Nvidia gtx 1060: characteristics, availability and price

Nvidia has put the batteries and is going to launch the Nvidia GTX 1060 on July 19, which comes to compete against the AMD Radeon RX 480 as the best graphics quality / price. War of the Titans awaits us!

Nvidia GTX 1060: Official Features

It is confirmed that among its technical characteristics we will find the Pascal GP106 chip manufactured with a 16 nm FinFET process with a base frequency of 1700 MHz that will easily rise to 2000 MHz by overclocking . It also has 1280 CUDA cores.

It will also feature a total of 6GB of 8GHz GDDR5 memory and a 192-bit interface. Like all reference models, it will be accompanied by 3 + 1 phases of power (The Gigabyte GTX 1060 G1 Gaming will have 6 + 1 phases), a 6-pin power socket and an excellent 120 W TDP.

But what performance will we have with the Nvidia GTX 1060 ? Its performance is expected to be equivalent to that of a GTX 980 but with 75% less consumption. If confirmed, it will be a TOP sales card, although its weakest point will be found that it cannot be used in SLI configurations, so we will have to make the jump to the Nvidia GTX 1070 or a future revision.

As a last detail we find an extremely compact PCB, this will help us see ideal models for ITX chassis. That is, we can use this graphics card in a compact device, which can be used to play in the living room and enjoy the HTC Vive virtual glasses. That last!

Availability and price

Its estimated price is $ 249 for custom models and $ 299 for founders edition models, which will only be available for sale at the official Nvidia store.

Everything indicates that next July 19 it will go on sale and the first reviews in Spanish will begin to be seen. We already confirmed in advance that we will be the first to have it, for some reason we are the leaders in hardware analysis.

Are you waiting for the Nvidia GTX 1060? Do you think it will be a better card than the RX 480 or will it have more sales? We care about your opinion!