NVIDIA's Pascal architecture has come roaring out of the gate this summer starting with the GeForce GTX 1080 and following up with the GTX 1070. Built around their current flagship GP104 GPU, both cards have set new records for performance and are already in the hands of eager gamers with money in their pockets and a frame rate target to reach. With both costing north of £400 however there's not been much on offer Pascal-wise for the more discerning mainstream gamer, whilst AMD have already brought the popular Radeon RX 480 to the market; this changes today as NVIDIA launches the GeForce GTX 1060

The debut outing for NVIDIA's slimmer GP106 GPU, the GeForce GTX 1060 effectively replaces both GTX 980 and 970 in NVIDIA's product stack, starting from $249 for partner cards and $299 for the ?reference? Founder's Edition. On paper performance claims are startling, approaching (and even surpassing) the GTX 980 for substantially less outlay, lower power requirements, and with a far more compact GPU core. In contrast to the transition from the 700-series to the 900-series therefore the GTX 1060 represents a substantial performance improvement at this price bracket, and a key upgrade target for those currently rocking an GTX 960 or earlier GPU.