Nvidia Pascal GP106 To Arrive Late 2016

Both AMD and Nvidia have tended to launch higher end flagships before moving to fill the rest of the lineup. The same is expected for Nvidia’s Pascal launch, with the “flagship” GP104 based cards set to arrive before the midrange GP106 does. As we know GP104 will arrive with the GTX 1080 and 1070 at Computex and reports are surfacing that we won’t see GP106 till the autumn of this year.

By holding back the release, Nvidia balances out their sales and gives a chance for last gen cards to get be cleared out of stock first. This is especially true of the low-end as GM206, the current Maxwell midrange chip, is still in production. Many of Nvidia’s AiB partners also recently launched new 75W GTX 950 cards, raising suggestions that Nvidia is preparing cards to counter the more power efficiency Polaris 11 which should arrive before GP106.

With GP104 reaching down to the 1060Ti, the GP106 will likely power the GTX 1060, 1050Ti and maybe even the GTX 1050 as well. According to the source, the chip will also not require a PCIe power connector, with a TDP of at least under 75W. This would put is TDP near that of Polaris 11 which is also under 75W. With GP106 already spotted on the Drive PX2, it’s only a matter of time though till Nvidia launches the cards,