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hey what's up everybody Jays $0.02 here and I've got good news for you because if you're a mainstream gamer and you've got about 250 dollars to spend on a graphics card and you just haven't known what to buy the RX 480 or the rumored gtx 1060 i've got good news for you today's launch day whether you're looking for a pump reservoir custom GPU block or a complete loop and a box ALPA Kools wide range of products can make your next water cooling adventure and easy one click the link in the description for more details so let's get some of the business out of the way first this is a gtx 1060 founders edition it's got a price point of 299 dollars and an MSRP of 249 I hope to see more board partners down around that $249 price range it's got 192 bit memory bus 6 gigabytes of gddr5 19 or 12 hundred and eighteen nineteen twenty twelve hundred and eighty CUDA cores 1920 was on the 1070 in 2560 was on the 1080 yeah they're kind of trolling us with the resolution matching CUDA cores right but anyway and it's got a boost clock of 1.7 gigahertz out of the box obviously if the temperatures are in check and the power limit is in control then it will boost much farther than that as you'll see in this video check this out though it is a very very short PCB which the cooler overhangs like almost half and another length of the Carter that it's like almost 50% overhang which i think is kind of a missed opportunity in my opinion when it comes to this card because although they want to keep the founder style cooler on there and the blower blower hangs off the card so the entire card is a giant heatsink this card would be perfect for small form-factor builds ITX builds and other things where you want to keep the package small ah how much you guys thought I was going to make a joke there didn't you ha I can control myself but anyway this card unfortunately does not support SLI stay tuned into the video we'll talk about that a little bit deeper but first we're going to go ahead and get into the benchmarks before we saw the benchmarks or something I want to say one yes I've got the founders edition card right there at $299 but fortunately I have the two hundred and $59 EVGA GTX 1060 superclocked which is the same exact PCB as this one right here but they didn't make the cooler longer they kept it nice and small it's got a single ball bearing fan on here doesn't have any flashy LEDs that light up it doesn't have a backplate I don't expect any of that stuff at this price point at $259 if they had added a bat a back plate and LED it would have pushed the price up at least 2025 more dollars which I don't think makes sense at this price point let's get as much performance as we can for every dollar we spend and let's make it count especially if you are the budget gamer that's got a very very specific budget you have to stick to so for the benchmarks this is the card you're going to see it is the exact same PCB but it is a super clock version so it boosts up to eighteen hundred and sixty megahertz and so again with this cooler I expect it to boost even farther than that just like all of my other and video cards did but I'm expecting extremely low thermals very low power draw with a single six pin power they advertise 120 watt TDP I have no way of testing whether or not it's pulling too much from the PCIe lanes guys I don't have equipment to do that but I will say that the 120 watt TDP means that it's not pulling the max power from either the socket which is rated at 75 watts or the six pin which is rated up to 75 watts for 150 watt TDP so fortunately as is same boost farther this TDP is going to go up so as it goes up it does look like it's actually going to stay well within spec but again I have a way of testing that one other thing to point out before we move into the benchmarks is I don't have my rx 480 right now so the benchmarks you're going to see for that are the same benchmarks I showed you in that video at launch with launch drivers my card right now is uh with Edgar over at Tec source who's doing his crossfire video since he was kind enough to send me his card I sent him mine which unfortunately for me landed during the GTX 1060 launch so I can't go and test out the new drivers at AMD has launched to kind of correct the PCIe power draw issue which they say in some instances could actually raise the performance a little bit I have no way of testing that right now so it is what it is I don't have the newest drivers but I don't expect performance to be much different all they did was change the way the power is drawn from the power plug versus the socket so anyway what all that said let's move in to the shootout because I know you guys want to see this transition so there you go guys those are the members um I - if you're surprised by those numbers you're not alone I'm surprised as well I expected this card to be a lot closer to the RX 480 I really did not expect it to outperform it to the level that it did at least in the titles that that I've got in my testing suite and the fact that it did it much quieter much cooler much less power draw says a lot for the Pascal architecture especially the GP 106 core considering this thing never Quinnie pub the 60s whatsoever even in 4k and it stayed in the low 60s at 1080p in 1440p but this thing is more than capable of 1440p gaming again all the benchmarks you saw were like higher map either high or max settings which is really going to tax the card even msaa on on the high resolution so that ought to tell you something so I'm going to put on my subjective hat for a second here let me do that real quickly I think this one actually matches a lot better the card isn't perfect and let me tell you why it doesn't support SLI no SLI fingers right there there's been a lot of rumors about why that is in fact there was so much buzz on reddit about this that Nvidia actually came out with a statement saying that they did not feel that mainstream gamers were interested in SLI and they were basically leaving SLI is an exclusive to their enthusiast level graphics cards 1070 and 1080 I find it kind of unfortunate because I think a lot of people find themselves in a situation where they can afford one of these today and maybe Christmas time or birthday money or graduation money or whatever they can buy another one of these and get a lot better performance I mean SLI two-way SLI and two a crossfire tend to actually scale pretty good as special n triple-a titles today micro stutter is not as much of an issue as it used to be in driver support is a lot better so why did in video lock it out well like I said they they are leaving that as an exclusive now for the 70 and 80 series graphics cards moving forward which is I think unfortunate but I've got a little bit more of a tinfoil hat Theory here and I think the reason might be two of these might outperform a gtx 1080 I would assume that the GeForce experience feedback given to Nvidia lets them know you know the profiles and the setups that people are using just like the Steam hardware statistics show I guess in video would know how many people are actually SL lying lower in graphics cards I have no way of seeing that data so I don't know if what they said is true that's up to you guys to decide but if you're looking at buying one of these and one of these in the future and putting them together unfortunately you can't do that but if you just want a single graphics card that can absolutely blow the doors off of triple-a titles at 1080p and 1440p and high or max settings it's definitely a card worth looking at it does it quiet efficient and pretty much silent anyway guys thanks for watching today's video sound off in the comments I really really want to know what you guys think about the SLI thing I think it's a mistake personally but then again I'm not the company so what I say is just my opinion I want curious as to what you guys have to say about it sound off in the comments or hit me up on Twitter or Facebook you can find the links to those down below and as always guys thanks for watching and I will see you in the next video