{"id":2900,"date":"2016-07-19T02:44:02","date_gmt":"2016-07-19T06:44:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/local.brightwhiz\/?p=2900"},"modified":"2016-07-19T02:44:02","modified_gmt":"2016-07-19T06:44:02","slug":"nvidia-geforce-gtx-1060-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/local.brightwhiz\/nvidia-geforce-gtx-1060-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/\/local.brightwhiz\/tag\/nvidia\/\">NVIDIA <\/a>has announced the latest entry-level <a href=\"\/\/local.brightwhiz\/tag\/gpu\/\">Graphics Processing Unit<\/a> (GPU) under the 1x series of cards. The GeForce GTX 1060 it is. This release comes after the previous releases in May and June which saw the introduction of the <a href=\"\/\/local.brightwhiz\/geforce-gtx-1080-gpu-released\/\">GeForce GTX 1080<\/a> and the close follow-up of the GeForce GTX 1070.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>NVIDIA <a href=\"\/\/local.brightwhiz\/tag\/geforce\/\">GeForce <\/a>GTX 1060 is billed as a competitor to the AMD RX 480 GPU.<\/p>\n<h2>So What&#8217;s Under the Hood in the\u00a0NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060?<\/h2>\n<p>Priced at about $300 this graphics card is powered by NVIDIA&#8217;s <a href=\"\/\/local.brightwhiz\/tag\/pascal-architecture\/\">Pascal <\/a>and is ready for <a href=\"\/\/local.brightwhiz\/tag\/vr\/\">VR<\/a>. Next, we can take a brief look at the specifications with this card.<\/p>\n<p>There are 1280 NVIDIA <a href=\"\/\/local.brightwhiz\/tag\/cuda\/\">CUDA <\/a>Cores and a base Clock of 1606 MHz. The memory speed is at 8Gbps with standard inbuilt memory at 6 GB GDDR5. Still, on Memory, the interface width is 192-bit and Memory bandwidth is 192 GB\/s.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/\/local.brightwhiz\/tag\/microsoft\/\">Microsoft<\/a> <a href=\"\/\/local.brightwhiz\/tag\/directx\/\">DirectX <\/a>12 with feature level 12_1 is supported on this card. <a href=\"\/\/local.brightwhiz\/tag\/opengl\/\">OpenGL <\/a>4.5 is supported as well as <a href=\"\/\/local.brightwhiz\/tag\/vulkan\/\">Vulkan API<\/a>. The connector Bus recommended is PCIe 3.0 with official drivers available for <a href=\"\/\/local.brightwhiz\/tag\/windows\/\">Windows <\/a>7-10, <a href=\"\/\/local.brightwhiz\/tag\/windows\/\">Linux <\/a>and FreeBSDx86.<\/p>\n<p>Maximum digital resolution is 7680px by 4320px @60Hz. With this, the Standard Display Connectors are DP 1.43, HDMI 2.0b and Dual Link-DVI supporting multiple monitors. 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