VGA small but powerful: Two cards with Gigabyte GTX 960 GPU
Interest in video cards that are able to combine the adequate computing power to sizes compatible with smaller chassis pushed Gigabyte to introduce two GTX 960 cards, which do not give up dual fan cooling system.
The graphics card market has seen in recent months, the release of various solutions also medium-high distinguished by their compactness, particularly low. Products of this type allow to combine the high computing power to the possibility to be also installed in the chassis of very contained dimensions.
The recent debut of the card AMD Radeon R9 Fury X is further confirmation of the attention to the offer cards that are smaller but no less powerful. Specifically, it is the adoption of the HBM technology for the video memory that has allowed AMD to integrate all the components in a PCB of very contained dimensions.
Gigabyte continues this trend with two new cards based on GeForce GTX 960, characterized by an allocation of video memory respectively 2 and 4 Gbytes. As it can be seen clearly from the image the dimensions are very small, with a length of 18 cm, in spite of the use of a cooling system with a double fan-type windforce 2X.
The radiator is crossed by a single heatpipe 8 mm in diameter, while the power is supplied by a single connector PCI Express 6 pins.
Both cards feature default overclock for the GPU: the specification states in fact base clock of 1,190 MHz and 1,253 MHz boost clock, against values amounting to 1,127 MHz and 1,178 MHz as per the specifications of NVIDIA reference. Nothing changes from the slope memory: the bus is 128-bit wide, with GDDR5 modules to the actual clock frequency of 7 GHz.
