Which GTX 1060 model should pick?

lavenzo · Sep 18, 2017

Hi i'm planning to upgrade my 660ti to 1060. Im considering below model & price in my country, advice please

gigabyte gtx 1060 G1 gaming: $305 (3 years warranty)
gigabyte gtx 1060 Windforce: $275 (3 years warranty)
zotac gtx 1060 AMP! with backplate: $318 ( 5 years warranty)

im leaning toward to the zotac one for its warranty but for the same price i can get G1 for higher clock speed and maybe cooling? Does the warranty really matters? my current 660ti died after 5 years usage

Thanks.

photonboy · Sep 18, 2017

They should all overclock to about the same amount, and even if the frequency is slightly different WITHOUT OVERCLOCKING the dynamic nature of GPU frequency could produce similar results.

I suggest you simply use NEWEGG (not Amazon as it mixes reviews for similar products) to use customer feedback to help judge product quality.

Look at both the AVERAGE egg score, and the 1/5 and 2/5 scores to look for common issues (like failures, or coil whine etc).

IInuyasha74 · Sep 19, 2017

Double check the clock speeds on all of them. Not a huge deal, but the factory overclock sometimes provides a decent little bump, and if you don't want to overclock that becomes more important. You also want to double-check the memory clock speeds, as some GTX 1060s have 9Gbps GDDR5. That also can provide a decent little boost in performance.

I searched the cards you listed, but unfortunately I can't give you a sure answer. There are a few cards that have almost identical names, so I can't be sure which you are looking at. From what I did find, however, the Gigabyte Windforce card looks to be the better option of the two Gigabyte options. It is higher clocked, has a better cooler, and looks to have an improved power design.

lavenzo · Sep 19, 2017

IInuyasha74 :

Double check the clock speeds on all of them. Not a huge deal, but the factory overclock sometimes provides a decent little bump, and if you don't want to overclock that becomes more important. You also want to double-check the memory clock speeds, as some GTX 1060s have 9Gbps GDDR5. That also can provide a decent little boost in performance.

I searched the cards you listed, but unfortunately I can't give you a sure answer. There are a few cards that have almost identical names, so I can't be sure which you are looking at. From what I did find, however, the Gigabyte Windforce card looks to be the better option of the two Gigabyte options. It is higher clocked, has a better cooler, and looks to have an improved power design.

hi i've updated the link to those card

IInuyasha74 · Sep 19, 2017

Hard pick then. Might just go with the Zotac because it is cheapest at the moment.

For cooling performance, the Zotac is probably in the lead, it uses more copper heatpipes, but it lacks a backplate. The Windforce card should cool better than the Gigabyte G1 Gaming card, because it has larger fans. The G1 Gaming card comes clocked the highest, but the Zotac is just a few MHz behind. Not a big difference there.

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