NVIDIA has not said anything about the GTX 1060 yet but the specs and photos have already leaked throughout the Internet with some rumors that review units have already been sent out to publications.
Earlier reports have shown the leaked GTX 1060 specs which show 1280 CUDA cores with the same GDDR5 memory NVIDIA uses on the GTX 1070. There are reportedly two variants that will be released: one with a measly 3GB GDDR5 memory and one with 6GB GDDR5.
The leaked slides of the new Pascal budget card show that it could just be a significantly cheaper GTX 980 card. Performance-wise, there are no benchmarks revealed yet but the card is expected to top the new AMD Radeon RX 480 that was just released on June 29.
One Korean retailer has also listed the GTX 1060 in the promotion for their Overwatch bundle that will end on August 31 which suggests that the card may release by then, Mobipicker has learned. There are also other foreign publications that claim they already have a review sample for the GTX 1060 and that their articles could be launched soon.
The GTX 1060 TDP is only 120W which is significantly lower than the RX 480's 150W, which is also having problems with its power draw right now. Besides the specs, there are also more leaked GTX 1060 photos coming from PurePC.
Leaked photos of the GTX 1060 from PurePC show that it has three Display Port 1.4 connectors, a single DVI port and one HDMI 2.0b port. The GTX 1060 would require a single six-pin connector as well for the power as shown in the images, WCCFTech reported.
Hopefully, there would also be the LED light for the Geforce GTX name on the side of the GTX 1060 card. Some fans are confused as to how the card will be priced now that AMD has released their RX 480.
NVIDIA is expected to reveal the GTX 1060 specs, price and features on July 7. The estimated price for the budget Pascal card is $250 for the 6GB GDDR5 variant which is still more expensive than the RX 480 which has 8GB in VRAM.