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this video is brought to you by NCI XCOM great technology selection and service hello everyone I'm Dimitri with hurric Knox and welcome to another video review today we've got something exciting today we're taking a look at the latest Maxwell GPU from Nvidia this is the gtx 960 and if we take a step back to review what Maxwell architecture has delivered is incredible performance per watt and the GTX 960 is continuing that trend with a TDP of only 120 watts and to put that in perspective the r9 285 the closest aim the GPU in performance and price has a TDP of 190 watts while the GTX 980 invidious current flagship card is rated at only a hundred sixty five watts this has to be mentioned because power efficiency of Maxwell architecture is totally outstanding and AMD is slightly lagging behind pricing wise we are looking at $199 for the release of the GTX 960 would just slight markups for their port partners this is right in line with aim these offerings of the r9 285 and even the 280x that if you are just after pure raw performance it's an excellent competitor the EVGA gtx 960 super super clocked the card that we have here today is a $10 premium due to its a CX 2.0 cooler it comes factory overclocked at 1279 megahertz on the core with 1342 boost clock that is 17 percent higher than the base clock on the reference card and this leaves a ton of headroom for overclocking and that makes us happy it ships with 1024 cuda cores and eight streaming multi processing units 2 gigabytes of gddr5 memory on a 128-bit bus and really aimed at hitting that sweet spot for 1080p gaming at an attractive price point it still carries over all the features that were introduced with GTX 980 like MF AAA which is multi frame sampled a a dynamic super resolution there are text 12 G sync support GeForce experience a new h.265 encoder and a decoder and it can output for 4k displays simultaneously from a single card for display output on our EVGA super super clocked we're looking at a total of 3 DisplayPort 1.2 HDMI and dual link DVI EVGA has added the memory mosfet cooling plate you can see it right above the PCB that actually helps to lower temperatures of both the memory and MOSFETs a backplate though is not included on this car but the black PCB is still stealthy enough speaking of cooling the a CX 2.0 is somewhat of an attractive cooler you've got dual 8mm or double ball-bearing fans and the aluminum heatsink with three eight millimeter heat pipes that run across the card and the heat pipes are not bent allowing more efficient cooling the reference gtx 960 runs off a single six pin power but with the added headroom for overclocking the super super clocked 960 requires an 8 pin for power and i want to mention that it is closer to the center it slightly offset and is no longer at the edge of the card like you normally see and one really awesome feature of the super super clock 960 is the quick switch dual BIOS it's right behind the eight pin power when it's in the left spot the fans don't spin at all so the card runs completely silent until the GPU goes over 60 degrees Celsius this is actually a brilliant feature to reduce the operational noise of the card perfect for home theater pcs plus in some games the fans don't even kick in because the card does not reach 60 degrees Celsius the right spot for the BIOS is the performance by us with a specific fan curve to spend and the lowest rpm possible when at idle and with that out of the way let's see exactly how the EVGA gtx 960 super super clocked a CX 2.0 performs now one thing to keep in mind is our r9 285 do Lex from sapphire is also factory overclocked that would introduce about plus or minus 5% in performance compared to the reference r9 285 looking at pure performance numbers it's pretty much next to neck with the r9 285 although it is lagging slightly behind the dual X even when overclocked I was able to reach stable speeds of 1555 megahertz on the core with only a marginal performance gain compared to the 25 to LX moving on to temperatures 31 degrees at idle is outstanding especially considering the fan wasn't even spinning 72 degrees Celsius at load is still super fine considering the thermal threshold of this card is 95 C at the end of the day Nvidia is here to move volumes and this is their best chance targeting this price point in such excellent performance per watt users will appreciate the low power draw cool operation literally silent performance until 60 degrees Celsius and all the added values like mfa a dynamic super resolution and gsync support when looking at pure performance numbers the r9 285 from sapphire this is the dual exhibition puts on quite the fight but at the significantly higher TDP and of course also slightly higher price point but the latest on the GPU will have the surplus support for upcoming freesync of course mantle is their virtual super resolution through audio and gaming evolve if you main purpose is 1080p gaming and Ori perhaps you're looking to upgrade from your GTX 560 667 60 then the GTX 960 is right in your valley especially a $10 premium for the EVGA gtx 960 super super clock a CX 2.0 is totally worth it on with the reference card given all the added features well that concludes this review let us know which side you are inclined to take given the competition has sort of leveled off but for you gtx 960 or the r9 285 let us know in the comment below as always thank you so much for watching don't forget to subscribe to more simple content like this video if you found it helpful and we'll see you in next