Before we get to that let’s take a closer look at the card itself.
Like the Founders Edition, the Phoenix GS measures 250mm long.
Whereas Nvidia’s design stands 110mm tall the Gainward card is 123mm tall thanks to the oversized cooler.
Speaking of which, the cooler has been constructed primarily from plastic but does feature anodized aluminium trimmings.
Moving air over the heatsink below are a pair of 90mm fans featuring Gainward’s new blade fin design.
These fans are extremely quiet, even when the card has been placed under load for an extended period.
In total there’s 210mm by 73mm at 28mm thick worth of heatsink.
The PCB design has been changed and now we find a 4+1 power phase design, a slight upgrade.
Out of the box the Gainward GTX 1060 Phoenix GS comes with a factory overclock.
The base clock has been set at 1620MHz which results in a boost clock of 1848MHz.
The memory has been left at 2002MHz resulting in a data rate of 8Gbps.
That’s an 8% core overclock and nothing on the memory.
The I/O configuration remains standard with a single dual-link DVI output, HDMI 2.0b and three DisplayPorts.
The Phoenix GS ran at 67 degrees, 3 degrees hotter than the Founders Edition card.
