More and more rumors on the GeForce GTX 1060 being released are hitting the web, including specifications. Earlier on a GeForce GTX 1060 already had been photographed on a Hong Kong market.
The card on the photo seems to be a GeForce GTX 1060 reference-design, the graphics kinda resemble the GeForce GTX 1080/1070 style. That card also seems a bit shorter than usual. It was spotted and bought at this retailer.
Word out on the street (reddit) is that the card sold for roughly 299 USD but who knows, it could be a 249 USD product. However new info arrived on the web, the 1060 is now expected to be launched on the 7th of July, 2016. Actual availability is expected to follow a week later, on 14th July. That's way ahead of schedule as the 1060 was expected to launch later in the Summer of 2016. Here are the rumored specifications of the GeForce GTX 1060 as posted on Benchlife.info, the source for this information.
- GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060
- ASIC: GP106-400-A1 and GP106-300-A1
- 16 nm FinFET process
- 120W TDP
- 1280 CUDA cores, spread across 10 streaming multiprocessors
- 80 TMUs and 48 ROP units
- 192-bit GDDR5 memory interface
- 6 GB and 3 GB models
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reference GeForce | GTX 1080 | GTX 1070 | GTX 1060 | GTX 980 Ti | GTX 980 |
| GPU | GP104-400-A1 | GP104-200-A1 | GP106-400-A1 | GM200 | GM204 |
| Architecture | Pascal | Pascal | Pascal | Maxwell | Maxwell |
| Transistor count | 7.2 Billion | 7.2 Billion | - | 8 Billion | 5.2 Billion |
| Fabrication Node | TSMC 16 nm | TSMC 16 nm | TSMC 16 nm | TSMC 28 nm | TSMC 28 nm |
| CUDA Cores | 2,560 | 1,920 | 1,280 | 2,816 | 2,048 |
| SMMs / SMXs | 20 | 15 | 10 | 22 | 16 |
| ROPs | 64 | 64 | 48 | 96 | 64 |
| GPU Clock Core | 1,607 MHz | 1,506 MHz | TBA | 1,002 MHz | 1,127 MHz |
| GPU Boost clock | 1,733 MHz | 1,683 MHz | TBA | 1,076 MHz | 1,216 MHz |
| Memory Clock | 1,250 MHz | 2,000 MHz | TBA | 1,753 MHz | 1,753 MHz |
| Memory Size | 8 GB | 8 GB | 6 GB / 3 GB | 6 GB | 4 GB |
| Memory Bus | 256-bit | 256-bit | 192-bit | 384-bit | 256-bit |
| Memory Bandwidth | 320 GB/s | 256 GB/s | 192 GB/s | 337 GB/s | 224 GB/s |
| FP Performance | 9.0 TFLOPS | 6.45 TFLOPS | TBA | 6.4 TFLOPS | 4.61 TFLOPS |
| GPU Thermal Threshold | 94 Degrees C | 94 Degrees C | 94 Degrees C | 91 Degrees C | 95 Degrees C |
| TDP | 180 Watts | 150 Watts | 120 Watts | 250 Watts | 165 Watts |
| Launch MSRP ref | $599/$699 | $379/$449 | TBA | $699 | $549 |
This will be the third desktop graphics card based on NVIDIA's "Pascal" architecture, following the GTX 1080 and the GTX 1070. It should perform at the level or above the competing Radeon RX 480 released this week.
