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Nvidia's GeForce GTX 1060 is announced as of today the product will be shipping on July 19th and MSRP is $250 so those are the key items that of course everyone's interested in before getting to that this coverage is brought to you by MSI and their lineup of GTX 1060 1070 and 1080 gaming cards including the gaming X that we recently reviewed in terms of the market stack this is the founders Edition card you can see it's a good deal different from the 1070 this is a frankenstein 1080 we made so pay no attention to that a little bit different than the 1070 in some ways but the fact that it is called the founders Edition remains and the 1060 EFI version will be priced at $300 and is supposed to be properly a limited run I don't know if there's a production number on that run but this will be a limited founders edition unlike the previous ones the card is priced at $250 if you buy the AIB partner models that go that low but of course they can price wherever they want the stack they can go up to however high they want they can go as low as 250 for the suggested retail price the card itself is a pretty short PCB comparatively for the previous cards so the 1080 and 1070 are ten and a half inches long on the PCB and they've got a four inch height one and a half inch depth this card the PCB as you'll see here is shorter than the cooler itself the PCB is at 6 and 3/4 inches with the card entirely at nine and a half the height and depth are the same so the interesting thing here before getting into core specs is that this 6 pin headers off to the side and if we look at the back we can see it's actually got some kind of soldering going on here to run a wire off to the 6 pin so that may make modifications interesting if you're trying to put an Arctic cooler solution or aftermarket solution on there or something like that so that will be interesting to look at we'll look at that for review a day now in terms of the core specs the stuff that you need to know is that the card has 12 1280 CUDA cores and that is for reference compared against 1920 CUDA cores of the GTX 1070 and compared against 2560 CUDA cores of the GTX 1080 and so this one's at 1280 total it's got six gigabytes of gddr5 clocked at eight gigabits per second so that's about as high as it goes that going to g5x that's the same as this card the 1080 is running on g5 X which is about 10 gigabits per second so that's the difference there there were rumors that there's a three gigabyte GTX 1060 card we have received nothing to validate these rumors this card is not three gigabytes you can look at it and see right now and there was nothing in Nvidia's press release about a three gigabyte card so as it stands now the information we have today there is only a six gigabyte model announced and it's $250 the rest of the specs this thing has a boost clock the core boost clock of 1.7 gigahertz and it's running off of a single six pin header as shown we don't have much more than that right now I don't even have the drivers yet but we'll be posting a review as soon as the embargo lifts for reviews and just a reminder the release date is July 19th now in terms of other sort of statements from Nvidia accompanying this announcement today and video stated quote the GTX 1060 is on average 15% faster and over 75 percent more power efficient than the closest competitive product end quote and that was specifically mentioned for gaming titles gaming titles so that's not synthetic benchmarks and not necessarily VR clearly this is in reference to the rx 480 we will validate this statement on our own benchmarking as we always do see if it's actually that percentage faster see if there's any trade-offs but it will be an interesting battle to look at certainly and that is kind of Nvidia's posturing on it they're clearly going after the 480 here and the power efficiency thing I don't know if there's 75% more power efficient metric is looking at the the our X 480 pre optimization patch it must be seven sixteen point seven point one so we'll see if that changes but that's that's something we'll look at as the announcement actually comes up this is a 16 nanometer chip so it's still the same architecture as the other Pascal chips these are GP 104 there's 104 dot 200 and 104 - 400 for the 1070 the 1080 this is GP 106 it's a new version of Pascal the same Pascal architecture just a different implementation of it with the smaller SMS and cores and things like that so that's what we got for you the only other item here that I haven't mentioned is is a 120 watt TDP at full load full 100% gaming load 120 watts is what we're told and will support SMP and then I suppose I'll throw in that Ansel and VR funhouse are forthcoming in the next few weeks as well or the next week even but those quite honestly don't interest me so this is where the news is that today stay tuned for our review of the card will do thermal analysis hopefully some additional VR benchmarking we might be there by the time this is releasing but we'll see and other than that all the all the other tests are as they normally are so subscribe to catch that content as it goes live and be the first to see how the GTX 760 performs we'll test it worse everything that makes sense 480 1070 what have you and the pay check the post roll video if you want helps out directly thank you for watching I'll see you all next time you $250 MSRP for the GTX 760 the founders dish the head in the head your head