Introduction

GeForce GTX 1060 Market Segment Analysis GeForce

GTX 970 Radeon

RX 480 Radeon

R9 390X GeForce

GTX 980 GeForce

GTX 1060 Palit GTX

1060 Super

JetStream Radeon R9

Fury Radeon R9

Fury X GeForce

GTX 980 Ti GeForce

GTX Titan X GeForce

GTX 1070 Shader Units 1664 2304 2816 2048 1280 1280 3584 4096 2816 3072 1920 ROPs 56 32 64 64 48 48 64 64 96 96 64 Graphics Processor GM204 Ellesmere Hawaii GM204 GP106 GP106 Fiji Fiji GM200 GM200 GP104 Transistors 5200M 5700M 6200M 5200M 4400M 4400M 8900M 8900M 8000M 8000M 7200M Memory Size 4 GB 4 GB / 8 GB 8 GB 4 GB 6 GB 6 GB 4 GB 4 GB 6 GB 12 GB 8 GB Memory Bus Width 256 bit 256 bit 512 bit 256 bit 192 bit 192 bit 4096 bit 4096 bit 384 bit 384 bit 256 bit Core Clock 1051 MHz+ 1120 - 1266 MHz 1050 MHz 1126 MHz+ 1506 MHz+ 1620 MHz+ 1000 MHz 1050 MHz 1000 MHz+ 1000 MHz+ 1506 MHz+ Memory Clock 1750 MHz 2000 MHz 1500 MHz 1750 MHz 2002 MHz 2002 MHz 500 MHz 500 MHz 1750 MHz 1750 MHz 2002 MHz Price $265 $199 / $239 $310 $360 $249 / $299 €319 $530 $600 $440 $1150 $379 / $449

When NVIDIA announced the GeForce GTX 1060, the company allowed its add-in card (AIC) partners to launch their custom-design cards right away. The company set the MSRP of this SKU at US$249 and is selling its reference-design "Founders Edition" SKU at $299, a $50 premium. This allows its partners to position their custom-design cards at either around the $249 baseline price or the $299 Founders Edition one.The GeForce GTX 1060 is NVIDIA's response to the Radeon RX 480, which offers performance rivaling that of $350 products from the previous generation, at an attractive $229 price point. It is based on the newer 16 nm GP106 silicon, which is the third ASIC built on the "Pascal" architecture. This chip features half the SIMD machinery of the GP104 silicon on which the GTX 1080 is based, but has 75% of the raster operation machinery and memory configuration.We recently reviewed the Palit GTX 1080 GameRock Premium, which comes with a triple-slot cooler that impressed both with excellent temperatures and amazing noise levels. Today, we have Palit's triple-slot version of the GTX 1060 in for review. The Palit GTX 1060 SuperJetStream is the company's highest clocked, but most expensive GTX 1060 variant at a retail price of €319, which matches the NVIDA Founders Edition price. A cheaper variant just called "JetStream" is available at €299; with the same cooler, it runs at the reference 1506 MHz base clock.The Palit GTX 1060 SuperJetstream In this review is clocked at 1620 MHz base clock, making it the second-highest clocked GTX 1060 available at the moment. As mentioned before, the European price is €319, which we converted to $299 for our price/performance calculation.