The PCB of the GTX 1080, not the GTX 1050, is shown (Photo : YouTube / Actually Hardcore Overclocking)
NVIDIA's upcoming GTX 1060 has been spotted in a leaked photo that seems to be originating from the Capital Computer Centre in Hong Kong and it shows the many compromises including the plastic foundation.
The NVIDIA GTX 1080 and GTX 1070 may have taken the high-end market for video cards but the company still has no contender for the low to mid-range as AMD prepares to launch their Radeon RX 480, RX 470 and RX 460. Their answer could be the GTX 1060 which is expected to bring about the same performance of a GTX 980 but with a significantly cheaper price that is speculated at around $250.
No official confirmation has been revealed by NVIDIA yet but the GP106 chip has been spotted in shipping manifests according to the earlier reports. One of the rumored specs of the GTX 1060 is the 192-bit memory bus which is seen as one of the many compromises for a cheaper GPU, Videocardz has learned.
It seems peculiar that the leaked photo of the budget card, which was posted on Reddit, from the green company surfaces a day before AMD releases their reference RX 480 cards which will cost $199 for the 4GB and $229 for the 8GB model. Some are even saying that the image is photoshopped and was just posted to join in on the hype train for the Polaris 10 card launch.
Capital Computer Centre's response to the alleged GTX 1060 leaked photo is just a laughing emoji on their Facebook page, Digital Trends reported. They even posted an article with a caption that only says "lol."
The GP106 GPU is expected to have 6GB GDDR5 memory which is an odd choice considering that the RX 480 will have an 8GB model. Benchlife also reports that there will also be a 3GB variant of the card which is also weird considering that most of the cards today start at 4GB for the VRAM.
If the GTX 1060 leaked photo is indeed true, consumers could be looking at a plastic cooler without a heatsink window. It still has the same curvy design that the GTX 1080 and GTX 1070 has but it does not look shiny at all. NVIDIA will have to reveal the official price which is expected to be in the range of the RX 480 8GB model's $229.
