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excellent what's up guys today's video is going to be about testing the new gtx 1060 just launched by nvidia on a 21 by 9 aspect ratio monitor that's 21 by 9 aspect ratio and the resolutions i'm going to be testing our 34 40 by 1440 which is the native resolution of my Acer predator X today for monitor back there also going to be testing at 2560 by 1080 where you can find more affordable monitors at that lower resolution but of course these are all 21 by 9 aspect ratio monitors also known as ultra wide and a couple weeks ago when the our X 480 from AMD launched I did some testing with this card specifically to see how it performs using these types of monitors the reasons are it's a pretty cool monitor resolution and aspect ratio to game at especially like a 34 inch 34 40 by 1440 but if you're looking for a wider more immersive experience and you've considered doing multi monitor configurations in the past and ultra wide is definitely a great option because you don't have to spend the money on three monitors you don't have to deal with bezels in between the monitors as you're setting them up and especially if you get like a curve wrap around one you can sit kind of in the sweet spot with it and it's just a fantastic experience it's a little bit more immersive gives you a wider field of view which could even potentially give you an edge in some games let's take a quick look at the Wikipedia page on 21 by 9 aspect ratio this matches up also with cinema scope so if you're into watching cinema scope style movies if you have access to that it's another great reason to do that the anamorphic format of 2.39 2 one and just to be very specific since we're dealing with aspect ratios and also fractions which could be reduced it's not actually 21 by 9 it's 21 and 1/3 by 9 if it wasn't 21 2/3 by 9 it would be 7 by 3 which doesn't roll off the tongue quite as easily anyway here's a comparison so 4 by 3 content natively looks like this it's just a little bit wider than it is tall if you move up to 16 by 9 it gets wider again 16 units wide by 9 units tall and then 21 by 9 is 21 units wide by 9 units tall so you can see natively 4 by 3 looks like this 16 by 9 looks like this 21 by 9 looks like this let's look at some actual years here these are all listed on new egg and being sold by new egg so you can tell 21 by now monitors actually have a pretty low entry price too so for 25 inch one you got an LG here 450 bucks hundred 60 bucks $190 a pretty decent range and then these of course scale up as the size goes up 29 inch you might also start to see some 34 40 by 1440 monitors in there with the 2560 by 1080 anyway though I will link this search in the description if you guys want to check it out as well as some more monitors available on Amazon the other thing you might consider if you're looking at a 21 by 9 monitor is getting a free sync or AG sync option I'm going to be using G sync back here but the g-sync monitors are a little bit more expensive free sync 29 inch 21 by 9 you can get for as little as 300 to 350 dollars and 2560 by 1080 at 29 inches is a very good aspect ratio and size if you jump up to 34 inch you will find 2560 by 1080 as well as 34 40 by 1440 monitors in there just bear in mind the 34 40 by 1440 ones do cost quite a bit more these are all free sync compatible so again if you're buying you will need to use an AMD GPU for them to work properly with this if you want G sync and this aspect ratio it gets a bit more expensive there's only 34 for 40 by 1440 models available that I could see my Acer predator X 3 for is $1,200 which is pretty expensive hey open box you can get a little bit cheaper but if you want G sync and this size and that aspect ratio you kind of got to pay a little bit of extra cash anyway the card I'm using though for today's benchmarks is the geforce gtx 1060 g1 gaming just launched and it works pretty good i'll show you more of that in just a second but first let's take a closer look at the card so the first thing you might notice is this is a pretty substantial card for a gtx 1060 it is long it's about 11 inches long total so make sure you have enough room in your case to fit the whole thing other than that it's got a windforce 2x cooling system so it's got two fans up on top the benefit you get from the increased size is that there's two huge aluminum fin stacks in there with some copper heat pipes transferring heat from the GPU over to them you also get a nice value-add of a backplate on here pretty clean looking design with the gigabyte logo on it it's also just all black with just that white logo so that's pretty nice there some orange accents on the shroud itself which are pretty minimal but if you're not building an orange system chances are these will be facing down and what really showed too much or you know you could paint over them if you really wanted to go that route as far as video outs they're pretty much standard for the 1063 display ports one HDMI one DVID and then they are introducing some RGB LEDs on this card the gigabytes logo lights up RGB the fan stop logo also lights up with LED and a van stopp logo of course will light up when the fans aren't spinning which they'll do if the card is at idle then they start spinning up with the when the card hits about 50 or 60 degrees Celsius oh yeah and I also did some overclocking on this card first before I ran any of these benchmarks so you're looking at some slightly juiced numbers I tried to keep things reasonable ended up dropping about 100 points onto the GPU at about 450 points onto the memory so the GPU under full load was running at about 2030 to 2050 memory was at 44 50 I figured this is a pretty reasonable overclock that most people should be able to hit even if you're buying a base level 250 dollar gtx 1060 gigabyte has provided a bit of extra power for this card with an 8 pin PCI Express graphics connector rather than a 6 pin and that's about all I have to say about this card physically let's see how it performs all right a little GTA 5 we're at 2560 by 1080 and just just kind of roaming around in the open world getting in the low 80s frame rate I'm recording the screen directly with the camera because as far as I know 21 by 9 capture cards do not exist yet and I'm using the overlay either with precision X or with the built in Vulcan overlay in Doom so you guys can see the frame rates and I've sort of blown that up and placed it in the bottom right corner so you can guys guys can get a better look at it for settings amusing pretty much the same setup that I use for benchmarking which is no FXAA MSAA 8x2 pretty much all the sliders set to high everything else set to very high in here I do have one or two things set to offer soft and soft shadows and then high on the ambient occlusion and tessellation get out a fucking way oh you big I can get you tickets it's my good deed for the day save that poor woman's life I gotta get some knockout gas here now you'll never catch me coppers actually they were never and really close to me one star is almost gone cop pops up out of nowhere scopes me didn't I get 5o on my tail like a bees uh not a Bears ass free mates been doing good originally I was in the mid to low 80s and now it's getting up over 100 from time to time hey last I got the good night guess that's everything we need I'll put upward to the scores ready to go scores ready nice all right sir verdict for gta5 2560 by 1080 is between 80 to 100 frames per second at least with the very high settings that I am using should be great for most monitors up to 100 Hertz and of course you can turn some settings down if you need to get a higher framerate for 120 or 140 for ready to switch over though 234 40 by 1440 all right so first glance at 34 40 by 1440 is a frame it's a little bit lower than we might find exact Bowl it's in the mid-50s so I'm actually going to make a couple adjustments to some settings here and see if we can get up into a more acceptable range alright so in order to improve the frame rate for 34:40 by 1440 I have done the following basically switch to couplings high texture and shader qualities also grass quality down to normal since grass quality can definitely have a huge impact that's just about it I got me a good 10 or 15 frames per second went from the mid 50s up to the all it's been about 70 to 80 depending on what I'm doing sometimes in the 60s of course you guys so with g-sync this should be OK for me for now these guys you'll kill got a make-out getaway get to the sewers so this reminds me of Terminator 2 for some reason take it out of the cops that's a gta5 you've been at 3440 by 1440 1060 still seems to be able to handle it pretty well it's got adjust a few settings to get well above sixty frames per second moving on to some doom starting off with 2560 by 1080 and I got the framerate counter going out there oh geez and I'm being attacked I try to do slightly better doing this time around oh this is a big guy isn't it danger all right point is I'm getting and shucks 100 hundred frames per second give or take up or down plus or minus something after me I hear noises so scary when you hear noises Elsa no idea where I'm supposed to be going really oh Jesus let's scare the shit out of me like you okay before we jump up to 34 34 40 by 1440 I have just turned the anti-aliasing mode to TSSAA a which I'm told is the mode that you're supposed to do in order to get to get the good asynchronous compute stuff working feels clunky er this is this looks wonderful as weird stuff going on with this TSSA that for yeah if it feels feels different and our frame rate seems to have dipped a little bit oh good okay hey where'd you come from people just popping up out of nowhere a bunch of weapon points that I should probably use and now let's go ahead and switch over to 30 for 40 by 1440 all right frame rate has definitely dropped down we got a lot of red showing up there because we're down below 60 frames per second it's no beauty so before I even get very far at all oh look there's another one of these convenient yeah before I get a very far at all I'm going to switch up some of these settings well we got TSSAA on so we're using asynchronous compute or some of the synchronous compute features if they have enabled here with the Vulcan then other than that were set to high graphics qualities the presets across the board let's kill some stuff nothing can go wrong ah well that was fun demonic threat reduced by 50% good like it gives you the percentages what overwatch its 2560 by 1080 damaged goods I'm noticing that the frame rate is dropping and showing like 14 fps at times that seems to be a glitch that's definitely not Oh get off me hey that was bad timing but yeah I'm getting it showing 14 frames per second at times that's not actually happening when it's at 100 or 95 or whatever in that range that's what's actually that's what I'm actually getting ah yeah everyone was getting a very nice frame rate at 2560 by 1080 at least in the 95 to 105 FPS range switching it up now to 30 for 40 by 1440 the humans who live here are fools to trust the omni's they will see answer just for starters here 34 40 by 1440 getting in the mids mid to upper 60s again the you might see the counter dropping down to 1314 FPS that is a glitch it is actually not dropping that low framerate I can tell is the shoe okay I'm still at 34 40 by 1440 but I have switched from epic to ultra settings and did the restart already so I'm going to see what this does to my framerate again I do have a hundred Hertz monitor so if I can get closer to 100 frames per second that would be nice all right so when the FPS counter is working it's going between 90 and maybe a hundred two hundred and ten frames per second I guess it's also dipping down to the 80s sometimes as well oh I should be healing anyway though definitely very nice and playable and again that's an ultra just one step down from epic so those are my test guys and I hope if you were looking at a 21 by 9 monitor this has helped you make a bit of a better decision I think the GTX 1060 is a very viable option especially at 2560 by 1080 if you're going 34 40 by 1440 you might have to turn a few more settings down to get playable frame rates especially if you're going in the plus 100 Hertz range but overall pretty impressive the performance and I think it's a great option if you're going 34 40 by 1440 you might consider something a little bit higher end like a gtx 1070 or maybe one of the newer AMD cards especially the newer ones that they're supposed to launch very soon although I know nothing about those but if you enjoyed this video hit the thumbs up button and let me know also down in a description you can find links to stuff like my store or you can buy shirts and mugs and paint glasses and as always thank you very much for watching my videos