By Darren Allan
Nvidia’s new GTX 1060 is now available for purchase, and this is an affordable graphics card which many folks have been waiting for – after all, Nvidia claims it delivers no less than GTX 980-level performance. Which is pretty astounding for this relatively wallet-friendly step up from the 960.
But exactly how wallet-friendly is the GTX 1060? If you want the Founder’s Edition of the card, you’ll have to stump up $299 (around £225, AU$400), and you can only get this version directly from Nvidia’s online store.
However, the vanilla flavor of the GTX 1060 is available from the usual online retailers, with a range of cards from different vendors sporting the usual array of overclocked models, custom cooling and so forth.
Over in the US, prices for these start at $249 – the EVGA GTX 1060 edition, Asus GTX 1060 Turbo Edition and Zotac GTX 1060 Mini 6G (the latter being a compact card designed to fit in a Mini-ITX case) all carry this price tag.
Stepping up
Asking prices then step up slowly towards the $300 mark, with PNY’s GeForce GTX 1060 selling at $259. MSI’s offerings also start at $259 – that will bag you the GTX …read more
Source:: techradar.com – Computing Components