Zotac GTX 1060 AMP! and GTX 1060 Mini pictured

[Djole123]

So, as usual, reference model of Pascal is more expensive and we want the custom models, so, here we go!

 

Zotac GTX 1060 AMP!

Even tho it's not the Mini variant (which we will look in a second) it's a bit shorter. It still has 2 fans none the less.

It looks cool IMO.

 

GTX 1060 Mini

It's shorter than it's bigger brother and it has a single but big fan, which is OK. It has approximately the same dimensions as the GTX 1070 Mini, just cheaper and less powerful.

 

Both of these cards are powered by a single 6-pin connector and both will ship with up to 6G of video buffer.

 

They look great IMO, keep on the good work Zotac!

 

Source:

http://videocardz.com/62073/zotac-geforce-gtx-1060-amp-and-mini-detailed

[handymanshandle]

@byalexandr I think that'd be short enough for you unless you figured sometime else out?

[handymanshandle]

4 minutes ago, Djole123 said:

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I would've thought the mini variant would only come in 4GB, that's kinda impressive they're able to do the full 6GB on it.

[mikeeginger]

Looks cool 

[ClobberXD]

I always love to welcome custom cards into the world! Their arrival can be compared to the arrival of God himself! So many expectations and excitement; and pure joy to finally see them in all their glory! PC industry is indeed booming!

[Misanthrope]

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1060

I said 1070!!!

[DarkBlade2117]

$300-$320 later

[Derangel]

1 hour ago, wcreek said:

I would've thought the mini variant would only come in 4GB, that's kinda impressive they're able to do the full 6GB on it.

Not really. This is the FE card with the cooler taken off: 

 

There is plenty of room left to put on a PCI-E connector on the PCB.

[elago]

The long one looks like a Nitro card form Saphire,

[LAwLz]

49 minutes ago, elago said:

The long one looks like a Nitro card form Saphire,

Zotac is Sapphire's sister company so they probably share some of the design. 

[Nup]

30 minutes ago, LAwLz said:

Zotac is Sapphire's sister company so they probably share some of the design. 

How does that work? Both subsidiary's of a third company? 

[Energycore]

That cooler on the Mini does not look like it's capable of cooling 120W

[Nacho Marco Segui]

Looks like an Intel stock cooler lol.

[Hunter259]

2 hours ago, Derangel said:

Not really. This is the FE card with the cooler taken off: 

 

There is plenty of room left to put on a PCI-E connector on the PCB.

Looks like 8GB models might be a thing... It has all the circuitry to do it.

[Trik'Stari]

2 hours ago, Misanthrope said:

I said 1070!!!

I think I'm the only one who gets this reference.

 

That makes me very sad for humanity.

[LAwLz]

2 hours ago, LAwLz said:

Zotac is Sapphire's sister company so they probably share some of the design. 

 

1 hour ago, Nup said:

How does that work? Both subsidiary's of a third company? 

Ehh... I remember reading it on some forum a long time ago but now that I am looking into it, there is some confusion going around.

From what I can tell, Zotac is owned by a company called PC Partner. They also own Inno3D. Both Zotac and Inno3D are Nvidia-only. They do not sell any AMD cards.

I could not find Sapphire anywhere on PC Partner's website, so I did some more digging. Apparently Sapphire is their own independent company, but they are very close to PC Partner and a lot of the Sapphire branded products are actually produced by PC Partner (according to Fudzilla).

 

So I guess it would be incorrect to say that Zotac and Sapphire are sister companies. It's more like Zotac's dad and Sapphire are best friends, and Sapphire often gets help from the Zotac family.

[handymanshandle]

45 minutes ago, LAwLz said:

 

Ehh... I remember reading it on some forum a long time ago but now that I am looking into it, there is some confusion going around.

From what I can tell, Zotac is owned by a company called PC Partner. They also own Inno3D. Both Zotac and Inno3D are Nvidia-only. They do not sell any AMD cards.

I could not find Sapphire anywhere on PC Partner's website, so I did some more digging. Apparently Sapphire is their own independent company, but they are very close to PC Partner and a lot of the Sapphire branded products are actually produced by PC Partner (according to Fudzilla).

 

So I guess it would be incorrect to say that Zotac and Sapphire are sister companies. It's more like Zotac's dad and Sapphire are best friends, and Sapphire often gets help from the Zotac family.

All I know is that a lot of Zotac cards tend to look noice and a lot of Sapphire cards tend to look noice. But XFX appears to have something interesting. I'd like to see XFX's backplate for the 480. I like the Sapphire backplate on the 480.
Anyways this feels like I'm going a bit OT so umm.

@Derangel Ah okay. Like @Hunter259 said that could mean that some third party might throw an extra two GDDR5 chips on the card since it looks like it's already got spots for it on the reference card.

[Nup]

5 hours ago, LAwLz said:

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Damn. That's an Intersting mixup. Thanks for looking it up man!

It would have been a funny set-up to have two sister company's competing in a an already saturated market. Pretty confusing (and interesting) one no less! 

[byalexandr]

9 hours ago, wcreek said:

@byalexandr I think that'd be short enough for you unless you figured sometime else out?

Could work depending on how powerful it is I might get it. Not an Nvidia fan by any stretch.

 

That and the PCI-E connector is facing up so it adds height when plugged in, maybe not too much but enough to not make it fit.

[handymanshandle]

18 minutes ago, byalexandr said:

Could work depending on how powerful it is I might get it. Not an Nvidia fan by any stretch.

 

That and the PCI-E connector is facing up so it adds height when plugged in, maybe not too much but enough to not make it fit.

Likewise I think AMD does tend to have a better product but the 1060 could be good. The 1070 is pretty good too.

[Bensemus]

10 hours ago, LAwLz said:

So I guess it would be incorrect to say that Zotac and Sapphire are sister companies. It's more like Zotac's dad and Sapphire are best friends, and Sapphire often gets help from the Zotac family.

This is just a really funny way to describe the relations between different companies

[MrDynamicMan]

19 hours ago, DarkBlade2117 said:

$300-$320 later

One of my best quotes, from awesomesauce kyle.

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And as AMD launch the 480, Nvidia is using their deep learning machines to find the meaning of MSRP. 
 

 

[DarkBlade2117]

8 hours ago, MrDynamicMan said:

One of my best quotes, from awesomesauce kyle.

I love Kyle.

[mrchow19910319]

On 10 July 2016 at 10:32 PM, Misanthrope said:

*I said 1070!!! You motherfucker you! 

 

[TheRandomness]

22 hours ago, Hunter259 said:

Looks like 8GB models might be a thing... It has all the circuitry to do it.

192 bit bus cannot support an 8GB frame buffer. It can do 3, 6, 9, 12...etc

256 bit busses can do 8GB

Tell me how busses work please.

This is all from my (flawed) logic btw, so it's probably wrong