Gigabyte GTX960 G1 Gaming SOC Review

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We set Quality to ‘Ultra', Tessellation to ‘Normal', Anti Aliasing to 4 times and the resolution to 1920×1080 (1080p).


At the ‘out of the box' speeds, the Sapphire Dual X R9 285 manages to just outscore the Gigabyte GTX960 G1 Gaming. When we increase the turbo boost speed to 1,463mhz the positions are reversed.

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