Thursday, July 7th 2016
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Founders Edition PCB Pictured
Here's one of the first pictures of the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Founders Edition (reference) PCB. The PCB is about 2/3rds the length of the actual card, and despite that, it's pretty barren. Power is drawn from a 6-pin PCIe power connector, however, this connector isn't on the PCB, but is on a receptacle towards the end of the cooler. NVIDIA designed this in response to complaints that on cards with PCB shorter than the cooler, the power connector would be in the middle of the card. It would also block the illuminated GeForce GTX logo along the top.
The 6-pin PCIe power receptacle connects to the card at big solder points. This approach has one downside. If you want to change the cooler (to, say, an aftermarket air cooler), you will have to deal with that ugly cabling. The card uses a simple 3+1 phase VRM to power the GPU, with its TDP rated at just 120W. The GP106 GPU is neighbored by six 8 Gbps GDDR5 memory chips populating its 192-bit memory bus. There's no SLI support. Display outputs include three DisplayPort 1.4, and one each of HDMI 2.0b and DVI.
The 6-pin PCIe power receptacle connects to the card at big solder points. This approach has one downside. If you want to change the cooler (to, say, an aftermarket air cooler), you will have to deal with that ugly cabling. The card uses a simple 3+1 phase VRM to power the GPU, with its TDP rated at just 120W. The GP106 GPU is neighbored by six 8 Gbps GDDR5 memory chips populating its 192-bit memory bus. There's no SLI support. Display outputs include three DisplayPort 1.4, and one each of HDMI 2.0b and DVI.
67 Comments on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Founders Edition PCB Pictured
Those wires. What is seen cannot be unseen.
My guess is that they didn't want the VRMs too get too hot so they spread the load over more phases.
This is the Full chip. Remember GTX960 1024/128b was like 57% the size of GTX 980 2048/256b. And 1060 is 60% the size of 1080 and it even has 192 bits..
The 1060Ti was meant to be based on GP104-150 (if it exists) a cut down. But it could be next month or 2017/q1.
The rx480 has a bigger die. I highly suspect the 480 is a fully enabled polaris 10 chip, i wonder if it has more CUs or if it has 8jaguar cores included to be sold as a console apu.
and why cant this card be a single slot one too? dang it.
and those power connections, they could have at least included a couple of mounting poles...
you are a sheep it seems no offence.
now say it...you don't like the overhanging cooler....thats more like it
and psssttt 480 has one too
This one is designed to use the same amount of power as a GTX 960, an efficient little card that always did well:
Reminds me about my friend's Asus V9999 (GF 6800) AGP, it had its power connector rotated 90° from reference, so it prevented plugging the molex connector when using NV Silencer 5. Well, he soldered the connector to the other side on the card with wires which he cut from an old PSU. :rockout:
The MacGyvered power connector is the only stupid thing in this reference card IMO.
As to the over hanging fan... would you think of asking $300 for something that looks like this? Well like this without SLI.