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not prepared to spend seven hundred dollars on a graphics card find four hundred and fifty dollars a bit too steep as well perhaps I can interest you in a $300 graphics card then yes today in video is announcing their new geforce gtx 1060 graphics card and with it they're targeting gtx 980 like performance the great news here is that while the founders edition might cost $300 the board partner cards will be selling for as little as 250 just ten dollars more than the 8 gigabyte r x 480 unfortunately while I have a gtx 1060 on hand i can't reveal the benchmark results into a july 19th when the card goes on sale today nvidia is simply announcing that the gtx 1060 is coming they've allowed me to share the specs price and give you a look at the card itself codename GP 106 this new GPU features 1280 CUDA cores which is thirty-three percent fewer than the 1070 the good news here is those cuda cores are still clocked really high out of the box they'll operate at 1.7 gigahertz though Nvidia stairs life to 1070 and 1080 they can easily be overclocked to operate it 2 gigahertz Nvidia also says across the top gaming titles the GTX 1060 is on average fifteen percent faster and over 75 percent more power efficient than the closest competitive product presumably they're talking about the radiant RX for 80 here but we won't know for sure until the 19th when compared to the 1070 the memory bus has been downgraded it's just 192 bit wide now but does utilize the same 8 gigabit per second gddr5 memory the slimmer memory bass has reduced the memory bandwidth by twenty-five percent to 192 gigabytes per second because the memory interface has been downgraded the 1060 doesn't come loaded with an eight gigabyte buffer and instead we find 6 gigabytes of gddr5 on board which in my opinion is a more suitable memory capacity anyway comparing the PCB designs of the RX for 80 and 1060 we find that both cards appear very similar the 1060 features too less memory chip studio at six gigabyte capacity versus the a gigabyte capacity of the RX 480 the power delivery is also a lot lighter using a basic three plus one phase design of course the 1060 is expected to consume less power and video recording a power usage of just 120 watts the fans edition card features a 6-pin 75 watt PCI Express connector which when combined with the 75 watts that can be drawn from the pci express slot should give the 1060 plenty of headroom for overclocking I should mention that the 6-pin connector on the founders edition card isn't attached directly to the PCB and instead in video is relocated it towards the end of the graphics card which seems to be purely for aesthetics although the 1060 is expected to consume less power than the r x 480 we find that a video has included a slightly larger a much better quality heatsink on their founds edition graphics card the heat sink itself isn't just larger but it also boasts a much bigger copper base there are more fins as well as in videos gone for a thinner fin design the heatsink also features a steel cover on top to help direct the air through it and at the back of the case interestingly there's a second smaller heatsink at the rear of the graphics card which isn't attached to anything other than the aluminium fan shroud yes that's right even the fan shroud has been constructed from an alloy installed in the little thermaltake f1 suppressor the geforce gtx 1060 founds edition looks right at home sadly while i do have 210 60s on hand SLA isn't supported I was very much looking forward to comparing the our X 480 crossfire cards to the 10 60s in sli but unfortunately that isn't going to happen anyway make sure you stay tuned as I'll be throwing over 20 games at the 1060 and putting together the usual data analysis come the 19th I wonder if the r x 480 will still be the cost per frame king what do you guys think let me know in the comments i'm your host Matt as always and I'll see you guys next time youtubers like me depend on your support to continue improving the quality and content of our videos to support the channel directly consider becoming a patron to also get access to a heap of cool rewards and exclusive giveaways also don't forget you can check prices and buy the products I looked at in this video through the amazon links in the video description below thank you kindly for supporting me and the hardware on box channel it means a lot to me and I really do appreciate it and in return I'll continue to work as hard as I can to keep producing the content you enjoy