GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1060 Mini ITX OC 6GB Review
Peter Donnell / 7 years ago
Acoustic, Thermal and Power Testing
Acoustic Performance
Amazingly, this card offers a silent fan mode, and in low-load scenarios it’ll shut off completely, giving you a perfectly silent graphics card. What’s impressive is that even when we did fire up a few games and benchmarks, the fan didn’t have to kick in for quite a while. The passive cooling capabilities are very good, and even when the fan did start, it was quiet as a mouse.
Thermal Performance
The 1060 maxed out at just 68c, which is nothing really considering the card is only cooled by a single fan!
Power Usage
The card trumps the 480 again here, jusing considerably less power, despite offering similar performance in our benchmarks.
