GeForce GTX 1060 announced - July 19, 6GB, $249 MSRP/$299 Founder's

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From VideoCardz.com. Lock if old. EDIT: More from Ars Technica:

While the full technical details behind the GTX 1060 aren't available just yet, Nvidia has revealed that the card is based on a new GP106 chip, rather than a binned version of the the GP104 chip used in the GTX 1080 and GTX 1070. The GTX 1060 sports 1280 CUDA cores, 6GB of GDDR5 memory running at 8GHz (only a 6GB version will be available), and a boost clock of 1.7GHz that Nvidia claims is easily overclocked to 2GHz and beyond. Power supply is via a single 6-pin connector. Like the GTX 1080 and GTX 1070, the GTX 1060 will be available from manufacturers like Asus, Zotac, and Gigabyte, as well as directly from Nvidia in Founders Edition form at a higher $299 (~£260) price. The extra $50 buys a dual-FET power supply, as well as a similar blower-style cooler to the more expensive Pascal cards, albeit one made out of plastic rather than metal. As with the other Pascal cards, the smart money is on buying one of the partner editions, which will offer identical or better performance (thanks to factory overclocks) than the Founders Edition. Notably, Nvidia is promising that both the Founders Edition and partner cards will be available to buy at launch on July 19. However, given the supply issues surrounding the GTX 1080 and GTX 1070 (and subsequent price jacking by unscrupulous retailers), it might be best to take that promise with a pinch of salt for now.

 

Additionally, Anandtech confirms that partner cards will be available at launch, and only Nvidia will sell FE cards:

For the July 19th launch, much like their higher end cards NVIDIA is going to be launching with two designs and two price points. Officially the GTX 1060 starts at $249; this will be for partner custom cards, and I expect this will be for the usual single/dual fan open air cooler designs that we saw with the GTX 960. Meanwhile at $299 NVIDIA is launching a Founders Edition card, which implements a full blower. However this is where the similarities end. Unlike the GTX 1080/1070 launch, the 19th is a hard launch for both the GTX 1060FE and for partner custom cards, and NVIDIA is expecting the bulk of the cards sold to be these custom cards. In this sense the GTX 1060 launch is more akin to the GTX 960 launch, as NVIDIA has more often than not opted to pass on producing reference cards for their mainstream cards. In fact NVIDIA's partners won't even be selling the GTX 1060FE; the card will only be available through NVIDIA's website. NVIIDA is calling the GTX 1060FE a "special limited edition" card, and though the company isn't commenting on the matter, I strongly suspect that the GTX 1060FE is a limited run that NVIDIA will only be selling for a couple of months or so. NVIDIA has done similar things in the past, though ultimately when they curtain production is entirely up to them. I do wonder how NVIIDA's partners feel about the company competing with them in the etail market, but with NVIDIA charging a significant $50/20% price premium, the partners have a lot of room to play with and improve on the NVIDIA reference design.

 

[Legend]

That seems pretty swifty!

[Mmm_fish_tacos]

That seems pretty swifty!

Yeah, its pretty much a 980 for $250. dang good deal.

[the-pi-guy]

Noice.  

[darkknightkryta]

I was waiting to update my rig with this, but with my lack of interest in 3rd party titles lately, I don't think I care enough to upgrade.

[Proxum]

Rocking a 4gb 960 here... this is really tempting...

[nnodley]

Really wanting to upgrade my rig and i'm either getting this or the 480 if I want to save money or possibly splurging and getting a 1070 or 1080.  Not sure yet.  Still need to save up some more money though, so it will be awhile.

[Proxum]

Really wanting to upgrade my rig and i'm either getting this or the 480 if I want to save money or possibly splurging and getting a 1070 or 1080.  Not sure yet.  Still need to save up some more money though, so it will be awhile.

What resolution are you planning on playing at? If you want 4k, remember the monitor cost, which is decently high and should fall over the next few years.

[Mmm_fish_tacos]

Really wanting to upgrade my rig and i'm either getting this or the 480 if I want to save money or possibly splurging and getting a 1070 or 1080.  Not sure yet.  Still need to save up some more money though, so it will be awhile.

I'm want to get the 1070, I have a 970 now. And I want to feel that the jump was worth it. But for others the 1060 is probably the best choice for Performance/price.

[nnodley]

I'm want to get the 1070, I have a 970 now. And I want to feel that the jump was worth it. But for others the 1060 is probably the best choice for Performance/price.

I'm still rocking a 680 from like 3 to 4 years ago.  Still holds up, but anything I get will be a very big jump for me.

What resolution are you planning on playing at? If you want 4k, remember the monitor cost, which is decently high and should fall over the next few years.

I won't be doing full 4k. I do have an ultra wide monitor which is like 2160X1080(?) I think. I'm mostly getting something upgraded from my GTX 680 to get faster hardware for my Unreal 4 environments I'm working on.

[Proxum]

I won't be doing full 4k. I do have an ultra wide monitor which is like 2160X1080(?) I think. I'm mostly getting something upgraded from my GTX 680 to get faster hardware for my Unreal 4 environments I'm working on.

I am not experienced in Unreal 4 so I wouldn't know that, but if the 680 holds up, the 1060 should be fine. I was assuming this was for gaming and that you possibly wanted to increase resolution, and if you are not going above 1080p for gaming, anything above a 1060 is complete overkill.

[Mmm_fish_tacos]

I am not experienced in Unreal 4 so I wouldn't know that, but if the 680 holds up, the 1060 should be fine. I was assuming this was for gaming and that you possibly wanted to increase resolution, and if you are not going above 1080p for gaming, anything above a 1060 is complete overkill.

Not if you're into vr. Even a small bump in in downsampling makes a noticeable difference.

[Proxum]

Not if you're into vr. Even a small bump in in downsampling makes a noticeable difference.

Touché sir

[nnodley]

I am not experienced in Unreal 4 so I wouldn't know that, but if the 680 holds up, the 1060 should be fine. I was assuming this was for gaming and that you possibly wanted to increase resolution, and if you are not going above 1080p for gaming, anything above a 1060 is complete overkill.

Yeah at this point I'm leaning towards 1060 or the 480 from AMD as they will give a considerable bump in power for working with higher res textures and more geometry and better effects at an amazing price.  Right now I can run a full populated jungle(without fine-tuned LOD's) with fully dynamic shadows at 30fps at 1080p on the 680.  The 1060 plus a much better CPU should get me up past 60fps. But I'm not gonna not consider a 1070 as I would like to go to 4k at some point.

[Mmm_fish_tacos]

Yeah at this point I'm leaning towards 1060 or the 480 from AMD as they will give a considerable bump in power for working with higher res textures and more geometry and better effects at an amazing price.  Right now I can run a full populated jungle(without fine-tuned LOD's) with fully dynamic shadows at 30fps at 1080p on the 680.  The 1060 plus a much better CPU should get me up past 60fps. But I'm not gonna not consider a 1070 as I would like to go to 4k at some point.

So 1060 to 1080ti?

1080ti shpuld run 4k 60 or really close to it.