NVIDIA has recently revealed their new GTX 1060 video card powered by the Pascal GPU as it takes on the Radeon RX 480 with the performance of a GTX 980.
The GTX 980 was one of the top video cards last year. NVIDIA has recently slashed $100 off of the price tag of the card as preparation for the upcoming GTX 1060 which will cost $249.
AMD has taken the spotlight in the low to mid-end market with their RX 480 and the subsequent RX 470 plus RX 460 cards. However, NVIDIA has unveiled the GTX 1060 which will take on the Polaris cards.
One caveat about the GTX 1060 card is that it will not feature SLI support as NVIDIA pushes their focus on SLI for the higher-end GTX 1070 and GTX 1080, WCCFTech has learned. Users can still use multiple GTX 1060 cards through LDA or MDA mode but only in certain applications that support DirectX 12 which means that it's pretty much a moot point to own several GTX 1060 cards.
The GTX 1060 will have 1280 CUDA cores down from the GTX 1080's 2560. It will have a base clock of 1506MHz and a boost clock that makes it reach up to 1708MHz.
Factory overclocked cards are already expected from ASUS, Inno3D and Gigabyte which has revealed their lineup for the GTX 1060. Unfortunately, there is no GTX 1060 release date yet for the custom AIB cards.
NVIDIA is set to launch the GTX 1060 Founders Edition on July 13. It will cost $249 for the MSRP and $299 for the Founders Edition while the GTX 1060 FE will cost £275 in the United Kingdom, Kitguru reported.
The FP32 Compute power of the GP106 GPU I rated at 4.4TFLOPs which is almost half of the GTX 1080. This could mean that it can still dish out good performance VR but not as good as its bigger brothers.
NVIDIA's GTX 1060 has also been reported to reach 2GHz when overclocked which would put the RX 480 to shame as it cannot even reach the same milestone even with its 8GB model. Team Green might win this round again with their new card but benchmark results are still anticipated.