Thursday, July 7th 2016
NVIDIA Announces the GeForce GTX 1060, 6 GB GDDR5, $249
NVIDIA today announced its third desktop consumer graphics card based on the "Pascal" architecture, the GeForce GTX 1060. NVIDIA aims to strike a price-performance sweetspot, by pricing this card aggressively at US $249 (MSRP), with its reference "Founders Edition" variant priced at $299. To make sure two of these cards at $500 don't cannibalize the $599-699 GTX 1080, NVIDIA didn't even give this card 2-way SLI support. Retail availability of the cards will commence from 19th July, 2016. NVIDIA claims that the GTX 1060 performs on-par with the GeForce GTX 980 from the previous generation.
The GeForce GTX 1060 is based on the new 16 nm "GP106" silicon, the company's third ASIC based on this architecture after GP100 and GP104. It features 1,280 CUDA cores spread across ten streaming multiprocessors, 80 TMUs, 48 ROPs, and a 192-bit wide GDDR5 memory interface, holding 6 GB of memory. The card draws power from a single 6-pin PCIe power connector, as the GPU's TDP is rated at just 120W. The core is clocked up to 1.70 GHz, and the memory at 8 Gbps, at which it belts out 192 GB/s of memory bandwidth. Display outputs include three DisplayPorts 1.4, one HDMI 2.0b, and a DVI.
The GeForce GTX 1060 is based on the new 16 nm "GP106" silicon, the company's third ASIC based on this architecture after GP100 and GP104. It features 1,280 CUDA cores spread across ten streaming multiprocessors, 80 TMUs, 48 ROPs, and a 192-bit wide GDDR5 memory interface, holding 6 GB of memory. The card draws power from a single 6-pin PCIe power connector, as the GPU's TDP is rated at just 120W. The core is clocked up to 1.70 GHz, and the memory at 8 Gbps, at which it belts out 192 GB/s of memory bandwidth. Display outputs include three DisplayPorts 1.4, one HDMI 2.0b, and a DVI.
182 Comments on NVIDIA Announces the GeForce GTX 1060, 6 GB GDDR5, $249
SLI isn't a concern for many. Moving forward is a DX12 multi GPU environment with MS recent announcement. Crossfire and SLI will lose relevance once DX12 gets hold. That aside, I guess it's a personal thing - I left dual cards after 5850's, 7970's and finally 780ti's. I know there are plenty of people that would rather pay for a 1070 than 2 of these.
One thing that will draw equal praise an ire is the power draw. If the 1060 is frugal with power it will go into more OEM's because of it. When I had 5850's, the power draw of Fermi was always being laughed at. Now of course, things are very different, power draw isn't relevant.....
There is also an argument of buying 2nd 1060 later to SLI but there are issues to that also.
But I think its good for nvidia to not give SLI feature for 1060, its not just keep their higher product market being taken but also to make the market healthy. So for those who wants multi gpu can run for AMD 480 and those who needs only single gpu can put 1060 on the list
Meh, guess we will just have to see. Hopefully they AIB's make some of those "Cheaper" plastic blowers available soon for those wanting the cheaper end of the spectrum.
There is absolutely no reason to SLi 2x GTX 1060 to do what, end up slower than GTX 1080 unless SLI scaling is 100%?
And the cycle continues.
1) Isn't even reviewed yet
2) We don't know its availability when it is to be sold
3) It will be sold $50 over the normal price for weeks
4) It forbids SLI
5) It will be more expensive in its stock form than oced and much better cooled custom RX480s
Only fanboys.
That opinion might change if and when it will be widely available in big quantities for $249 and if proved to be over 10% average (W1z's review %) faster than ref RX480 at 1080P which is the resotution it matters to this sale price lvl buyers more than any other.
You absolutely can buy a GTX 1080 now, and when GTX 1060s are available.
See the difference?
and there is no way 3rd party card which offer overclocking out of card will set in Nvidia MRSP
thats two points above somehow dont make any sense to Perf/Dollar that you claimed better than RX 480
mind to elaborate your calculation?
Its going to be a good card, but once we have reviews actually placing it 10% above (If that's where it lands) then we can judge the pricing for ourselves. The dual MSRP thing will hold it back, but I will bet it will get close to the lower MSRP with some of the plastic edition coolers like on the 1070 and 1080.
I reckon we'll see a 256bit 8GB 1060 Ti sooner or later, considering those empty memory spots. The board's PCB is the shortest I've ever seen, which means cooling might be a problem, but also that some enterprising AIBs might design and release a half-height version. GTX 980 performance in a HTPC, yes please!
I don't think we'll see GTX 1060 at $249 now, but if NVIDIA decide to release a Ti version, it'll be a different story.
sure if you ignore the 4GB 480 and ONLY compare to the 8GB variant and you can somehow find one at the 249$ price...then it will have better performance per dollar... but ignoring the 199$ 4GB variant is stupid and you won't find a 249$ 1060 for some time.
so I'm a go with completely false that the 1060 will have better performance per dollar at launch than the 480.
should still be a decent card, lack of sli hurts a bit though.