GeForce GTX 1060 Launch Imminent + Leaked Specs

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

 

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.