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Our acoustic measurements are less precise on this mid-range test system, the noise floor of the totally quiet testing room is 35 dBA as measured with a Benetech GM1351 Digital Sound Level Meter.
We take our measurements with the decibel meter protruding off the front-top section of the chassis, overhanging by exactly 1 inch. The underlying noise level of the system, generated by the 800 RPM Noctua case fans and H100i with fixed 700RPM fans is 39 dBA, thus anything above this level can be attributed to the graphics card since the PSU is passive for most of it's power capability.
Noise levels were measured after 10 minutes of load under three scenarios: Furmark GPU stress test, Unigine Valley looping at the Extreme HD preset and desktop idle.
The peak fan speed under furmark of 1700 RPM (47 %) is very quiet, barely noticeable above the background noise level from the PSU, CPU cooler and case fans. However, ASUS could perhaps be a little more reserved with the fan profile given how low the temperatures are.
At idle this graphics card does turn the fans off as part of a passive mode.
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Why isn’t there a GTX 980 in this lineup, seeing as it’s supposedly the 1060’s most comparable card? would have been interesting to see the differences between the two.
performance wise, a stock 1060 is like an overclocked 970
Hi N3XUS. While that may be true. Isn’t a heavily overclocked 970 comparable to a stock 980? I’ve heard elsewhere that the 1060 is around the 980 performance wise. Wondered why there wasn’t one included in the lineup. I would have been interested to see where the 1060 lay in between the two (970 and 980).
The card is phenomenal…. Only problem is the price here in Canada… retailers that have this particular model are charging upwards of $459 to $469… Not enough of a performance boost to replace a RX480 ($309 – $329 Canadian) and to close to a GTX 1070 price wise… (I would just step up to 1070 instead of getting this unit).
Hey! Yes, you’re right a 970 with a nice OC can indeed reach 980 levels of performance.
You should check out this vid if you’re still curious: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3W7WX6pjL-M
Why on the first screenshot on GTA V, there is 2048 video memory?
this one, or Gigabyte G1 gaming gtx 1060?
same base and boost clock
I’m sure I answered this question before, maybe it was someone else. Anyway the screenshots are there just to provide the settings we use for benchmarking each game. When these settings screenshots were taken it was a GTX 750 Ti, which has 2GB.
6-8 bucks? That’s not much mate. Learn to use a comma instead of a decimal point ya scamming cunt