Nvidia announced the third and cheapest card in its
Pascal family of GPUs today, the GeForce GTX 1060.
At $249, the GTX 1060 offers 6GB of GDDR5 memory and a
boost clock of 1.7GHz, which can be overclocked to 2GHz. That's comparable
performance to the GTX 980, which sells for over $400 at most online retailers.
Those price and performance points make the new GTX 1060 very attractive for
gamers who want to be ready for VR but don't want to fork over the $600 for
Nvidia's top-of-the-line Pascal card, the GTX 1080.
Like the rest of the Pascal family, the GTX 1060 sips
power: 120 watts is enough to run VR titles and provide satisfying experiences
for DirectX 11 and DirectX 12 games, Nvidia says. The card's power demands will
likely spike if you overclock or crank up the realism settings, of course, but
the efficiency compared to other cards is impressive.
The Pascal microarchitecture is also much smaller than
previous cards, since it uses 16-nanometer transistors instead of the previous
generation's 28-nanometer design.
GTX 1060 custom boards will go on sale July 19 from
manufacturers including Asus, Colorful, EVGA, Gainward, Galaxy, Gigabyte,
Innovision 3D, MSI, Palit, PNY, and Zotac. A limited-edition Founder's Edition
card, manufactured and sold by Nvidia, will also be available July 19 for $299
from Nvidia's website.
The GTX 1060 is compatible with Nvidia's new Ansel
capture tool, which allows you to take 360-degree stereo photospheres of your
gameplay for viewing with a VR headset. The catch is that game developers must
integrate it into their titles; Nvidia announced that Mirror's Edge: Catalyst
and Witcher 3 will now have this capability after updates later this month.
In a further sign that Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang
intends to make good on his promise that the company is "all-in" when
it comes to virtual reality, the GTX 1060 supports Nvidia's VRWorks platform,
which in turn is compatible with VR engines from Unreal and Unity. That means
millions of game developers have access to VRWorks, and Nvidia said today that
more than 30 games and experiences are already in development, including Unreal
Tournament, Poolnation VR, Everest VR, Obduction, Adr1ft, and Raw Data.
Source:
pcmag.com
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