NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Video Card Pictures Leaked

We missed it due to the 4th of July holiday in the US, but images of the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Founders Edition graphics card leaked out yesterday! The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 images that have leaked out appear to be of NVIDIA’s reference design, which is now called the Founders Edition.

Specifications for the GeForce GTX 1060 leaked last week, but in case you missed them it appears to be using the Pascal GP106 GPU with 1280 CUDA cores and 8GB of GDDR5 memory. Clock speeds on the CUDA cores would be up to 1.7GHz and the GDDR5 memory is clocked at 8Gbps. The card is rumored to be faster than the AMD Radeon RX 480, but pricing remains unknown.

On the back side of the card you can see that the cards black PCB doesn’t go the full length of the card and there is no SLI bridge located along the top edge of the graphics card. Could it be that NVIDIA is using the PCI Express bus for multi-GPU setups on this particular series?

One of the most interesting things about the GeForce GTX 1060 is the placement of the cards 6-pin PCIe power connector. If you look at the pins for it along the top edge of the PCB and the left side of the card you’ll notice that is looks a bit different.

That is because NVIDIA has routed the 6-pin PCIe power header all the way to the end of the cards. We aren’t sure if it’s a hard wired or a removable connector, but that could be troublesome for those that like buying the reference design card for aftermarket coolers and water blocks.

Update 7/6/2016 – Benchmark.pl has uploaded some better images that shows the 6-pin PCIe connector is hard wired to the PCB. The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 is said to be a 120 Watt card, so hopefully the 6-pin power connector will be plenty for regular use and overclocking!