GTX 1060 - RX480

An Unexpected Blow to AMD's RX480

Launching their own 'Titan Killers' this year - the GTX 1080 and 1070 - Nvidia aims to further push the envelope, by conquering the RX480.

With its Pascal architecture, the 1060 is roughly half the performance (and price) of the graphics giant GTX 1080, starting at only $250 US.

Under the Hood

The 1060 boasts a 16nm GP106 GPU, sporting 1280 CUDA cores - from the 1920 cores of the 1070 and 2048 of the 1080.

While it is far less than the 2048 of the Maxwell GTX 980, the New VR-Ready card is claimed by Nvidia to be more powerful due to architectural improvements, coupled with faster GPU performance and memory clocks.

Up Against the RX480

How the 1060 fares conclusively against the 480, will be more than marketing benchmarks in the next week or so when the card officially launches on the 19th, but for now it's far to say the GTX 1060 dethrones AMD's mid-range tyrant.

That is, by about 15% says Nvidia - and in a way that's over 75% more power efficient; the GTX 1060 uses one 6-pin PCIe connector with a TDP of only 120W.

With that, we have a clear winner here.

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