Gigabyte GeForce GTX 960 G1 Gaming: Killer 1080P Gaming

Name: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 960 G1 Gaming
Brand: Gigabyte

by Marco Chiappetta — Wednesday, September 02, 2015, 01:30 PM EDT

Square Enix set the tone for Thief by saying, "Garrett, the Master Thief, steps out of the shadows into the City. In this treacherous place, where the Baron’s Watch spreads a rising tide of fear and oppression, his skills are the only things he can trust. Even the most cautious citizens and their best-guarded possessions are not safe from his reach." The Thief series has been popular for years, not only for its interesting story lines and unique gameplay, but because the games have consistenty featured excellent graphics and imagery and leveraged bleeding edge technology, like AMD's Mantle API.

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The Radeons didn't behave properly in the Thief benchmarks on a new Win10-based test rig, when DirectX was used. Although we checked over the settings and re-ran the tests numerous time, the Radeons were locked at 30FPS. This game has support for Mantle, however, and when using the Mantle code path, the Radeons' performance fell in-line with expectations.

In this game, the trend we've seen in previous titles continued--the Gigabyte GeForce GTX 960 outpaced all of the other cards, but trailed the R9 285.

Tags: Nvidia, GeForce, Gigabyte, Gaming, graphics, GPU, gtx 960

Marco Chiappetta

Marco's interest in computing and technology dates all the way back to his early childhood. Even before being exposed to the Commodore P.E.T. and later the Commodore 64 in the early ‘80s, he was interested in electricity and electronics, and he still has the modded AFX cars and shop-worn soldering irons to prove it. Once he got his hands on his own Commodore 64, however, computing became Marco's passion. Throughout his academic and professional lives, Marco has worked with virtually every major platform from the TRS-80 and Amiga, to today's high end, multi-core servers. Over the years, he has worked in many fields related to technology and computing, including system design, assembly and sales, professional quality assurance testing, and technical writing. In addition to being the Managing Editor here at HotHardware for close to 15 years, Marco is also a freelance writer whose work has been published in a number of PC and technology related print publications and he is a regular fixture on HotHardware’s own Two and a Half Geeks webcast. - Contact: marco(at)hothardware(dot)com