Whats the difference?

[Koroto]

A really simple question, whats the difference between the Gaming version of a graphics card and a non gaming version? The gaming one should be a little more expensive but with this one's not the case. So i want to pickup a 1060 and i was wondering whats the difference between Asus GeForce GTX 1060, 6GB, GDDR5, Strix Gaming and a Asus GeForce GTX 1060, 6GB, GDDR5, ROG Strix OC? Im looking for the more powerfull one, ofcourse for gaming.

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

This is the faster of the two cards , I own it , great card.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814126113&cm_re=GTX_1060-_-14-126-113-_-Product
ASUS GeForce GTX 1060 6GB ROG STRIX OC Edition VR Ready HDMI 2.0 DP 1.4 Auto-extreme Graphics Card



6GB 192-Bit GDDR5
Core Clock OC mode: 1645 MHz
Gaming mode: 1620 MHz
Boost Clock OC mode: 1873 MHz
Gaming mode: 1847 MHz
1 x Native Dual-link DVI-D 2 x Native HDMI 2.0 2 x Native DisplayPort 1.4
1280 CUDA Cores
PCI Express 3.0

 

[lucas_7_94]

The only differences is the latest you mentioned comes with higher clock/boost out the box.

 

[Wolfshadw]

It's called marketing.

ASUS has a couple thousand GTX 1060 ROG class graphic cards which they will sell. They also have several tens of thousands GTX 1060 cards which don't match the "ROG" specs, so they classify them as "gaming" cards simply because the word, "Gaming" increases sales.

-Wolf sends

 

[Koroto]

The only differences is the latest you mentioned comes with higher clock/boost out the box.

So ultimately the OC one's better, right?

 

[lucas_7_94]

Hypothetically, yes. But its a 3-5 fps difference (Check benchmarks before picking), depends of you if that 'boost' performance worth for the money.

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

Yes it's a tiny bit better , but not much at all , I own the card , but you can probably get the same performance out of the other one with a small overclock. Difference is very minimal.