Nvidia's Geforce GTX 1060 Will Rock A 256-bit Bus - GP106 Based, VR Level Performance At An Affordable Price

I was making my usual rounds of the Zauba database when I found something very interesting: an entry for the GP106 GPU (aka the Nvidia Geforce GTX 1060). Not only is this the absolute offset confirmation that the GP106 is going to end upwardly in a mainstream consumer format (information technology is thought to power the Drive PX2) very soon merely information technology as well contains another twist. The GTX 1060 will double the motorcoach width bachelor to its predecessor for a full of 256-$.25 worth of motorbus width. The aforementioned amount available to the GTX 1080 and GTX 1070 graphics cards from Nvidia.

Nvidia Gefoce GTX 1060 spotted on Zauba - supports a 256 bit bus with high density GDDR5 retentivity

The aircraft entry over at Zauba mentions only the insurance value of the scrap (meaningless for determining MSRP), the specifications and also the memory type. The GP106 will exist using high density GDDR5 (256MX32 configuration). Since the double-decker width is 256-$.25, we are looking at either 4GB or 8GB of vRAM. I would like to point out here that the entry only mentions the GP106 GPU, so the data contained in the manifest can pertain to either the GTX 1060 or the GTX 1060 Ti. However, I believe it is more likely that nosotros are talking about the quondam, considering Nvidia's historical trend with the "Ti" nomenclature which ordinarily tend to land after the vanilla offering. Co-ordinate to earlier (unconfirmed) reports, the GP106 powered graphics carte du jour will be landing in the fall. The launch schedule is withal, bailiwick to change, since Nvidia is no incertitude waiting for AMD to make a move.

NVIDIA Pascal GP106 GPU Comparison of the die believed to be GP106 versus the Maxwell based GM206. @VideocardZ

Not much information is known about the GP106 at this signal apart from the few scattered die shots given below (courtesy of VideocardZ). The dice size appears to exist around 200mm² and if the GPU has two Global Processing Clusters then we can await around 1280 CUDA cores (256 CUDA Cores per Streaming Multi Processor and 5 SMPs per GPC). The Nvidia GTX 1060 should work only on power provided by the PCIe by design just volition probably have an optional 6 pivot connector added by AIBs to ensure overclocking headroom. Fifty-fifty though the GP106 is near the bottom of the barrel of the Pascal lineup, we have already seen the high clocks that pascal tin achieve, allowing it to pack a lot of punch thanks to the use of 16nm FinFETs. The time has come up when entry level actually means affordable gaming functioning and not a downright horrible gaming experience.

GTX 1060 Spotted GP106 The aircraft entry of the GP 106 based graphics menu at Zauba.com

The x60 point in Nvidia's lineup has ordinarily fallen prey to one clogging or the other, the last example being the GTX 960 which simply had a 128-bit bus width. The low coach width of the 960 meant that despite the color compression technologies introduced in Maxwell, high resolution gaming was something that was a difficult proposition at all-time. With the Pascal based GTX 1060 notwithstanding, things will accept a drastic turn. Not only is Pascal able to attain a very high clock rate, just VR friendly technologies like Simultaneous Multi Projection means that nosotros are looking at a carte du jour that will exist able to offering very decent gaming functioning as well equally compatibility with VR HMDs like the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive.

To give an example, the GTX 960 had a theoretical pinnacle performance of 2.four TFLOPS (1024 CUDA Cores * 2 Operations Per 2d * 1178 Mhz Boost Clock) and a bandwidth of just 112 GB/s. The VR minimum spec is idea to be around the 3.v TFLOPs mark. If the GTX 1060 is clocked anywhere nearly the GTX 1070/1070, you are looking at performance levels of 4.0 TFLOPs+ (Assuming a 1280 CUDA Cadre Count and a conservative clock speed of 1600 Mhz) with a bandwidth of ~224 GB/south. Add Nvidia's new SMP technology on peak of this and you take one amazing deal in terms of a VR-Ready graphics card. We don't really have any idea near the price signal at this fourth dimension, simply I retrieve we are going to exist looking at price levels around the $249-$300 marker. AMD aims to expand the Total Available Market for VR with their Polaris GPUs, it looks like this is Nvidia's answer to the same.