Inno3D has confirmed and teased the performance of the NVIDIA GTX 1060 video card which is shown to be somewhere in between the GTX 980 and the GTX 970.
After unveiling the GTX 1080 and the GTX 1070, NVIDIA has another trick up their sleeve. The GTX 1060 could be the ultimate budget video card for customers who just want to spend $250 for a GPU upgrade.
The new Pascal architecture has made it possible for the company to leap two generations ahead of the previous video cards. Cheaper prices and more processing power are the result of the new architecture.
Inno3D has posted a chart showing the transition of the previous generation to the new Pascal GPUs. It teased the GTX 10XX which is expected to be the GTX 1060 to be the equivalent of the performance between the GTX 980 and the GTX 970, HEXUS has learned.
The mentioned video cards currently cost $300 upwards but they now underperform the new GPUs from NVIDIA. AMD will have to make their Polaris 10 and Polaris 11 Radeon video cards better at the mid-range market if they want to increase their share of users.
NVIDIA's GTX 1060 would still be able to provide 60 frames per second on the standard 1080p resolution, TCC reported. The lower-tiered video card is powered by the Pascal GP106 GPU and has at least 1280 CUDA cores which is also less than what the GTX 1070 and the GTX 1080 have.
The card could also feature at least a 4GB 256-bit GDDR5 VRAM and can go as high as 8GB. However, it could also stay at 6GB considering that the higher-tiered video cards have 8GB and up.
AMD's Polaris 10 and 11 GPUs for the Radeon 480 series will be going toe to toe with the new video cards. The company has already confirmed that they will be taking the battle to the mid-range market.
NVIDIA will still have to unveil the official specs of the GTX 1060. The sub $250 video card is expected to perform somewhere between the GTX 980 and the GTX 970 from the previous generation.