NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 1080 may be a powerful beast, but true hardware enthusiasts know that the GeForce xx60 is the family member that hits that sweet spot of delivering relatively high end performance without having to pay the premium for buying the most powerful card on earth.
The GeForce GTX 1060 is expected to launch later this month, with unconfirmed reports indicating that NVIDIA will reveal it in a special event on July 7th before it is released to consumers on July 13th. Videocardz.com managed to put their hands on leaked NVIDIA slides that reveal the cards specs and confirm that the card will launch this month.
According to the leaked information, the GTX 1060 sports 1280 Cuda cores and 6GB GDDR5 memory. The card's base clock was not revealed but its boost clock is 1,700 MHz, giving it a maximum compute performance of 4.4 TFLOPs at a TDP of 120 watts.
Judging by the numbers alone, GeForce GTX 1060 should be less powerful than AMD's Radeon RX 480 which drives 5.8 TFLOPs using its 2304 unified cores and its 1266 MHz boost clock. However, NVIDIA claims that – thanks to its superior GPU architecture – the GTX 1060 is actually 15% faster than the RX 480. NVIDIA's card also consumes 20% less power than its AMD counterpart.
The slides didn't reveal the card's retail price, but earlier rumors indicate that it would be priced around $250 to $300.
VIA: Videocardz.com
