AMD’s version is the Radeon RX 480 and it’s priced at $199, a low price that AMD hoped would help it to gain ground on NVDA, which is now estimated to power almost three quarters of gaming PCs.
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Currently, the AMD Radeon RX 480 8GB can be found for €269 in most of the Europe so Nvidia GTX 1060 should provide at least some performance improvement in order to be a valid competitor.
Included with VRWorks is NVIDIA Simultaneous Multi-Projection technology, which allows the GTX 1060 to seamlessly project a single image simultaneously to both eyes, yielding a 3x VR graphics performance improvement over previous generation GPUs.
The Omen desktop tower will also feature extensive VR gaming support (heavily indicating support for Nvidia’s GTX 1080 GPU) and the tower design also comes with an integrated water cooling system. Powered byNVIDIA Pascal™-the most advanced GPU architecture ever created-the GeForce GTX 1060 delivers brilliant performance that opens the door to virtual reality and beyond. The newest entry in the 10-series of Pascal graphics cards, the GTX 1060 will reportedly offer consumers GTX 980-level performance for only $249.
Nvidia is also releasing a Founder’s Edition of the GTX 1060, available only from Nvidia directly, for $300.
Falcon Northwest Computer is also selling their Fragbox with the GTX 1080 and Intel Z170 chipset which easily shoots for $2376 on just an Intel i5 6500 processor. In case of any power abnormality, the flashing LED adjacent to the power connector could immediately bring the issue to the gamer’s attention; a consistent light signals power disconnection.
GTX 1060 board partners will start releasing cards with custom coolers on July 19, with GeForce Partners such as ASUS, MSI, Zotac, EVGA, and more producing cards with an MSRP of around $249.
As for the awesomely powerful new Omen Desktop tower, it’s going on sale in August and while HP still hasn’t revealed a full specs breakdown or pricing details, we do know a few things about the Omen tower. The GTX 1060 is aimed at the massive I-just-want-to-play-PC-games market.
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With the new Titan, fluid 4K gaming should definitely be a reality, then, and it’s your CPU that will be the potential frame-rate bottleneck rather than the GPU. According to the data from NVIDIA, the new GTX 1060 is 15 percent faster and is 75 more power efficient that its closest competitors in the same field. However, people might have to wait for official test once the GTX 1060 arrives.
