It appears that recent rumors about Nvidia pulling the GTX 1060 launch forward are pretty true as we now have a full leak regarding the specifications, including the fact that it will offer GTX 980 performance and be much faster than RX 480, at least according to Nvidia.

According to the leaked slide over at Videocardz.com, the upcoming Geforce GTX 1060 is based on Nvidia's GP106 GPU with 1280 CUDA cores, 6GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 8.0GHz and paired up with a 192-bit memory interface.

The GPU Boost clock is set at 1700MHz and although we do not have a base clock, the 120W TDP and the fact that it will provide maximum compute performance of around 4.4 TFLOPs, makes the GTX 1060 really interesting.

According to Nvidia, the GTX 1060 will offer "the power of GTX 980 for every gamer", which also suggest that it will be aggressively priced.

The set of leaked slides also include the performance and efficiency slide which claims that the the GTX 1060 is faster than RX 480 in both standard and VR performance as well as significantly more power efficient, which was obvious from the 120W TDP rating.

The earlier leaked picture also appears to be true and this is the new GTX 1060 Founders Edition but it is still not clear if Nvidia partners will be making custom GTX 1060 graphics cards from day one.

Bear in mind that the performance and efficiency slide starts at 0.8 so take these values with a grain of salt. We are not sure if Nvidia will be able to match the Radeon RX 480 price but the slide also mentions July as the launch date so the rumored July 7th launch date might be true.

The graphics card market is definitely heating up and we will soon see proper GPU wars between Nvidia and AMD so hopefully these will also drive the prices down.









Source: Videocardz.com.