Friday, July 1st 2016
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Reference Board Design and Clocks Confirmed
A leaked slide from NVIDIA press-deck for the imminent launch of the GeForce GTX 1060 confirmed the reference board design, which first surfaced in Hong Kong. The slide also reveals clock speeds, and other key specs of the card. While it doesn't reveal the GPU nominal clocks, it mentions that the GPU Boost frequency will be set as high as 1.70 GHz. The memory is clocked at 8 Gbps, which over the GPU's 192-bit GDDR5 interface, puts out 192 GB/s of memory bandwidth.
The chip features 1,280 CUDA cores based on the "Pascal" architecture. The card draws power from a single 6-pin PCIe power connector, its TDP is rated even lower than that of the AMD Radeon RX 480, at 120W (vs. 150W of the RX 480). NVIDIA has been making huge (and successful) performance claims for its "Pascal" GPUs so far. The GTX 1060 is claimed to be faster than the GeForce GTX 980 from the previous generation, and "much faster" than the RX 480, which means that NVIDIA intends to price this card competitively to the RX 480.
Source:
VideoCardz
The chip features 1,280 CUDA cores based on the "Pascal" architecture. The card draws power from a single 6-pin PCIe power connector, its TDP is rated even lower than that of the AMD Radeon RX 480, at 120W (vs. 150W of the RX 480). NVIDIA has been making huge (and successful) performance claims for its "Pascal" GPUs so far. The GTX 1060 is claimed to be faster than the GeForce GTX 980 from the previous generation, and "much faster" than the RX 480, which means that NVIDIA intends to price this card competitively to the RX 480.
117 Comments on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Reference Board Design and Clocks Confirmed
That said, I expect the prices will be 299$ for the founders and a 259$ “regular” edition, and it will still sell like hotcakes. Subtract 20$ for the 3GB version, if it’ll actually exist outside the OEM channels.
Planned obsolescence as you are implying is mostly a fallacy. No piece of equipment, whether a car or computer equipment is meant to last forever, so you are correct.
I suspect you mean though, as many conspiracy theorists claim, that drivers deliberately worsen the performance of previous gen cards. This is a fallacy. Drivers can improve the performance of a gpu by optimizing things. Most of these imprivements come early on in a GPU life. Eventually, there is a point at which hardware limits of that design have been reached, and no further optimizatiion is possible. This is not abandonment or planned obsolescence.
yes, it will depend on the clock, but what i meant was that i expect it to be clocked high by default, and that made me wander about the oc headroom that it might lack. that would be so ironic for the 10xx series.. :DLOL indeed!!
1060 cant be both so the premium must be Ti?
Paper knee jerk response to 480, which is seeming very mediocre as well, but perhaps it's due to AMD overvoltage to get better yields in the new process.
The 1070 is as fast a 980 Ti. With Nvidia marketing the 1060 as faster than a 980, the 1060 will start to eat into the 1070, especially if priced against the RX 480.
As for pricing (relative to a 480 anyway), there's the tidbit that these dies are much larger than the 480's, and from a nm perspective, is at a 13% transistor density disadvantage. Unless Nvidia is doing successful faulty die recovery from 1080\70 wafers to make the 60, I can't see this really working, unless Nvidia sells at a loss of course.
It doesn't defeat it at compute.
Games are more than just compute.
Leaked benches show that 15% is an overstatement.