PALIT GTX 1060 Dual

[WereCat]

Hi there.

Today my new graphics card finaly arrived so I was able to play with it the entire day and so far I am really happy with it. (It has no backplate though).

 

 

The card is reference PCB with custom cooler.

Specs are:

 

Base clock - 1506MHz

Boost clock - 1708MHz

VRAM - 6GB

 

Out of the box the card actualy boosts to 1913MHz which is really nice. But as the temps go up the clock goes down as well and stabilizes at around 1880MHz which is still prety nice.

Even when overclocked the fan speed never went above 60% (2200 RPM - which is actualy quite silent) and temps never went above 75*C.

 

For comparison. The card was never louder than my Fractal Silent R2 fans (140mm) runing at 7V.

However when I manualy tuned fan speed to 70% the card was quite whiny.

 

My stable OC is:

 

2108MHz Core. (drops down to 2076MHz under load.. sometimes to 2050MHz just for a while then back up to 2076MHz).

4498MHz VRAM.

This gets me around 14,400 graphics score in Fire Strike.

 

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I was able to pass the benchmark with 2114MHz core and 4600MHz VRAM with no problem but I had stability issues in normal games. This got me to 14,840 graphics score.

I was also able to finish the benchmark with 2114MHz core and 4650MHz VRAM which would MAYBE get me to that magical 15,000 graphics score but even though it passed the benchmark there was a ton of artifacts and glitches and the benchmark detected it and failed to show me the score afterwards.

 

Everything I done while OCing was without touching voltage. I used MSI Afterburner and I was unable to change voltage here. I guess I would have to get EVGA PrecisionX maybe? Anyways.. I am quite happy with the OC. I expected a lot less with my luck.

 

 

 

EDIT:

Since I sold my GTX 770 before I managed to get 3D Mark I had no way to benchmark it. Can anyone post me FireStrike graphics score of GTX770 2GB for comparison (at around 1250MHz core, stock VRAM)? Thx.

[DildorTheDecent]

8 minutes ago, WereCat said:

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I was able to pass the benchmark with 2114MHz core and 4600MHz VRAM with no problem but I had stability issues in normal games. This got me to 14,840 graphics score.

I was also able to finish the benchmark with 2114MHz core and 4650MHz VRAM which would MAYBE get me to that magical 15,000 graphics score but even though it passed the benchmark there was a ton of artifacts and glitches and the benchmark detected it and failed to show me the score afterwards.

3dmark links? 

[WereCat]

2 minutes ago, DildorTheDecent said:

3dmark links? 

Where do I find the link? Is it in the program or do I have to make screen shot.

[DildorTheDecent]

Just now, WereCat said:

Where do I find the link? Is it in the program or do I have to make screen shot.

in the program and validate online. 

 

Or screenshot would do too. 

[WereCat]

6 minutes ago, DildorTheDecent said:

3dmark links? 

Oh nevermind, there you go:

Firestrike

http://www.3dmark.com/fs/9542651

http://www.3dmark.com/fs/9542309

http://www.3dmark.com/fs/9542208

http://www.3dmark.com/fs/9542133

 

Firestrike Extreme

http://www.3dmark.com/fs/9542808

 

TimeSpy

http://www.3dmark.com/spy/167411

[DildorTheDecent]

3 minutes ago, WereCat said:

Oh nevermind, there you go:

Firestrike

http://www.3dmark.com/fs/9542651

http://www.3dmark.com/fs/9542309

http://www.3dmark.com/fs/9542208

http://www.3dmark.com/fs/9542133

 

Firestrike Extreme

http://www.3dmark.com/fs/9542808

 

TimeSpy

http://www.3dmark.com/spy/167411

GTX 1060 does appear to be close to a GTX 980 reference. 

 

That's not a bad result at all though. Definitely try and see how fast it can go. That's always exciting. Crank the fans to max to maintain the boost clock too. 

 

Then post here: 

 

[WereCat]

3 minutes ago, DildorTheDecent said:

GTX 1060 does appear to be close to a GTX 980 reference. 

 

That's not a bad result at all though. Definitely try and see how fast it can go. That's always exciting. Crank the fans to max to maintain the boost clock too. 

 

Then post here: 

 

Thanks. I will definitely play more with it but tomorrow. Time to sleep now.