Nvidia on Thursday launched the GeForce GTX 1060, a $250 desktop video card (roughly £195 or AU$335) which, it claims, will be 15 percent faster than AMD’s recent effort on average and 75 percent more power efficient.
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The big feature for the 1060 is that it supports simultaneous multi-projection.
That’s some pretty awesome performance right there – because let’s face it, the 1080 is hardly a slouch.
Graphics specialist NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA) is expected to launch its next generation mid-range desktop graphics processor, known as the GeForce GTX 1060, later this month. The GTX 1060 Founder’s Edition board will be available as well for $299.
While built with a different Pascal chip than its more expensive brothers (GP106 to their GP104), the GTX 1060 still offers all the benefits of Nvidia’s FinFET 16nm process. Seemingly ahead of schedule, Nvidia is rushing out word of its anticipated response, the GeForce GTX 1060, which trickles down some of that excellent GTX 1080 and 1070 performance to the more affordable tier. The new card features 1,280 CUDA cores, 6GB of GDDR5 memory running at 8Gbps and a boost clock of 1.7GHz, which can be overclocked to 2GHz. A new custom 10-phase PCB design using Military Class 4 components with an 8+ 6-pin power connectors enables higher overclocking performance to push the graphics card to the max. It complements the other graphics cards in Nvidia’s Pascal family of GPUs aimed at gaming and virtual reality (VR) applications, and comes a week after rival Advanced Micro Devices unveiled its powerful and affordable Radeon RX 480, which also is created to bring high-performance gaming and VR to a wider audience. Previous reports indicated that the GTX 1060 had the RX 480 beat in benchmark tests, and the specs released by Nvidia today seem to back up those findings. But long-time rival Nvidia already has an answer to AMD.
The GTX 1060 will be available from July 19, which is also when you’ll see reviews, including ours, go live.
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The Radeon RX 480 is not meant to be the card that competes with the GTX 1080 and takes it down both in quality in price.
