Wednesday, July 6th 2016
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3DMark Firestrike Performance Revealed
A Chinese PC bulletin board member with access to a GeForce GTX 1060 sample, put it through 3DMark Firestrike (standard) and 3DMark Firestrike Ultra. The card was tested on a machine powered by a Core i7-6700K processor. The screenshots, particularly the GPU-Z screenshot, reveals something fascinating. It looks like the rumors of NVIDIA launching two distinct SKUs of the GTX 1060 could be true. The driver is reporting the GPU name as "GeForce GTX 1060 6GB." Mentioning memory amount in the name string is unusual for NVIDIA, in this case, it could point to the possibility of a 6 GB SKU, and another with 3 GB memory.
Moving on to the business end of the story, the card's 3DMark Firestrike scores are 11,225 points for the standard test, and 3,014 points for Firestrike Ultra. This isn't significantly faster than the Radeon RX 480 8 GB. Here are some 3DMark Firestrike numbers for the RX 480. NVIDIA is expected to launch the GeForce GTX 1060 later this month.
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Moving on to the business end of the story, the card's 3DMark Firestrike scores are 11,225 points for the standard test, and 3,014 points for Firestrike Ultra. This isn't significantly faster than the Radeon RX 480 8 GB. Here are some 3DMark Firestrike numbers for the RX 480. NVIDIA is expected to launch the GeForce GTX 1060 later this month.
44 Comments on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3DMark Firestrike Performance Revealed
Isn't suppose to replace 980 4GB while offering less ram in one variant. :confused:
On an unrelated note, apparently Nvidia have an issue with HTC's Vive headset. The reference cards (1080, 1070 and I guess this) don't have enough HDMI to cover headset use if the HDMI is used to link to the TV. Whoops.
www.tomshardware.co.uk/nvidia-vive-displayport-incompatible,news-53397.html
And with the supposedly improved memory compression, yes, a 3GB VRAM card could replace a 4GB one (edit: it's bit of a stretch, but technically possible).
because of Damage control
nice 1
It should give good performance @1440p for most current titles. If they can price it at $249 (for 6GB Model), it will sell like hot cakes.
Im interested in this. I have loose parts that need a GPU. I had planned on it being the RX480, and Id love to give AMD some money, but they just keep coming up short.
Though figure if we say this GP106 is half the size of a GP104 that's 157nm die, say half the transistors that's 3.6m. Though you're still working all such internal parts nearly as hard if clocked the same, while the area is less. As the die's shrink it harder to get enough surface and contact to effectively have ability to draw heat off fast enough.
As to price, that means 32% smaller part, with 37% less transistors and 25% less memory on a less costly PCB (128-Bit) less requirement in the power section. So a $250 price on a 6Gb would seem like an exorbitant margin. Especially given AMD is not near working on the same mark-up. I suppose an unknown is what TSMC is charging now vs. what AMD has to pays GloFlo, which might be significantly less.
isnt it sad though that nvidia could actually do that?..