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the defined iOS is quiet compact and it's built for mini ITX water-cooled systems just like this one but watch out if you get one Josh might just show up or your house randomly fractal design to find Nano as is small quiet and built for mini ITX water-cooled systems just like this one but if you get one watch out because frankly josh might just show up at any minute note Kyle's full of oh well I was immersive and pulse still Nigeria we've been here for like an hour dudes get the hell outta here the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 has launched this is the founders Edition which you can buy for $300 MSRP or we are told that there will also be two hundred and fifty dollar MSRP third-party designs but let's be honest we're told that with the GTX 1080 and 1070 as well so full may wants Nvidia shame that's a shame anyway though the questions I have for this card are how does it compare to the rx 480 recently launched by AMD Radeon will any of these cards actually sell for $250 or will they all be priced closer to the $300 founders Edition and is this shroud supposed to look like the Millennium Falcon or Batman or Optimus Prime maybe like a cyber pac-man okay so people usually love or hate the reference card design or founders Edition as they are now called by Nvidia personally though I think this one actually looks pretty nice consider that at a lower price you'll often get a less impressive cooler on third-party design graphics cards so this being a dual slot closed design cooler with a blower style fan green LED lit GeForce GTX logo and having a black and silver shroud made of cast aluminum gives it a pretty nice premium feel so perhaps more of a relative value here than with the 1080 and 1070 founders editions that have to go up against the very highest and third-party designs there is no backplate unfortunately that will definitely be a value add for custom third party cards PCB itself is just shy of 7 inches long about 175 millimeters so we've already been seeing really tiny versions of this card from third-party board manufactures with the shroud and the blower it's just under 10 inches long total about 250 millimeters a 6-pin PCI Express power connector is located at the end of the shroud rather than where the PCB ends which is actually pretty nice for cable management and an unobstructed view of the geforce gtx logo and nvidia says this card has a 120 watt TDP at the heart of the card is the new Pascal GPU the GP 106 little brother to the GP 104 used in the 1080 and 1070 it's still 16 nanometer Pascal architecture though with 4.4 billion transistors paired with six gigabytes 192 bit gddr5 memory at 8000 megahertz effective clock speed 10 streaming multi processors 1280 CUDA cores 80 texture units hundred and ninety-two gigabytes per second of memory bandwidth and 48 ROPS round out the specs since this is a Pascal GPU you also get to take advantage of new Pascal technologies including simultaneous multi-project for more on those check out my GT X 1080 intro video which I'll link right up there no SLI bridge on this card means no traditional SLI support not even two-way which I'm kind of on the fence about I never really recommended two-way SLI configs in the past with sixty series cards like the GTX 660 or 960 but I don't like having options removed from the consumer either you could still use direct x12 Lda explicit mode to pair up a couple of 10 60s or MDA mode to add other non 1060 or non Nvidia cards even with multi adapter but that would also require a well-designed DirectX 12 title it properly leverages and balances multi-gpu usage which in my opinion just doesn't really exist right now anyway though I will be discussing DirectX 12 and Vulcan more in depth in another video once the dust from this launch settles video outs are three DisplayPort 1.4 s1 HDMI 2.0 B and one DVI just like the 1080 and 1070 on to overclocking though my founders edition card had a lot of overclocking Headroom so expect to see some nicely factory overclocked third-party designs I used EVGA precision X and I ended up tacking 190 megahertz onto the GPU clock 250 megahertz onto the memory clock with power temp and voltage sliders maxed out at stock the card has a base clock of 1506 boost of 1709 max of 1911 and an average of 1835 with the overclock that jumped up to 1680 one base 18 for boost 2075 Max and 2037 megahertz average speed under full gaming load temperatures were pretty reasonable with the founder's edition 1060 if you compare it to the founders edition 1080 or 1070 it hits 72 degrees Celsius at stock with fan speed ranging from 30 to 50 percent with the overclock I set the fan manually to 70% and it hits 75 degrees Celsius max under load here's fan noise testing so you can hear for yourself we're going to start off at idle here's 40 percent fan speed typical at stock settings while gaming here's 70 percent which is what I had it set to while I was overclocking and here's 100 percent which you can use to annoy your roommates moving on to benchmarks I tested at 1920 by 1080 and 2560 by 1440 and since it is always controversial whether or not I use overclocked numbers I have both stock and overclocked numbers for the gtx 1060 as well as the RX for 80 AMD Radeon closest competing card I also reached the GTX 970 so you can compare in videos former best card in this range and here are my results so clearly the GTX 1060 is faster than the RX 480 but it also costs more there's also the DirectX 12 and Vulcan questions to be answered as these new AP eyes have asynchronous compute support which Nvidia still lacks hardware acceleration for I wanted to focus today's video more on currently playable titles however so I will be following up in the future with a dedicated video to DirectX 12 Vulcan an asynchronous compute hopefully with more info and further developments in that area finally some power draw results and please take these with a grain of salt as I'm recording peak wattage which isn't always consistent remember also that TDP which is 120 watts for the GTX 1060 150 watts for the R X 480 refers to how much heat needs to be dissipated by the cooler not how much power the card actually draws so I think what I'm actually going to do for anyone who wants more info on the power draw at least is link to the inevitable PC perspective review down below because they have much better power draw testing equipment than I do so check that down in the description ok its conclusion time once again and I think we can sum up the GTX 1060 thusly and video knows how this card performs so they've priced it accordingly to be more accurate it's about 5 to 20 percent faster than an Rx 480 depending on the test in the settings of course and for $300 it's 25% more expensive than the 240 dollar 8 gig version of the RX 480 so again NVIDIA has the faster option AMD Radeon appears to have the better cost to performance card if you're upgrading yes this is a very nice step up from the GTX 970 for a lower price if you're considering the 1060 versus the 480 right now I think it just comes down to budget and we're going to have to wait to see if in the coming months advances in DirectX 12 and Vulcan titles show Radeon gaining a significant edge in async compute performance or if the 8 gig of Ursa 6 queued for gig frame buffer has an impact at higher resolutions but basically if you're so going to spend 200 to 250 dollars get the RX 480 we're going to spend 250 to 300 get the 1060 lastly pricing and availability are important those were issues with 1070 and 1080 launches so I'm going to be keeping an eye on a video stock levels for this card after lunch and I think pricing criticism is well warranted - with the new and more expensive founders Edition versus the old style of creating a reference design that actually sells for the base price I for one I'm not going to be talking about a 250 dollar gtx 1060 until i actually see one for sale and in stock somewhere since the $600 GTA X 1080 MSRP still seems to be kind of a mythical unicorn that you only hear about it legends of PC gaming past I love to hear what you guys think of this card though so leave me your comments in the comment section down below do you guys like this Founders edition design for the GTX 1060 are you all going to be waiting for a DIN board partner models links to this card on Amazon as well as my Paul's hardware store where you can buy shirts like this one are in the description to hit the like button to get subscribe if you enjoyed and as always thank you very much for watching my videos