Nvidia Geforce GTX 1060 Founder's Edition Pictured Some More - Will Put VR Ready Performance In The Hands of Mainstream Gamers

Some more close upward shots of the upcoming GTX 1060 graphics card have leaked out on ChipHell. Featuring the Pascal based GP106 core, the budget GPU will exist going head to caput against the RX 480 and will exist supporting a similar price tag. Based on the 16nm FinFET process the card is expected to striking the shelves this month. The preliminary functioning reports put information technology ahead of the RX 480 admitting with 2 GB less vRAM.

Nvidia Geforce GTX 1060 shut upwards shots - VR Ready functioning at a upkeep price point

Co-ordinate to the official printing cloth, the card is expected to take 6GB of GDDR5 retentivity clocked at viii Gbps. The card will only use a unmarried 6-pin connector and will have a power draw of 120W. It will exist using a GP106 core with 1280 CUDA cores and ane.vii Ghz heave clock (the base of operations clock is currently not confirmed). The design follows the aforementioned 'order of 10' aesthetic that Nvidia has used for the GTX 1080 and GTX 1070 with a slight departure in the styling of this detail card. The menu will feature 3 Display Ports, ane DVI-D and one HDMI 2.0. The PCB itself is pretty small-scale in size, with the shroud of the carte extending ahead of the PCB.

Pictured below are images of the founder'southward edition courtesy of ChipHell:

This carte du jour is going to be the cheapest VR-Ready graphics menu from Nvidia and has been positioned explicitly against the RX 480. Which is why, even though nosotros exercise non know what the MSRP will exist, it should be somewhere effectually the $250 mark. The 8GB variant of the RX 480 costs $239 and so keeping in mind Nvidia'southward past pricing policies, the $250 mark will be a heavily contested i. The RX 480 has come across some initial bad press regarding an over-the-line ability draw on the mobo side of things but AMD has already released a fix for the same. That said, while Nvidia offers college raw operation for VR, the RX 480 volition offer a higher vRAM count.

Both GPUs are exceptionally skilful graphics cards built on the FinFET technology and should open up a completely new era for gamers. This particular price signal in the spectrum of graphics cards was normally dubbed every bit "upkeep" but brand no fault this time - both the RX 480 and GTX 1060 graphics cards are exceptionally powerful GPUs with a very strong value proposal. As far as bringing down the price of VR is concerned, both offerings successfully lower the price past almost half. The adjacent thing that must come down for VR to get mainstream is of grade, the price of the HMD. Both Oculu and HTC Vive are currently supporting toll tags upwards of the $700 mark - or in other words, out of the budget of nearly gamers.

The GeForce GTX 1060 performance results were besides leaked (covered over here)and show some actually interesting figures. In 3DMark Firestrike Ultra, the GeForce GTX 1060 scores 3014 points while the Radeon RX 480 was scoring effectually 2600-2800 points. That is a 7-8% increase over the RX 480. The GeForce GTX 1060 also scores 11225 points in Firestrike Operation while the Radeon RX 480 was scoring 10500 – 10600 points in several 3DMark entries on reference clocks. Information technology should be pointed that the benchmarks were tested without official drivers as NVIDIA has yet to ship GTX 1060 drivers to reviewers.

Nvidia Geforce GTX 1060 Official Specifications

Graphics Bill of fare Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060
Graphics Core	GP106
Process Node	16nm FinFET
Transistors	TBD
CUDA Cores	1280 CUDA Cores
Base Clock	1506 MHz
Boost Clock	1708 MHz
FP32 Compute	TBD
VRAM	6 GB GDDR5
Jitney Interface	192-bit jitney
Power Connector	Single 6-Pivot Ability
TDP	120W
Display Outputs	3x Display Port 1.4 1x HDMI 2.0b 1x DVI
Launch Engagement	13th July 2022
Launch Cost	~$250 United states