Finally, A New NVIDIA GeForce Graphics Card You Can Afford

The RX 480 however is slightly cheaper in price at $199 and $239 respectively. The good thing is that unlike GTX 1070 and GTX 1080, custom cards will be launching on the very same day as the “Special Limited Founders Edition” on July 19, which will retail for $299. The FE card sports premium materials and components, and a die-cast, machine-finished aluminium body.

Other than that, the specs and features are largely the same: Pascal’s 16nm FIN-FET process keeps power consumption low (150W vs 250W for the GTX 980 Ti) and Simultaneous Multi-Projection, Lens Matched Shading and Single-Pass Stereo technologies offer huge advantages for VR gaming where scenes must be rendered from different viewpoints simultaneously.

The GPU comprises 10 Streaming Multiprocessors divided evenly into two Graphics Processing Clusters. Like the GTX 1070, it will use GDDR5 video memory clocked at 8Gbps, though it will only use 6GB of it as opposed to the 1070’s 8GB allotment. You also get a 1.5MB slice of L2 cache and 48 ROPs.

Rocking the award-winning TWIN FROZR VI thermal design with supreme cooling power allows the GAMING Z cards to have extreme core and memory clock speeds out of the box. Asus revealed that it will launch three GTX 1060 models but was tight-lipped on the details. The situation we saw with GTX 1070 and GTX 1080 might repeat again where gamers will find themselves in a tough spot in securing a GTX 1060. It is anticipating the launch to be as successful as historic milestones like the 8800 GT and GTX 460. It will be interesting to see how quickly NVIDIA can reach supply/demand balance with these parts (it still hasn’t done so with its higher-end GTX 1080 cards). Gamers could enjoy maximum freedom to choose the right scheme for their gaming rigs with 16.8M customizable color options and numerous lighting effects using the newly developed XTREME Engine utility software.

This is the latest entry to the 1000 series, following on from the 1070 and 1080 which were released earlier this year. In supported titles it lets you enter a free-roaming camera at any point to capture the exact shot you want i.e. instead of just the usual first or third person screenshot.

Nvidia also announced today that Mirror’s Edge: Catalyst and Witcher 3 would be getting Ansel integration this month.