New GTX 1060 is the cheapest Pascal-powered graphics card yet

New GTX 1060 is the cheapest Pascal-powered graphics card yet

By Darren Allan

New GTX 1060 is the cheapest Pascal-powered graphics card yet

Those of you who want to jump on the Pascal bandwagon and grab one of Nvidia’s latest video cards will be pleased to hear that the company has revealed a new cheaper variant of the GeForce GTX 1060 with 3GB of memory on-board.

That’s half of the vanilla card’s 6GB of video RAM, but it means that prices for the new GTX 1060 3GB start at £190 (around $250, AU$325). As you’ll see if you have a quick shufty online at prices of the existing base 1060, these are pitched around the £240 (around $315, AU$410) mark or just a tad under.

The fresh offering means Nvidia is more competitively priced compared to rival Radeon cards, with the new 1060 being around the same price as an RX 470 (4GB flavor) in the UK – these are currently around £190 (around $250, AU$325), although you can get some models for slightly less.

CUDA cut

However, it’s worth noting that with the new GTX 1060, halving the memory isn’t the only change, as the amount of CUDA cores has been toned down as well – it offers 1,152 cores as opposed to 1,280 on the 6GB version.

Other specs remain the same though, so …read more

Source:: techradar.com – Computing Components

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