3DMark
3DMark is the latest version of this hugely-popular synthetic benchmark. Making use of DX11 features such as tessellation, compute shaders and multi-threading, it provides modern-day results and is available as a free download.
That's an interesting start to proceedings. Gigabyte's G1 Gaming isn't the highest-clocked GTX 960 in our lineup, yet it manages to creep ahead of the GM206 pack. What's going on? Digging into our log files reveals an adventurous boost profile, as the GTX 960 G1 Gaming was found to be frequenting 1,506MHz right out of the box.