Nvidia unveils GTX 1060: $249 buys you GTX 980 power

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Nvidia has broken cover with details of the GeForce GTX 1060, its first product aimed at mainstream PC gamers. Promising performance in line with its 2014 flagship - GTX 980 - the new card offers 6GB of GDDR5 memory with prices starting at $250.
Physically, the Founders Edition of the card bears some similarity in terms of its design language to the high-end GTX 1070 and GTX 1080, but there are significant differences - primarily in terms of its revised plastic casing. Ports and connectivity are mostly unchanged - there's a single dual-link DVI port, three DisplayPorts and HDMI 2.0. Power comes from a single six-pin PCI Express input, and the board has a TDP of just 120W.
The eagle-eyed may note no SLI connectors on the top of the card - Nvidia is ruling out traditional multi-GPU support, though looking to the (far) future, custom DX12 multi-card support as seen in Ashes of the Singularity should still work. The omission of SLI here is a bit of a shame - hooking up mainstream cards in parallel hasn't been a great idea in recent times owing to their lack of VRAM, a situation that doesn't apply to the GTX 1060.
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