Friday, July 1st 2016
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Reference Board Design and Clocks Confirmed
A leaked slide from NVIDIA press-deck for the imminent launch of the GeForce GTX 1060 confirmed the reference board design, which first surfaced in Hong Kong. The slide also reveals clock speeds, and other key specs of the card. While it doesn't reveal the GPU nominal clocks, it mentions that the GPU Boost frequency will be set as high as 1.70 GHz. The memory is clocked at 8 Gbps, which over the GPU's 192-bit GDDR5 interface, puts out 192 GB/s of memory bandwidth.
The chip features 1,280 CUDA cores based on the "Pascal" architecture. The card draws power from a single 6-pin PCIe power connector, its TDP is rated even lower than that of the AMD Radeon RX 480, at 120W (vs. 150W of the RX 480). NVIDIA has been making huge (and successful) performance claims for its "Pascal" GPUs so far. The GTX 1060 is claimed to be faster than the GeForce GTX 980 from the previous generation, and "much faster" than the RX 480, which means that NVIDIA intends to price this card competitively to the RX 480.
Source:
VideoCardz
The chip features 1,280 CUDA cores based on the "Pascal" architecture. The card draws power from a single 6-pin PCIe power connector, its TDP is rated even lower than that of the AMD Radeon RX 480, at 120W (vs. 150W of the RX 480). NVIDIA has been making huge (and successful) performance claims for its "Pascal" GPUs so far. The GTX 1060 is claimed to be faster than the GeForce GTX 980 from the previous generation, and "much faster" than the RX 480, which means that NVIDIA intends to price this card competitively to the RX 480.
117 Comments on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Reference Board Design and Clocks Confirmed
Which just proves that AMD's speciality is getting things wrong, particularly marketing wise; if your competitor is technically superior (and NVIDIA certainly is so) you should keep expectations low and try to surprise. AMD does otherwise: they create hype, fail to deliver and the green team just has to release sooner and/or lower prices.
But yeah, the GTX1060 will be overpriced because Nvidia can afford to be arrogant. Unfortunately.
if you dont like nvidias arrogance try supporting the other camp, companies understand only $ nothing else.
I've also taken the opportunity since Pascal first released to harp on the hubris and arrogance of the Green team and their overhyped prices. I practice equal opportunity bashing and praising.
we all know a case with an sli setup looks great
see the new leaked slide of videocardz, take it with an grain of salt.
The bigger problem for AMD is that GP106 will be smaller and cheaper to make than Polaris 10. It's also more power efficient, so Nvidia can create a wider selection of binnings out of the chip. So AMD can't push Nvidia on price without loosing more money. GP106 was taped out late last summer, so this is exactly right on track. It was supposed to be released before "back to school shopping", so this is exactly as expected.
Competition is good, but this is not an example of an effect from competition. The launch of new chips are pretty much predetermined nearly one year ahead, it can be postponed but it can't be pushed forward, that's technically impossible. Several chips of GP106 has been in QA for a couple of months*, which is the strongest sign of a pending release, so we knew the launch was imminent. The same goes for the hype about Vega, some fans are pretending it will be released 6 months ahead of schedule, which simply can't happen...
*) BTW, we also know a GP102-400 is in QA, so get ready for a new Titan soon.
I am better $300 for the 6gb version, but thats just a guess.
Its all official dude, no big conspiracy happening there