plate. This  design can easily trap heat and work against the product. 


The GeForce GTX 1060, 1070 and 1080 are DisplayPort 1.2 certified and DP 1.3/1.4 Ready, enabling support for 4K displays at 120 Hz, 5K displays at 60 Hz, and 8K displays at 60 Hz (using two cables). HDMI 2.0 is supported so that you can drive Ultra HD monitors at 60 Hz (if compatible).




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