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The firm chameleon (NVIDIA) has indeed formalize the upcoming launch of its new midrange card , the GTX 1060 : it goes on sale on July 19 , and suggested introductory price will be $ 299 for the version Founders Edition and $ 249 in the best case for custom versions by brand partners ( ASUS , Colorful , EVGA , Gainward , Galaxy , Gigabyte , Inno 3D , MSI, Palit, PNY and Zotac ) . NVIDIA confirms its new distribution policy, and whatever we can always discuss the relevance of the declination FE, there is no denying that there is nice to be able to access custom models from launch day .
Behind this and on a more technical level , the GTX 1060 displays online features with what the latest rumors dated announced : embedded GP 106 chip will thus comprise a total of 1280 CUDA cores and run at a boost frequency 1700 MHz . The card will have 6 GB of GDDR5 memory. And NVIDIA Announces overclocking potential that would easily pass the 2GHz mark, like the GTX 1070 and 1080. And of course, the 1060 GTX will use all the new technologies already associated with the previous two cards Pascal : Fast Sync , SMP engine , support for video encoding and decoding 4K / 60 FPS / HDR , or GPU Boost in version 3.0.
Alongside this ad launch , black and green brand also reported that some progress will be provided on the software front in July: Ansel , the new capture tool will make it fully functional on both titles The Witcher 3 : Wild Hunt and Mirror's Edge Catalyst. And the game VR Funhouse , jointly developed with Epic Games and Unreal Engine 4 , is expected to arrive on the Steam portal with HTC Vive compatibility.
