Asus, Gigabyte And Inno3D Already Tease With Custom GeForce GTX 1060 Graphics Cards
Following the official announcement of NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 1060 and the presentation of Nvidia's Founders Edition card, NVIDIA's partners are teasing with their custom solutions that will be released soon. ASUS will release three renditions of the GeForce GTX 1060. These include a Turbo card with a blower, the Dual with two fans, and an ROG STRIX card. The last of which has the same cooler as the ROG STRIX 1080 and 1070, and as hinted by the AURA logo may feature the same RGB lighting found in the GTX 1080 and GTX 1070 ROG STRIX cards. You should expect those as soon as the July 19 release of the GTX 1060.
Gigabyte heralds the GTX 1060 G1 Gaming. Like the rest of the G1 Gaming line, this card will have RGB lighting and a semi-passive Windforce cooler. The specific "Windforce 2X" cooler on this card has a pair of 90mm fans. Gigabyte talks up the the enhanced power delivery of its non-reference board design, too. The six power phases on the G1 Gaming card are double that of the Founders Edition GTX 1060.
Inno3D has announced that two cards are on the way. First is the Inno3D GeForce GTX 1060 Gaming OC X2, which features two fans and translucent highlights. Next we have the Inno3D GeForce GTX 1060 iChill X3. This card appears to be longer and also has three fans.It appears that these cards have identical specifications with a boost clock of 1784 and memory clock of 8.2Gbps.
It remains to be see how many of these designs will actually approach the $249 MSRP NVIDIA has announced.