As expected and announced earlier, Nvidia has now officially launched its third Pascal-based Geforce graphics card, the mainstream Geforce GTX 1060.

Based on Nvidia's 16nm GP106 GPU, the Geforce GTX 1060 comes with 1280 CUDA cores, 80 TMUs and 48 ROPs and will ship with 6GB of GDDR5 memory paried up with a 192-bit memory interface. The reference, or as Nvidia now likes to call it, the Founders Edition, will work at 1506MHz for the GPU base and 1709MHz for the GPU Boost clocks while memory will work at 8000MHz, adding up to 192GB/s of memory bandwidth.




As it was the case with previous Pascal-based graphics cards, the Geforce GTX 1060 is also very power efficient so it has a 120W TDP and draws power from a single 6-pin PCIe power connector, which leaves a lot room for custom and factory-overclock versions.

Nvidia targets 1080p and 1440p gamers with its new Geforce GTX 1060 and although it was scheduled to launch sometime in October, the recent launch of the AMD Radeon RX 480 pushed Nvidia to pull the launch forward and it appears that it will offer some decent competition.

According to some of the first reviews, the Geforce GTX 1060 offers performance similar to the Geforce GTX 980, beating Radeon RX 480 in most scenarios.

Featuring a US $249 MSRP for upcoming custom and US $299 for the Founders Edition, the Geforce GTX 1060 offers good performance per buck, especially since it has impressive power efficiency.

Now that AMD has some competition in that market segment, prices should settle and hopefully we will see some price wars which will drop those prices even further.



Source: Nvidia.com.