Installation
The Zotac GeForce GTX 1060 AMP Edition is much lighter in weight and more compact than its bigger brother, the GTX 1070. So installing this graphics was a breeze. The card should fit into most chassis, big or small. However do bear in mind, the card does takes up 2 PCI-E slots space.
For our test rig, we used a Thermaltake Core P3 chassis with a x16 PCIE extender cable, which means we were able to mount the card vertically as shown below. Pretty cool huh? 😉
Test Bench
For our tests, we used a completely new test rig which comprises of an ASRock Fatal1ty X99X Killer 3.1 motherboard, along with an Intel Core i7-6800K at default clock speed of 3.4GHz, as well as 32GB of ADATA DDR4-2400 ram in quad channel mode.
All tests were conducted at default clock speeds at a resolution of 1920×1080. High or Ultra settings enabled.
| CPU | Intel Core i7-6800K @ 3.4GHz |
| Cooling | XSPC RayStorm Pro CPU waterblock |
| Motherboard | ASRock Fatal1ty X99X Killer 3.1 |
| Ram | 4 x 8GB ADATA XPG Dazzle DDR4-2400 |
| XMP 2.0 profiles | Memory timings : 16-16-16-39 @1.2v |
| HDD | Crucial MX300 – 750GB |
| PSU | Thermaltake Toughpower DSP G RGB 750W |
| VGA card | Zotac GeForce GTX 1060 AMP Edition (8GB GDDR5) |
| Watercooling |
Thermaltake Pacific RL240 D5 watercooling kit |
| Nvidia Drivers | Version 372.90 WHQL |
| OS | Windows 10 |
The Software
The Firestorm overclocking utility and software allows you to take AMP Edition GTX 1060’s pre-overclocked speed of 1577MHz even further … to a blazing 1771MHz and higher!
GPU-Z Information
AIDA64 GPGPU Benchmarks
PC Mark 8 (3D Test)
The 3D tests on PC Mark 8 shows the impressive performance of the Zotac GeForce GTX 1070 AMP Edition. The graphs and screenshot above speaks for itself.
2 comments
single mem thermal pads are on the wrong side of radiator
hahaha … you’re right, I just noticed that 🙂