Geforce GTX 1060 is latest creation powered by Nvidia Pascal.
Looks like Nvidia is on a spree to dominant the market of Graphic Processing Unit for PC. And for that they have come up with something new, the Geforce GTX 1060. As the name suggests the GTX 1060 GPU is a new release in the GeForce GTX 10 series line and is targeted for the buyer for looking for value for money and it is worth every penny you spend on it. It is based on the Nvidia's Pascal Architecture on which their bad boy, the GTX 1080 and the 1070 is based on. First clearing one thing that the price of this in USA is around $249 i.e. around 17000 rupee but that will be the case due to shipping and other charges which will add upto almost 50% of its original cost. That thing cleared the next thing is the release date and Nvidia did showed a subtle competition to AMD by announcing the release to be July 19 and looks like an answer to AMD's Radeon RX 480 which is priced at $200 about 50 bucks cheaper as AMD is always been the choice for budgets based buyers. But looks like this time Nvidia is taking their game to them by tackling them in the segment which had been ruled by them since inception.
Broadly compare them side by side and you will know what I am saying. Radeon feature Unlike their other products Nvidia will be releasing only one variant of their product featuring 6GB of GDDR5 RAM and will be available by the partner companies like Gigabyte, ZOTAC, Asus and Msi but here is the catch, AMD is providing RX 480 with 4GB of GDDR5 RAM at $200 which at first sound like a better deal but not for us. As we know overhead will be added to both of them their actual MRP will not be very different therefore whether they did it intentionally or unintentionally they created a problem for AMD in their own game.
Now lets move to the star of our todays show shall we. The GTX 1060 have maximum clock of 1.7GHz and a bandwidth of 8Gbps with like all its high-end GPUs will have next-gen VR enabled. With 1280 CUDA cores and drawing 120W it is nothing to be mess with. To put that into perspective these are almost the same specs as that of GTX 980, well almost.
But Nvidia is also claiming something else, their expectation and affirmation is quite higher as they are saying it has the same performance and benchmark and that might be true as it is feature the Pascal architecture. They also promises that it is capable of providing 3 times the performance of previous GPUs. But these can only be tested only and when it is released and we all will be eagerly waiting for that.
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