Well this is my $259 Gainward GTX 1060, The most basic version with a dual fan cooler, it is a tiny card compared to Gaming X etc. similar in size to reference cards and has the same reference clocks 1506/1709/2002MHz that boost to 1847MHz under load.
Mine runs 1706/1909/2252MHz OCed now. Which seems to boost it to 2050MHz once warmed up. Don't even need to raise the power, temp limits or add voltage but I did raise power and temp anyway. That's on 6pin with 3+1 phase. Stock voltage on load is 1.043V even OCed, overvoltage goes to 1.09xV. It does not seem to like going for 2100MHz in boost with higher base OC even with added voltage. Above 2000MHz it likes to start to sing a bit in "coil" whine.
Like AMD 4xx where 1400MHz+ is rare so is 10xx going 2100MHz+.
The gain from OC seems to be around 10% overall. Seeing this is the cheapest lowest binned chip card it's not bad at all to get up there to 2050MHz and 9GHz on VRAM. More testing needed with some games that aren't alpha/beta crashy crap. +11% on core clock, 12.5% on VRAM speed, so with this +200/500 profile it should be doing about 11.75% faster. I've run +180/400 yesterday in Doom and that was about +10% in fps. This card is plenty fast at stock for all games I've tried maxed out at 1920x1200px, sure there are titles like Arma 3 that run like total garbage maxed out at 60fps but bring it down to visually equal high settings and it runs much faster on these poorly written engines. No problem at all with Doom, Battlefield 1, Evolve, nor older DX11 games.
Fans stop at idle and card idles at 36C in my closed case with slow running 140mm fans. Playing video and using MadVR without crazy settings, fans still not spinning.
The fans are supposed to be PowerLogic 92mm, I think they are sleeve bearing by seeing the part no. They are quiet for the speed they run but sometimes there was this low frequency hum which was strange, you know like 1Hz.
Some pics from OCnet that I can't find author of again and a
review with pictures:
PLD09210S12HH = IMHO PL a series, D transparent smoke plastic blade, 092 92mm size, 10 don't know, S sleeve, 12 12V, HH high high speed 3000rpm max.
The cooler is not that big at all maybe even smaller than on RX 480 Nitro, there are no vents top or bottom and all air is trying to be pushed out back or front. It is kind of all-in-one cooler and cools everything. There are no silly LEDs anywhere, this card is not a xmas tree.
Temperatures on load stay around 73C 1750rpm, depends on game it can go from 69C to 74C up to 1800rpm. OCed 74-75C it seems in Heaven. With power and temp limit to the minimum it runs on base clock, still damn fast and consumes what was it like 60W? Crazy. I will have to check that again.
As always MSI AB can't control a damn thing voltage wise, seems like that only works for MSI cards and that's it.
EVGA Precision XOC can control the whole card including voltage. But it can have trouble, inability to reverse reduced power/temp. limits.
Gainward OC tool works too but the frequency slider need 2x values for core clock, someone messed that up. It can save VBIOS too. GPUz cannot save, I just tried.
As usual the card has a weird design like all 1060s where Nvidia probably misinformed/rushed 1060 to production and all the 1060 boards are designed for 256bit bus 8 VRAM chips and this one also for 8pin power on PCB and the plastic shroud too fits 8pin power connector, including unused space on PCB for stronger VRM with more phases. Maybe they were expecting a cut down GP104...
Overall a decent card and Nvidia seems to be focusing on power efficiency only since their debacle with the 4xx 5xx series and guess what, just like Intel with CPUs was forced by AMD to do the same and was crushing AMD since... similar story seems to repeat on the GPU market. If only AMD would learn that already and pushed even more for better efficiency and for gorram sake availability.
This Gainward GTX 1060 is probably the most sold GPU in Europe this summer. Palit and PNY also sell the same card with a little different styling, all the companies seem to be connected/one company selling under multiple brand names.
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