The 7850 reimbursement that served for many years in April was forced to start the ASUS R9-380 for transition and prepare for a new generation of graphics cards a few months later. In the process of searching for new graphics card, experienced Rx 480 from the much anticipated to the word of mouth crash, GTX 1070 get off the car on a variety of cars, and even the graphics card to the door to return directly to the pit father thing, gradually frustrated, ready to wait until the double 11 Consider again.
At this time, Nvidia's new generation of mid-range graphics cards - the GTX 1060 finally debut, the price of the early 2000, the performance of the 980 is exactly in line with the needs of my 1080P screen, so decided to shot. According to the non-public comparison of the previous GTX 1070/1080 brands, MSI's Gaming series (also known as Red Dragon) is the most balanced product of this generation, so I also chose this series to play as the next few years. Game protection.
Compared to the exaggerated packaging of many manufacturers, MSI's package size is considered normal, and the basic guarantee for the protection of graphics cards is actually sufficient. Just still a bit puzzled, why are now popular in addition to use a flat box to install attachments (the last Asus Strix 380 is also), personally think it is superfluous. Attachments, manuals, CD-ROMs, warranty cards, stickers, power adapters, are all there, but there is no special place. In addition, there is no drive on the CD-ROM, only the download driver GeForcece Experience software, the driver must be downloaded to the Nvidia official website, so like me in the NDA before lifting the ban to get the video card, completely tragedy.
Packaging
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Picked up the accessory box and finally saw the video card in the electrostatic bag. There is a "zero noise space" sticker on the graphics card fan to advertise its fan stall technology, which must be removed before running the game or testing.
Compared to the previously purchased ASUS R9-380 Strix, the two cards are almost the same size (I thought the Red Dragon would be bigger), the 1060 Red Dragon's fan diameter is larger, and the Asus 380 Strix's heat pipe is thicker.
In the upper and lower view, you can clearly see that the three heat pipes, although shrinking compared to the five heat pipes of 1070/1080, do not have such a high heat output in 1060. The later tests also fully show that the three heat pipes and double fans are sufficient to deal with .
The fan diameter is 10cm, and the fan blade has a special curvature. MSI propaganda shows that this special curvature fan can introduce more airflow and accelerate the cooling rate.
The graphics card uses an 8-pin power connector, and the previously purchased power cord is actually used. However, in order to avoid the GTX 1080 status of the GTX 1060 SLI, Nvidia cancelled the SLI interface, and the desire for dual-card upgrade would be frustrated.
The opening of the backboard, I do not know if it is for cooling services, Dragon Logo is quite beautiful, but in fact not much to see inside the chassis. what? Do you want a better looking backplane, preferably with lights? Please purchase Gaming Z series.
For the interface, the configuration of Display Port x3, HDMI x1, and DVI x1 is the same as that of the public version. It should be noted that the GTX 1070/1080 cannot output VGA signals through the interface. Whether or not the GTX 1060 is so I have not tested it (I don't need it anyway), but if you are interested in buying and the monitor has only VGA interface, please understand it first. it is good.
The graphics card is still quite long. To tilt it slightly into the chassis, it is beyond my expectation. Fortunately, the H440 can remove the hard disk drive and all kinds of video cards are fearless. After the power was turned on, the RGB Believe lights worked well, but I took a screenshot.
Still want to introduce this tasteless, abandoned the pity fan stall technology. At least in this video card, this technology is not necessary, because even when running points and games, the fan speed is generally not more than 1000 rpm, after the cover plate, in fact, can not hear the sound.
The default base frequency of the MSI GTX 1060 GAMING X is 1569MHz, and the default Boost frequency is 1784MHz. Compared with the public version, the frequency is slightly improved. According to the test, the game or running frequency will be stable at around 1950MHz without overclocking.
MSI has specially developed Gaming App software for Gaming products (mainboard, graphics card, mouse, etc.), which can switch several preset frequencies of the graphics card, adjust the fan speed, adjust the LED lamp color effects, and even adjust the output color temperature. Perfect, but there is room for improvement in ease of use. At least a few preset frequency templates cannot be adjusted and I would like to give a bad review.
The main configuration of this machine, or what kind of last time
After loading the official newly announced 368.81 driver, 3DMark's running points, Fire Strike Extreme 6343 points, slightly higher than the public version, of course, slightly higher than the GTX 980 and Rx 480. The new version of Direct Spy based on DirectX 12, then ran out of 4143 graphics scores. When running 3Dmark, the frequency is maintained at about 1950MHz, and the temperature is steadily controlled at 65 °C, the fan is only 800 + PRM speed, very quiet.
In terms of temperature control, the Furmark 720p is running for more than 15 minutes, the temperature is always controlled at about 70°C, and the fan's speed is increased to over 1300PRM. It seems that the frequency reduction mechanism has been triggered at this time, and the frequency is only kept at around 1780MHz.
Assassin's Creed - Revolution
Continue to follow the order of the last time, first by Arnold.
After changing the new video card, I finally could run in Paris. The entire game process is basically maintained at 50 frames. The number of frames in the densely populated area is slightly lower, and the number of frames after going up the roof rises. It seems that the concept of UBI people with the screen is indeed a great performance for PC. burden.
Assassin's Creed - æžé›„
What's a pity is that I don't have a chapter, so I can only test in the scene of the prologue. Under the highest quality, Axiom's detailed performance seems to be a victory over the Great Revolution, and the average frame rate of 46.45 is indeed slightly lower than the Great Revolution. I hope this video card can still maintain the highest quality in London.
Dragon Age - Judgment
As a game released at the end of 2014, the image quality of Dragon Age-Trial did not appear to be so counter-intuitive. The strength of the Frostwing 3 engine may not lie in the details. In addition, after changing from R9-380 to GTX 1060, it seems that the colors are not bright before. Since there is no comparison test, it is not my fault.
GTA V
When testing GTA V, it was found that although the overall frame rate was higher after the vertical synchronization was turned off, occasional catoning occurred during the game. Therefore, the test data here is only recorded for Benchmark frames. And most of the time I tried to open the vertical synchronization and stabilized at 60 frames, and overclocking under this frame number has no meaning, so the following OC comparison will not have GTA V project.
Sorcerer 3
Into the game, the first picture of the Quint Card 3 is amazing, and the details and vision are amazing. However, under the highest quality, after entering the woods, under the shadow of large areas, the overall frame rate dropped significantly and fell to only 30 frames in the beginning. It seems that the GTX 1060 wants to play the Quint Card 3, or to lower the picture quality slightly.
Tomb Raider - The Rise
Also using Nvidia's Hairworks technology, Tomb Raider's hair is clearly more impressive than Shaman 3, and it seems that Lara's long hair is indeed the best carrier for a variety of "Haifeisi" techniques. According to several tests, the GTX 1060 cannot maintain a very smooth picture at the highest picture quality. It is necessary to reduce the SMAA from 4x to 1x for smooth operation. However, this adjustment has no obvious effect on picture quality, so it can be considered that the GTX 1060 is also basic. Competent highest quality. In addition, compared to DX 11, DX 12 is basically no difference in the number of frames or picture quality, it seems that game and video card developers to optimize the DX 12 needs to be improved.
In addition, there is finally a game that comes with Benchmark, I do not have to use Fraps to record the number of frames.
Quantum fragmentation
The matrix is ​​still UWP platform, based on DX 12, Microsoft's exclusive masterpiece - unable to record the number of frames - quantum fragmentation, but this time I finally found a software that can display the number of frames on it. Under the highest quality, the GTX 1060 can maintain a level of about 40 frames, but the highest quality and relative high picture quality of quantum shattering are not obvious. If you want to play smoothly, it is obviously better to reduce the picture quality slightly.
Performance summary
Through comparison of several masterpieces, it was found that the GTX 1060 can only be said to be basically capable of the highest quality requirements under 1080P. If the fluency is more sensitive, it is obviously more choice to reduce the picture quality slightly. However, as a person playing games for 30 frames in a long period of time, I have been very satisfied with this performance.
Someone on the forum overclocked the Red Dragon 1060 and eventually ran 3Dmark to stabilize at the actual frequency of 2150MHz/9100MHz. However, due to the differences in chip quality and power supply stability (I was just an ordinary 450W power supply), I had this card. In the end, it can only stabilize the Boost frequency to 1920MHz and the memory frequency to 8940MHz.
Due to the small difference in scores, all the overclocking tests were performed at the Boost frequency of 1915MHz and the memory frequency of 8900MHz (Boost increased by 7% and memory increased by 11%). The actual maximum frequency was maintained at 2088MHz/8900MHz.
After overclocking, the FSE score increased by more than 8% to 6859, while Time Spy also increased to the same basic increase of 4505 points.
The improvement of game performance is greater than theoretical performance. Both males and wizards have more than 10% increase, and Tomb Raider has an increase of nearly 15%. If the fluency is very sensitive, this range of overclocking is indeed very Significant.
In terms of temperature control, we can see from the previous running sub-test shot that even if overclocking, the fan speed still does not exceed 1000PRM, and the graphics card temperature is only maintained at 65 °C, and there is no significant increase. As for the Furmark test, due to the triggering of the down-conversion mechanism (the donut frequency was only stable at 1822 MHz), the 1325 PRM speed and the 71°C temperature were also very cool.
In summary, the performance level of the MSI GTX 1060 GAMING X slightly higher than the 980 version has basically been able to smoothly run most of the 3A masterpieces under the highest 1080P quality, and the temperature and noise control is very strong. In the early 2000s, The price is clearly worth the money, and friends in need may wish to consider it. Of course, the best value cards of this generation so far are still the GTX 1070 version of the driving price, which is how to consider comprehensively.
Thumbs up:
The performance is sufficient to run 3A smoothly under 1080P maximum picture quality;
Temperature and noise control is excellent;
RGB lights are full of faith;
MSI 3 year warranty and support personal delivery;
bomb:
A video card with no obvious short board, I really can't find anything that can be played. Maybe the overclocking rate is not a big one?
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