NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Reviews + Benchmarks

[Misanthrope]

Disregarding international pricing looks like at worst equal at best significantly better performance for the same price. 

 

480 what? 

[ZestyJalapeno]

1 hour ago, don_svetlio said:

Don't worry, Titan P will cost 1500$ and people will fanboy over that

But the cooler! It's so aloominum...and industrial!! It's totally not the inadequate cooler that the first debuted on Titan 1 and now just had sex with Megatron!! 1111one

[ACatWithThumbs]

37 minutes ago, Mr_Troll said:

what a surprise nvidia beating amd at DX 11.... nothing new.... DX 12, vulkan will be a different story.... 

DX12 performance is still pie in the sky for all GPU's out right now.
We don't have a single game that actually fully uses DX12/DX12_1.

A-Sync is only a tiny part of DX12 and AMD lacks conservative rasterization as an example which allows for real time ray tracing of shadows as well as minimal performance impact on voxel based lighting models or voxel based fluid simulation.

[SteveGrabowski0]

I'm glad you can actually find $250 models like the Gigabyte and PNY dual fan cards.

[samcool55]

Well, i wasn't expecting it but here in Europe Nvidia pulled it off.

They made the decision very hard.

 

There are custom 1060 designs, in stock, and for the same price as the rx 480 8GB reference.

And looking at amd having no custom designs available, i don't know...

 

 

[Valentyn]

2 minutes ago, samcool55 said:

Well, i wasn't expecting it but here in Europe Nvidia pulled it off.

They made the decision very hard.

 

There are custom 1060 designs, in stock, and for the same price as the rx 480 8GB reference.

And looking at amd having no custom designs available, i don't know...

 

 

Not where I am, the reference 480 is as low as £219 for 8GB model.

The Powercolor Devil 480 with a 1.4Gh clock listed at £249, so the 1060 cards are in all the price brackets from £229 to 325

[samcool55]

Just now, Valentyn said:

Not where I am, the reference 480 is as low as £219 for 8GB model.

The Powercolor Devil 480 with a 1.4Gh clock listed at £249, so the 1060 cards are in all the price brackets from £229 to 325

I can't order from OCUK D:

Which sucks and is very confusing because i live in belgium but they don't ship to me.

But they do ship to the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Germany and France which are all the countries surrounding Belgium...

Probably most of their international shipping go through Belgium but whatever O_o

 

Are there other UK shops that sell them for similar prices?

[Valentyn]

7 minutes ago, samcool55 said:

I can't order from OCUK D:

Which sucks and is very confusing because i live in belgium but they don't ship to me.

But they do ship to the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Germany and France which are all the countries surrounding Belgium...

Probably most of their international shipping go through Belgium but whatever O_o

 

Are there other UK shops that sell them for similar prices?

That really sucks! They usually ship all over the EU, I wonder what changed.

You can try Scan.co.uk, but honestly I haven't had the best experiences with their customer support for RMAs, but you can always RMA to the manufacturer since you're in the mainland.

 

Also interestingly the 480 is 32% faster than the 1060 in DOOM Vulkan with Ultra settings 1080p
25% faster at 1440p Ultra

 

This is even with the latest NVIDIA driver that improved Vulkan performance.

http://www.hardocp.com/article/2016/07/19/nvidia_geforce_gtx_1060_founders_edition_review/4#.V44-f7grKUl

[david cassar]

17 minutes ago, SteveGrabowski0 said:

I'm glad you can actually find $250 models like the Gigabyte and PNY dual fan cards.

Evga too (all be it single fan)

[dimitriianghelov]

38 minutes ago, JasonRoGo said:

DX12 performance is still pie in the sky for all GPU's out right now.
We don't have a single game that actually fully uses DX12/DX12_1.

A-Sync is only a tiny part of DX12 and AMD lacks conservative rasterization as an example which allows for real time ray tracing of shadows as well as minimal performance impact on voxel based lighting models or voxel based fluid simulation.

tiny part that gives rx 480 20-30% in Doom over gtx 1060

[samcool55]

Just now, Valentyn said:

That really sucks! They usually ship all over the EU, I wonder what changed.

You can try Scan.co.uk, but honestly I haven't had the best experiences with their customer support for RMAs, but you can always RMA to the manufacturer since you're in the mainland.

 

Ghaa why OCUK really they suddenly have a lot more rx 480's in pre-order and cheaper.

Oh well, let's hope things change quickly... Maybe they can figure something out i don't know but i'll contact them because this is getting stupid.

[Valentyn]

Just now, samcool55 said:

Ghaa why OCUK really they suddenly have a lot more rx 480's in pre-order and cheaper.

Oh well, let's hope things change quickly... Maybe they can figure something out i don't know but i'll contact them because this is getting stupid.

You should certainly give them a phone call, their support is top notch and hopefully they can sort something out for you.

Gibbo there said the Powercolor Devil card is due to arrive either this Friday, or early next week, and given that online posts say it's clocked with 1.4Ghz boost it looks like fantastic value for money at £249.

[samcool55]

15 minutes ago, Valentyn said:

You should certainly give them a phone call, their support is top notch and hopefully they can sort something out for you.

Gibbo there said the Powercolor Devil card is due to arrive either this Friday, or early next week, and given that online posts say it's clocked with 1.4Ghz boost it looks like fantastic value for money at £249.

Yea sending that to belgium would cost me 340+ euros so sadly even if they would ship to me it's not really a good option...

Let's hope germany can come to the rescue and a webshop from there can get me one for a good price.

[That Norwegian Guy]

2 hours ago, don_svetlio said:

 

It's what we expected
480 is better value
1060 is 10% faster

Link:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mF4S5ZaXdgE

 

And watch as in 3 months the RX 480 is 25% faster with the driver updates that Nvidia have already pre-cooked for the 1060. Like 780 Ti vs 290x, 980 Ti vs Fury X, etc ad nauseam.

[Valentyn]

Just now, samcool55 said:

Yea sending that to belgium would cost me 340+ euros so sadly even if they would ship to me it's not really a good option...

Let's hope germany can come to the rescue and a webshop from there can get me one for a good price.

Oh man that sucks! Then again shipping to Ireland from the UK is silly as well, It's £10-27 depending on what you order.

Do have a look at Caseking.de they actually own OcUK so hopefully their prices aren't too bad on both cards.

[porina]

I found it amusing looking at some of my favourite suppliers who had UK MSRP 1060 cards in stock, and one by one they disappeared so mostly higher priced cards are left. I still see one major supplier with £239.99 cards showing in stock. Nearly tempted, but then remembered I need a higher level card as next purchase anyway... still waiting on those after-market 1070s.

[Valentyn]

What the hell! Can someone at Asus get a bloody grip! They must think they're the Apple of AIBs.

£325.99 Strix 1060

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/asus-geforce-gtx-1060-strix-oc-aura-rgb-6144mb-gddr5-pci-express-graphics-card-gx-40a-as.html

£289.99 Strix 480
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/asus-radeon-rx-480-strix-gaming-oc-aura-rgb-8192mb-gddr5-pci-express-graphics-card-gx-40h-as.html

Both having rather pathetic factory clocks when compared to other AIBs.

[Gullerback]

only cards i can find in canada are Asus strix's'  .  for 429$,  I really hope thats not the price trend

[samcool55]

7 minutes ago, Valentyn said:

Oh man that sucks! Then again shipping to Ireland from the UK is silly as well, It's £10-27 depending on what you order.

Do have a look at Caseking.de they actually own OcUK so hopefully their prices aren't too bad on both cards.

Sadly they don't have any AIB rx 480's on their website.

I'll contact them maybe they will have some of them soon.

[ivan134]

6 minutes ago, Valentyn said:

What the hell! Can someone at Asus get a bloody grip! They must think they're the Apple of AIBs.

£325.99 Strix 1060

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/asus-geforce-gtx-1060-strix-oc-aura-rgb-6144mb-gddr5-pci-express-graphics-card-gx-40a-as.html

£289.99 Strix 480
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/asus-radeon-rx-480-strix-gaming-oc-aura-rgb-8192mb-gddr5-pci-express-graphics-card-gx-40h-as.html

Both having rather pathetic factory clocks when compared to other AIBs.

Lol

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&DEPA=0&Order=BESTMATCH&Description=gtx+1060&N=100007709 601205646&isNodeId=1

 

970 launch price

[StealthArsenal]

Here is what EVGA is charging for the SC edition.

 

http://www.evga.com/Products/Product.aspx?pn=06G-P4-6163-KR

 

 

[laminutederire]

1060's are already sold out in some french retailers despite their ridiculous prices (350€ on average). Why? That's like 30% more expensive...

[TheRandomness]

20 minutes ago, That Norwegian Guy said:

 

And watch as in 3 months the RX 480 is 25% faster with the driver updates that Nvidia have already pre-cooked for the 1060. Like 780 Ti vs 290x, 980 Ti vs Fury X, etc ad nauseam.

And then for no reason AMD lowers the price of the RX 480 down to $200 for both the 4GB and 8GB models whilst having plenty of stock for them as Nvidia still struggles getting DX12 and Vulkan performance. *cough* My inner AMD fanboy is trying to break free...

[SurvivorNVL]

Looks like the 1060 is a slam dunk.  May not be the same P2P(stock vs stock), but wattage, temps, and noise as well as more frames(even 3-10 at a time) at $30 more.  Definitely what I would go for.  Good job, nVidia!  

[LAwLz]

Nice

At the MSRP the founders edition gets the same price:performance as the RX 480. But with better software support (nvenc and cuda), lower temps less noisy and what seems to be better overclocking. 

 

Very nice indeed. Probably going to buy it assuming the price in Sweden isn't as stupid as the price of the 480.

 

 

Quick let's talk about how the 480 will cure cancer in the future though updates! Nobody can disprove it so we can all talk out of our asses however much we want and nobody can prove us wrong! Unfalsifiable hypothesises are the best when trying to stay rational and unbiased!