By Zak Storey
Introduction and specs
Oh what a joyous time to be a PC enthusiast. This year is set to be the largest single advancement in manufacturing processes and performance increases since the start of Intel’s 32nm Nehalem processor line way back in 2009.
Let’s just take a step back and analyze this for a second. In the last 12 months we’ve seen the Z170 chipset, Skylake, Broadwell-E, Pascal’s GTX 1080 and 1070, AMD’s Polaris RX 480 and now, finally Nvidia’s answer to the red team’s mid-range booty kicker, the GTX 1060.
Let’s face the facts. No matter how you look at it, both Nvidia’s and AMD’s arsenals stem from the mid-range. The flagships gain the prestige, but it’s the mid-range that wins the war.
AMD’s RX 480 is currently dominating that part of the market. Its latest card is priced aggressively and sits comfortably in performance terms between the GTX 970 and GTX 980. But is it priced aggressively enough to stem off the tidal wave that is the GTX 1060? Let’s find out.
Pascal power
So then, what do we know about this new mid-range Titan? Well, it’s still based off of Pascal’s 16nm FinFET manufacturing process, albeit …read more
Source:: techradar.com – PC and Mac
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