It appears that earlier rumors were a bit off as although Nvidia has now officially announced the new Geforce GTX 1060, we won't see any official reviews until July 19th, when the card is also scheduled for retail availability.

Based on the 16nm GP106 Pascal GPU, the Geforce GTX 1060 will pack 1280 CUDA cores, 80 TMUs, 48 ROPs and come with 6GB of GDDR5 memory on a 192-bit memory interface. It needs a single 6-pin PCIe power connector and has a TDP rating of 120W.

The details from leaked review notes suggest that the GPU is clocked at up to 1.7GHz for the GPU Boost but can go as high as 2.0GHz under overclock, which is an impressive result. The 6GB of GDDR5 memory will work at 2000MHz (8.0GHz effective), which adds up to 192GB/s of total memory bandwidth.

There will be no support for SLI as two of these could end up close to the GTX 1080, thus hurting Nvidia in the high-end market. The Geforce GTX 1060 features three DisplayPort 1.4, one HDMI 2.0b and one DVI display output. It is left to be seen if the GTX 1060 will have the same problems with HTC Vive on its DisplayPort outputs.

According to Nvidia, the Geforce GTX 1060 is on average 15 percent faster and over 75 percent more power efficient than the closest competitive product, which, if right, puts Radeon RX 480 in a lot of trouble.

As noted, select review sites have just got the new GTX 1060 and should have plenty of time to bring reviews on July 19th, when the graphics card is also scheduled to appear in retail/e-tail.









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