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
Oh and 1060 at $250, i would still prefer a 4GB RX 480.
Those 50 bucks translate in to $200.000 in my country
One last bit, wasn't GTX 960 MSRP $200? :rolleyes:
wakey wakey, how long you gonna put this bullshit up?
enough of "Special Ultra Limited Exclusive Premium Platinum" this already
As far as I'm concerned, if AIBs for the RX 480 can't come up with a decent 6-inch card and AIBs for the GTX 1060 have something close to it, you can bet that I'll be buying that 1060. I'm no Nvidia fanboy, nor am I an AMD fanboy. It doesn't matter if the RX 480 sticks to its pricing; it's the fastest card that AMD will have for the next little while, so if it's not versatile enough, it cannot compete. Dunno where AMD engineers got the idea that doing the same as Nvidia and milking the reference design is going to get them anywhere, they aren't Nvidia. They haven't been making profits. They need their AIB partners' designs.
Every time we go through this, people are hopeful that MSRP actually means something. I'm sure the joke is getting old. Wake up. You don't have to live in a country with a worthless currency like Canada to realize that MSRP is meaningless.
i literally posted yesterday that this card will sell for 300$.
i really hope we end up with a monopoly, i would like to see the faces of the moronic nvidia apologists then.
ps. @btarunr you should change the headline or clarify it mate.
Well played sir.
So, no, let's not hope for a monopoly because as much as fanboys are assholes, we need both assholes in this fight.
gtx460 $229
gtx560 $199
gtx660 $229
gtx760 $249
gtx960 $199
It's back to higher side again. Don't know if it affects to gtx 1060 prices, but unlike gtx1070 or gtx1080, gtx 1060 FE is only available from nvidia own webshop. Maybe there's even different reference pcb with normal 6-pin pcie connector.
that doesnt mean that i would like it, but their faces... oh that would be priceless!!no mate, price isnt the problem, the problem are people that like getting raped by nvidia just to have the bragging rights of the fancier epenis.. the problem are people that will buy the 1060 even though the 480 is already an overkill for 1080p, but they will buy it anyway, even though it is more expensive. at 300 its ridiculous actually. also hell would freeze before nvidia would sell any x80 card for 250$.
ps. it was a hypothetical scenario. even if amd fails it will be bought by someone and it will continue to exist.
But for the most part the X6 nvidia cards have pretty much been 200$ msrp since the 6600gt. bumping to 250$ alone is an oddity, though not an unprecedented one. But with the current FE price becoming the norm, 300$ for one of these cards is an unwelcome change. You would expect the ti to perhaps be up there. Also all those cards starting from the 6600gt included sli support, making it much easier to add performance later without breaking the bank or changing chipsets. To lose it here sucks the most.
There really is no problem if people choose to buy a 1060 over the RX480 because it's a free market, no one is forced to buy anything.
videocardz.com/61957/nvidia-unveils-the-geforce-gtx-1060
AIB's might look much better to me but i think the RX480 is a true winner once the AIB's get the cards out.Better performance ?, did i miss the reviews ?.
Better performance per $ huh ?, some 60$ more than the 480
Better efficiency yes but for the time i would use the card be better of keeping my 60$ savings.
Lower power draw ?, so they so and even if it were you would be about $60 better of with a RX480 with a mere 30w more which would take years to add up to any thing much.
Overclocking headroom ?, again did i miss a trust worthy review ?. i probably did though as i cannot say i been looking.