Hardware & Technical Nvidia GTX 1060 confirmed

Insomnia

Insomnia
What a time to be alive!
Nvidia has just confirmed the GTX 1060 as a response to AMDs RX480.

The GTX 1060 is about a 980 performance wise, and cost around $249 MSRP while the limited edition of the Founders Edition will cost $299.

From Nvidias website:

GPU Engine Specs:
1280 NVIDIA CUDA® Cores
1506 Base Clock (MHz)
1708 Boost Clock (MHz)

Memory Specs:
8 Gbps Memory Speed
6 GB GDDR5 Standard Memory Config
192-bit Memory Interface Width
192 Memory Bandwidth (GB/sec)

Thermals:
120w TDP
400w Recommended System Power


Copied from Gamer's Nexus website. Hopefully it will turn up right here.
NVIDIA Pascal vs. Maxwell Specs Comparison
GTX 1080GTX 1070GTX 1060GTX 980 TiGTX 980GTX 960
GPUGP104-400 PascalGP104-200 PascalGP106 PascalGM200 MaxwellGM204 MaxwellGM204
Transistor Count7.2B7.2B4.4B8B5.2B2.94B
Fab Process16nm FinFET16nm FinFET16nm FinFET28nm28nm28nm
CUDA Cores256019201280281620481024
GPCs432642
SMs20151022168
TPCs201510---
TMUs1601208017612864
ROPs646448966432
Core Clock1607MHz1506MHz1506MHz1000MHz1126MHz1126MHz
Boost Clock1733MHz1683MHz1708MHz1075MHz1216MHz1178MHz
FP32 TFLOPs9TFLOPs6.5TFLOPs3.85TFLOPs5.63TFLOPs5TFLOPs2.4TFLOPs
Memory TypeGDDR5XGDDR5GDDR5GDDR5GDDR5GDDR5
Memory Capacity8GB8GB6GB6GB4GB2GB, 4GB
Memory Clock10Gbps GDDR5X4006MHz8Gbps7Gbps GDDR57Gbps GDDR57Gbps
Memory Interface256-bit256-bit192-bit384-bit256-bit128-bit
Memory Bandwidth320.32GB/s256GB/s192GB/s336GB/s224GB/s115GB/s
TDP180W150W120W250W165W120W
Power Connectors1x 8-pin1x 8-pin1x 6-pin1x 8-pin
1x 6-pin		2x 6-pin1x 6-pin
Release Date5/27/20166/10/20167/19/20166/01/20159/18/201401/22/15
Release PriceReference: $700
MSRP: $600		Reference: $450
MSRP: $380		Reference: $300
MSRP: $250		$650$550$200
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RhymeRhyme

RhymeRhyme
Totally don't care. I just get an 1080! Phat! Not going for less as my Rift will be shipped within the next couple of days. Wieeeeeeeeeehaaaaaaaaaaaaa! [yesnod][big grin][haha]:O:cool::D
 
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This announcement has made my upgrade path options more interesting... And hopefully, cheaper.
 

Insomnia

Insomnia
winterknight said:
Looks like the 1060 is going to have to be my choice, it looks like the 1070/80 prices will rise in the UK because of Brexit.
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In Sweden, the 1080 cost around 900 dollars, 1070 is around 550 dollars, RX480 cost between 300 and 400 dollars and the 1060 will most likely be about 400 dollars.
I hate my country. :'(

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A rumour about the 1060 goes around the Web saying it can be over clocked to just over 2 ghz. Insane.
 
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Porina

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In CUDA cores, the 1060 looks like half a 1080, although we have to wait for final specs to know how many graphical units they put in. I was considering a 1070 for my dedicated VR rig which has stolen the 980 Ti from my main box for now, but the 1060 could be interesting depending on real world pricing and VR performance. Basically if it can match a 980Ti in VR, it'll do me.
 

Insomnia

Insomnia
Porina said:
In CUDA cores, the 1060 looks like half a 1080, although we have to wait for final specs to know how many graphical units they put in. I was considering a 1070 for my dedicated VR rig which has stolen the 980 Ti from my main box for now, but the 1060 could be interesting depending on real world pricing and VR performance. Basically if it can match a 980Ti in VR, it'll do me.
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Yeah and the 960 had half the CUDA Cores as the 980 had. The 2gb on the 960 crippled the card though, so seeing Nvidia added 6gb on the 1060 is very pleasing. I'm still going for the 1070 but it'll be very exciting to see how this will go with the RX480 as the closest competitor.
 

MickyG1982

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It's definitely something I'm looking forward to! I have very few complaints about my GTX 960, but the 1060 will simply blow that (and 980's) out of the water.

I may have to build a new mid range gaming rig just for it simply because my AMD 860k already bottlenecks the 960! It'll roll over and die if I put this in it...
 

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MickyG1982 said:
It's definitely something I'm looking forward to! I have very few complaints about my GTX 960, but the 1060 will simply blow that (and 980's) out of the water.

I may have to build a new mid range gaming rig just for it simply because my AMD 860k already bottlenecks the 960! It'll roll over and die if I put this in it...
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Mate I'm in exactly the same boat as you. I'm running a GTX 960 4GB right now, but it's really starting to look like the 1060 is a no-brainer of an upgrade.

I love my 960, I really do, and it's in great condition: It will be available as a spare, so I won't consider it a waste at all. But, what the 1060 is promising, and at the projected price... Well obviously you know why it appeals to me. Looking forward to getting feedback on it from the wild.

Well, I say I'm in the same boat... I won't need to build a whole new rig as my hardware is far from bottle-necking my GPU, but I digress. :)
 

FuzzySpider

FuzzySpider
Porina said:
In CUDA cores, the 1060 looks like half a 1080, although we have to wait for final specs to know how many graphical units they put in. I was considering a 1070 for my dedicated VR rig which has stolen the 980 Ti from my main box for now, but the 1060 could be interesting depending on real world pricing and VR performance. Basically if it can match a 980Ti in VR, it'll do me.
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I'm interested in getting this for VR as well, possibly replacing my 980 Ti.

http://www.game-debate.com/gpu/inde...-1060-vs-geforce-gtx-980-ti-zotac-6gb-edition

I can't make head nor tail of this stuff though. Can anyone who knows something do a comparison here?
 

MickyG1982

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FuzzySpider said:
I'm interested in getting this for VR as well, possibly replacing my 980 Ti.

http://www.game-debate.com/gpu/inde...-1060-vs-geforce-gtx-980-ti-zotac-6gb-edition

I can't make head nor tail of this stuff though. Can anyone who knows something do a comparison here?
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For you there wouldn't be much point in changing to a 1060, it offers more or less the same level of performance as your current card. The 1060 also doesn't offer SLI like your current card does so you'd also be losing out on that.

In fact, the only advantage would be that the 1060 has better support for DX12 than the 980. This will give you a better performance boost for games that use it, but not enough of one to be a worthwhile upgrade.

In short, if you wait a bit, then you should be able to pick up another 980 ti for cheap and run it in SLI or go for a 1070 / 1080.
 

Insomnia

Insomnia
FuzzySpider said:
I'm interested in getting this for VR as well, possibly replacing my 980 Ti.

http://www.game-debate.com/gpu/inde...-1060-vs-geforce-gtx-980-ti-zotac-6gb-edition

I can't make head nor tail of this stuff though. Can anyone who knows something do a comparison here?
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The 1060 offers 980 performance. Not 980ti perf... The 1070 offers 980ti perf. So your only option would be the 1080 as it's 20% faster than the Titan X/980ti.

However, the Single pass stereo feature the Pascal chip comes with could improve VR performance by a whole lot. But it's a technique that needs to be implemented by the developers.
 

MickyG1982

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Insomnia said:
The 1060 offers 980 performance. Not 980ti perf... The 1070 offers 980ti perf. So your only option would be the 1080 as it's 20% faster than the Titan X/980ti.

However, the Single pass stereo feature the Pascal chip comes with could improve VR performance by a whole lot. But it's a technique that needs to be implemented by the developers.
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The 1070 beats the both the 980Ti and Titan X by roughly 10% in terms of frame rates. Still possibly not worth the upgrade, but definitely a more powerful card.
 

Porina

Porina
VR is simply too new. 3DMark hasn't released their VR benchmark yet. The SteamVR one everyone knows has its limitations, in particular the 980ti already is enough to max it so we can't easily compare above that. Nvidia used one I hadn't heard of before in their 1060 announcement material. Websites doing real world testing in games are still evolving.
 

Deleted member 110222

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I think I'm now settled on wanting to go for a 1060. It looks like the price/performance value it will offer will be awesome, and because of this, very attractive to me.

I did think the 1070 was an okay price, but now? No, to me the 1060 looks like it will be the real bargain of the century.
 

MickyG1982

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Suspicious, but as the card hasn't even been released for review yet, and driver support (even beta) isn't out I'd be wary of such evidence.
 
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