Here’s what Nvidia’s Bryan Del Rizzo said when I asked him about it:
If the $2 indeed out performs the GTX 980, you’d be able to pick up a pair of them for just $500-instantly undercutting the GTX 1080’s market position despite the questionable future of multi-GPU support in games. Dual GTX 980s outpunch the $600-plus GeForce GTX 1080. That probably has less to do with Nvidia’s tightening of the multi-GPU belt than sheer economics. What’s important here is what you don’t see.īut more crucially, there aren’t any connectors for Nvidia’s fancy new SLI bridge on the GTX 1060. That may make aftermarket water cooling tricky. Interestingly enough, Nvidia still slapped the 6-pin power connector on the end of the card’s edge, and not on the PCB itself. The final quarter of the card is pure fan and shroud-almost. The GTX 1060 supports the same new bells and whistles as the higher-priced cards, including enhanced asynchronous compute features, simultaneous multi-projection, and the killer-looking Ansel 3D screenshot tool, which I personally can’t wait to try out as an enthusiastic Dead End Thrills-wannabe.Īlso like the Radeon RX 480, the GTX 1060’s a full-length dual-slot graphics card despite its shrunken PCB. While AMD’s 150-watt RX 480 essentially equaled the older GTX 970 in both performance and power draw-and pulled an excessive amount of juice from the motherboard to do so-the GTX 1060 sips a mere 120W over a single 6-pin power connection. Nvidia’s also maintaining its efficiency lead with the GTX 1060. Nvidia’s new card sports the same HDMI 2.0b port and trio of DisplayPort 1.4 connections as the other GTX 10-series GPUs to ensure compatibility with VR headsets and ultra-high resolutions alike, along with a DVI-D ( not DVI-I) port for lower cost displays. While the GTX 1060 doesn’t utilize the cutting-edge GDDR5X found in the GTX 1080 (which costs $600), the card features 6GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 8Gbps. Much like AMD’s RX 480, the GTX 1060 can power the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive headsets despite its relatively low cost, and Nvidia loaded the card with memory to help maintain smooth frame rates in both virtual reality and demanding games played at 2560×1440 resolution. Brad ChacosĬlick on any image in this article to enlarge it. It packs 1280 CUDA cores-down from the GTX 1070’s 1920-and builds upon the same engineering tricks that lets its bigger cousins hit insane clock speeds, boosting up to 1.7GHz when extra oomph is required. Nvidia’s new 16nm Pascal-based GP106 graphics processor beats in the heart of the GeForce GTX 1060.
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