NVIDIA to Launch GeForce GTX 1060 Next Week

NVIDIA has reportedly pulled the performance-segment GeForce GTX 1060, a possible competitor for the recently launched AMD Radeon RX 480, from its earlier reported Fall-2016 launch to early July. The card is expected to be officially launched on the 7th of July, 2016. Market availability is expected to follow a week later, on 14th July. This will be the third desktop graphics card based on NVIDIA's "Pascal" architecture, following the GTX 1080 and the GTX 1070.The rumored (and derived) specifications of the GeForce GTX 1060 follow.

• GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060
• ASIC: GP106-400-A1 and GP106-300-A1
• 16 nm FinFET process
• 120W TDP
• 1,280 CUDA cores, spread across 10 streaming multiprocessors
• 80 TMUs, 48 ROPs
• 192-bit GDDR5 memory interface
• 3 GB and 6 GB variants
• Up to 1.70 GHz GPU Boost frequency
• 8 Gbps memory, 192 GB/s memory bandwidth