Geforce GTX 1060 Thread: faster than RX 480, 120W, $249

[Sweepr]

Geforce GTX 1060 Reviews

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- Overall Performance

- Power Consumption

We've seen exceptional power consumption with Pascal on the GTX 1070 and 1080 - the GTX 1060 is no exception. While it is slightly less efficient than its bigger brothers, it is still miles ahead of AMD's latest and greatest. This superiority enabled NVIDIA to build a 120 W card that comes with the processing power of the GTX 980.

- Efficiency and Underclocking

The competing cards' power consumption is now on the x-axis, and frame rate replaces clock rate on the y-axis. Using the graph's horizontal lines as a reference, we come away with the realization that Nvidia’s GeForce GTX 1060 requires 61W to achieve 130 FPS at 1920x1080, whereas the AMD Radeon RX 480 needs 139W for the same frame rate in spite of its adjusted voltage. In order to average 90 FPS at 2560x1440, the GeForce GTX 1060 draws just under 62W, whereas the Radeon RX 480 comes in at 146W.

- Overclocking

In terms of overclocks, pushing the fan and power targets to their respective max settings in EVGA Precision, I was able to boost the GPU core and memory offsets by 190MHz and 600MHz, respectively. This resulted in a 14 percent performance boost, which is quite impressive. Surprisingly, the card wasn’t blisteringly loud running at its max 3,200rpm, either.

- Conclusion

Features aside, performance is what matters most to gamers. In seven of our nine benchmark titles, the 1060 is faster than AMD’s Radeon RX 480; it’s slower in AotS and Hitman. Averaging out the percentage differences between them, GeForce GTX 1060 is about 13.5% quicker at 1920x1080 across our suite. Its advantage slips to 12.5% at 2560x1440. Is that going to give you access to a higher resolution? Nope. The 1060 excels at 1920x1080 and can certainly handle 2560x1440, a lot like the GeForce GTX 970, Radeon R9 390, and RX 480. But the most you can hope for beyond those cards is a little less compromise on the detail settings at QHD.

- Models Available at Launch

A wide variety of cards are due to hit today, from most of the major players. The list of cards launching today include...

EVGA GTX 1060 edition: $249
EVGA GTX 1060 Superclocked (SC) Edition: $259
ASUS STRIX-GTX1060-6G-GAMING: $329
ASUS Turbo Edition: $249
PNY GeForce GTX 1060: $259
MSI GeForce GTX 1060 GAMING X 6G: $289
MSI GeForce GTX 1060 Gaming 6G: $279
MSI GeForce GTX 1060 Armor 6G OC: $259
MSI GeForce GTX 1060 6GT: $249
Gigabyte GV-N1060G1 GAMING-6GD: $289
Zotac GeForce GTX 1060 AMP 6GB: $279
ZT-P10600A-10L ZOTAC GTX 1060 Mini 6G: $249

- Linux

So if you are serious about an open-source driver, definitely go for the Radeon RX 480 but for those who want a Linux desktop that "just works" regardless of a binary-only driver, the GeForce GTX 1060 offers much better performance and power efficiency and all of the other leading features of Pascal.

Older News

July 7th updates from NVIDIA:

- GTX 980-level performance, twice the energy efficiency in VR
- Average 15% faster and 75% more efficient than closest competitor
- GP106 GPU, 120W, $249 MSRP ($299 special limited Founder's Edition)
- 1,280 CUDA cores, 6GB of GDDR5 at 8Gbps, and a boost clock of 1.7GHz
- Founder's Edition can be easily overclocked to 2GHz with single 6-pin power
- Founder's Edition will be available at nvidia.com, custom boards from ASUS, Colorful, EVGA, Gainward, Galaxy, Gigabyte, Innovision 3D, MSI, Palit, PNY and Zotac on sale July 19th
- Reviews July 19th at 14:00 BST / 15:00 CET

www.hardocp.com/article/2016/07/07/official_nvidia_geforce_gtx_1060_announcement#.V355hDW1GXd
http://www.fudzilla.com/news/graphics/41071-nvidia-officially-announces-the-new-geforce-gtx-1060


NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 official performance leaked

http://cdn.videocardz.com/1/2016/07/NVIDIA-GeForce-GTX-1060-Performance_DirectX-12.png

http://videocardz.com/62122/nvidia-geforce-gtx-1060-official-performance-leaked


Geforce GTX 1060 6GB listed in US stores ($259)

6GB model is already available for pre-order in the US, for $259 and $263:

https://www.sabrepc.com/catalogsearch/result/?q=gtx+1060&order=relevance&dir=desc
http://www.shopblt.com/search/order_id=%21ORDERID%21&s_max=25&t_all=1&s_all=gtx+1060


Geforce GTX 1060 6GB OC - 3DMark Fire Strike Extreme & Ultra Results

Fire Strike Extreme Graphics Score: 6517
Fire Strike Ultra Graphics Score: 3116

http://www.3dmark.com/compare/fs/9258975/fs/9249139/fs/9247799#
http://www.3dmark.com/compare/fs/9259050/fs/9248958/fs/9247684#

Seeing that AMD is ready to release its new Polaris-based Radeon RX 480 graphics card soon and company vice president Raja Koduri steadily managing the Radeon graphics technology business, Nvidia has decided to start selling its GeForce GTX 1060 products, which were originally set to launch in August, in the near future to defend from the competition. With the competition between the next-generation graphics cards shifting forward, graphics card players have turned to focus on preparing for new products.

...With AMD aggressively pushing into the mid-range and mainstream sectors, Nvidia has moved forward the releases of GeForce GTX 1060 products by a month and is likely to reduce their prices to make them more competitive.

Since channels still have many GeForce GTX 960/950 graphics card inventory, Nvidia's sudden change of plans also forced graphics card players to turn to focus on new products instead of clearing inventory.

www.digitimes.com/news/a20160627PD207.html


Some new info/rumour by Bench-life. Better translation would be appreciated!

- NDA lifts July 7 (next thursday)
- On sale around July 14
- 3GB and 6GB versions of GP106-300, and two versions of GP106-400 (3GB and 6GB?)
- GP106 with 1250 CUDA cores (GP106-300?) doesn't support SLI
- Geforce GTX 1060 3GB for $249, Geforce GTX 1060 6GB for $299

As for the GeForce GTX 1060 listing price, of course, the sources also mentioned, but at this stage is for reference only.

https://benchlife.info/nvidia-geforce-gtx-1060-launch-mid-of-july-06292016

With AMD aggressively pushing into the mid-range and mainstream sectors, Nvidia has moved forward the releases of GeForce GTX 1060 products by a month and is likely to reduce their prices to make them more competitive.

DigiTimes says they might reduce prices to make them more competitive.


Specs are out!

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 features 1280 CUDA cores, faster than GTX 980 and RX 480

http://i1024.photobucket.com/albums...-RX-480-performance-1-900x467_zpsc1jq54ue.jpg

http://i1024.photobucket.com/albums...e-GTX-1060-vs-GTX-980-900x491_zpscfdc7edn.jpg

http://i1024.photobucket.com/albums...pecifications-FInal-1-900x493_zpsntxzx8ip.jpg

Here they are, first specifications of GeForce GTX 1060. This card features 1280 CUDA cores and 6GB of GDDR5 memory (so quite possibly 192-bit interface). The boost clock is somewhere around 1700 MHz, which gives us maximum compute performance of 4.4 TFLOPs.

NVIDIA rated GTX 1060 at 120W TDP, which is less than Radeon RX 480 (150W). According to leaked slides GTX 1060 will be faster than Radeon RX 480 in terms of performance. It will also be 1.4x more power efficient. However be advised graph values start at 0.8.

In terms of design, it seems that the leaked picture was quite accurate and this is really the new (Founders) design.

More importantly GTX 1060 will launch in July, and the fact that we have these slides already, could further suggest that the rumored launch date is true (7th July).

http://videocardz.com/61753/nvidia-geforce-gtx-1060-specifications-leaked-faster-than-rx-480


$249 for AIBs, $299 for the special limited Founder's Edition:

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060: 249 USD, 299 USD Founders Edition

http://cdn.videocardz.com/1/2016/07/NVIDIA-GeForce-GTX-1060-5-1.jpg

http://cdn.videocardz.com/1/2016/07/NVIDIA-GeForce-GTX-1060-2-1.jpg

http://cdn.videocardz.com/1/2016/07/NVIDIA-GeForce-GTX-1060-6-1.jpg

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 features 1280 CUDA cores and 6GB GDDR5 memory across 192-bit interface. The boost clock is around 1710 MHz, but we have already seen this card reaching 2 GHz, so it will be interesting to see how close this puts it to GTX 1070.

http://videocardz.com/61917/nvidia-geforce-gtx-1060-to-cost-249-299-usd

 

[R0H1T]

So the game of peekaboo resumes. I bet the supply would still be miniscule a month from now & the 1060 volume, at launch, will not be better than 1080+1070 combined & that's assuming it won't be a proper paper launch

 

[Silverforce11]

With AMD aggressively pushing into the mid-range and mainstream sectors, Nvidia has moved forward the releases of GeForce GTX 1060 products by a month and is likely to reduce their prices to make them more competitive.

Bring on the competition, it's good for gamers!

Btw, AMD is aggressively pushing into the entry & mainstream GPU market. Not mid-range. $99, $149/$179 and $199/$229 don't exactly scream mid-range.

Mid-range is the 970/390.

 

[coercitiv]

I'm a bit surprised this is all we get before the 29th: I was expecting a surprise move from Nvidia. They still have time though :sneaky:

 

[Silverforce11]

Do you guys think it's GP106 based or a further cut GP104?

From the looks, because of the reference design, I think it's another cut of GP104. Supposedly the "premium" FE design is too premium and cannot be used for a low priced mainstream SKU based on a mainstream chip like GP106.

 

[ShintaiDK]

So the game of peekaboo resumes. I bet the supply would still be miniscule a month from now & the 1060 volume, at launch, will not be better than 1080+1070 combined & that's assuming it won't be a proper paper launch

What's a proper launch? To have supply for all the initial demand at day 1? That makes no logistic sense.

Even Intel, with 6 months production in advance can barely, if even live up to demand. For K models they obviously couldn't. Same applies for consoles, Smartphones etc. Even Apple cant make enough SE for example.

 

[ShintaiDK]

Do you guys think it's GP106 based or a further cut GP104?

From the looks, because of the reference design, I think it's another cut of GP104. Supposedly the "premium" FE design is too premium and cannot be used for a low priced mainstream SKU based on a mainstream chip like GP106.

Its GP106.

~90-100W 192bit, 6GB, 48 ROPs, 120 TMU? 1280SP.

Sub 75W, 192bit, 3GB, 48 ROPs, 100 TMU? 1024SP.

 

[Flapdrol1337]

Do you guys think it's GP106 based or a further cut GP104?

From the looks, because of the reference design, I think it's another cut of GP104. Supposedly the "premium" FE design is too premium and cannot be used for a low priced mainstream SKU based on a mainstream chip like GP106.

The only thing that photo shows is a much shorter PCB. Why do you think it's a further cut gp104 when you can't see anything?

 

[Silverforce11]

Its GP106.

~90-100W 192bit, 6GB, 48 ROPs, 120 TMU? 1280SP.

Sub 75W, 192bit, 3GB, 48 ROPs, 100 TMU? 1024SP.

Well, it looks to be a good reference design for a mainstream SKU. *thumbsup* from me.

Basically 1/2 a 1080 in full chip specs as we expected for GP106. Performance should be between 970/980 stock.

 

[mohit9206]

I think there will be two models for 1060. 3gb to hit $200-230 price point and $240-260 for 6gb.I don't think there will be separate 1060 and 1060Ti cards.

 

[ShintaiDK]

Seems to be 1060 and 1050. 960 and 950 replacements.

 

[Keysplayr]

Now this is what was meant to compete with mid range cards like polaris 10. I wonder if they'll price them competitively as well.

 

[TidusZ]

What's a proper launch? To have supply for all the initial demand at day 1? That makes no logistic sense.

Even Intel, with 6 months production in advance can barely, if even live up to demand. For K models they obviously couldn't. Same applies for consoles, Smartphones etc. Even Apple cant make enough SE for example.

Between having millions of products ready for millions of customers or having to wait 3-4 weeks if you're one of the first 70 orders at a major retailer is a big difference. The latter has been the situation on Ncix.

 

[SPBHM]

Its GP106.

~90-100W 192bit, 6GB, 48 ROPs, 120 TMU? 1280SP.

Sub 75W, 192bit, 3GB, 48 ROPs, 100 TMU? 1024SP.

with 1280 I guess it's safe to assume it will be around GTX 980 level?
judging by 1070 vs 980 ti..

 

[ShintaiDK]

with 1280 I guess it's safe to assume it will be around GTX 980 level?
judging by 1070 vs 980 ti..

Rough guess is 1050 = 970 performance. 1060 = 980 performance, give or take. Obviously in VR both will be much better than 970 and 980 due to new tech.

 

[Keysplayr]

with 1280 I guess it's safe to assume it will be around GTX 980 level?
judging by 1070 vs 980 ti..

1060 would need closer to 1400 shaders to have the same +/- 67% 1070 to 980Ti shader count.
Unless my napkin math is off.
So, depending on how high its clocked, maybe closer to 970 performance than 980.

 

[Head1985]

It looks like FE edition pricing again...So 300-350euro in EU for sure...because 1070 cost 500+ euro and there is no way 1060 will cost bellow 300euro

 

[Good_fella]

Bring on the competition, it's good for gamers!

Btw, AMD is aggressively pushing into the entry & mainstream GPU market. Not mid-range. $99, $149/$179 and $199/$229 don't exactly scream mid-range.

Mid-range is the 970/390.

But why? APU killed entry & mainstream dGPU market.

 

[ShintaiDK]

It looks like FE edition pricing again...So 300-350euro in EU for sure...because 1070 cost 500+ euro and there is no way 1060 will cost bellow 300euro

No it doesn't.
https://geizhals.eu/?fs=GTX1070&in=

 

[HardStyler3]

No it doesn't.
https://geizhals.eu/?fs=GTX1070&in=

the lowest i see is 470€ so very very close

why do you defend nvidia so hard?

 

[96Firebird]

the lowest i see is 470€ so very very close

In other words, not 500€+...

Thanks for the confirmation! :thumbsup:

 

[sm625]

All they needed to do was die shrink the 980.

 

[khon]

If the 1060 is half the size of a 1080, why do people think it will match the 980 in performance ? 50% of 1080 performance would be ~970, 980 is around 60%.

Simple math indicates that in order to match a 980, the 1060 will either need to be more than 1280SP, or it will need to be clocked significantly higher than the 1080.

 

[Keysplayr]

the lowest i see is 470€ so very very close

why do you defend nvidia so hard?

You would have preferred that he didnt post the actual pricing, but let the incorrect 500+ figure go unchecked?
Why would you want that and why give the person who posted correct information a hard time for doing so?

 

[Head1985]

No it doesn't.
https://geizhals.eu/?fs=GTX1070&in=

they are not in stock bellow 500euro