Nvidia Geforce GTX 1060 can be based on GP104 with halved number of CUDA cores

In connection with the information about the long-awaited Geforce GTX 1080 Ti and the next GTX Titan to be found online, information also appears about the GTX 1060, which is expected to take over as Nvidia’s volume seller after the GTX 960. previous reports.

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Specifications: Geforce GTX 1060

	GTX 1080	GTX 1070	GTX 1060	GTX 960
Technical	16 nm TSMC	16 nm TSMC	16 nm TSMC	28 nm TSMC
Circuit	GP104	GP104	GP104	GM206
Circuit surface	314 mm2	314 mm2	314 mm2	227 mm2
Transistors	7.2 billion	7.2 billion	7.2 billion	2.94 billion
Architecture	Pascal	Pascal	Pascal	Maxwell
CUDA cores	2 560 st.	1 920 st.	1 280 st,	1 024 st.
Texture units	160 st.	120 st.	80 st,	64 st.
Raster units	64 st.	64 st.	48 st.	32 st.
Clock frequency	1 607 MHz	1 506 MHz	1 545 MHz	1 127 MHz
GPU Boost	1 733 MHz	1 683 MHz	1 658 MHz	1 178 MHz
Computational power	8 873 GFLOPS	6 463 GFLOPS	4 244 GFLOPS	2 413 GFLOPS
Memory bus	256-bit	256-bit	192-bit	128-bit
Memory amount	8 GB GDDR5X	8 GB GDDR5	6 GB GDDR5	4/2 GB GDDR5
Memory frequency	10 000 MHz	8 000 MHz	8 000 MHz	7 000 MHz
Memory bandwidth	320 GB/s	256 GB/s	192 GB/s	112 GB/s
Power supply	8-pin	8-pin	6-pin	6-pin
TDP	180 W	150 W	110 W	120 W

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According to the information, the Geforce GTX 1060 will not be based on a smaller circuit called GP106, but a really stripped down variant of GP104 where the number of CUDA cores has been halved. Another change is that a quarter of the memory bus has been deleted, which reduces the bandwidth to 192 GB / s and the amount of memory to 6 GB – down from 256 GB / s and 8 GB for the GTX 1070 respectively.

The relatively low number of CUDA cores is instead offset by higher clock frequencies, where a turbo value of 1,658 MHz is stated. This would mean that the theoretical computing power lands just above the Geforce GTX 970 (3,920 GFLOPS), which could mean that Nvidia intends to have an affordable solution that just reaches the minimum requirements for gaming with the VR headset Oculus Rift and HTC Vive.

Compared to the Geforce GTX 960, it is about significantly increased performance, something that is accompanied by a slightly lower TDP value of 110 W. This would make the model a hot candidate for small, compact computers, where the GTX 960 due to its low power consumption used in SweClocker’s game console for the living room.

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Regardless of whether the Geforce GTX 1060 uses GP104 or GP106, the launch is expected to take place during the third quarter of the year, probably during the period August – September.

Source: Chiphell.