(Confirmed) GTX 1060 Allegedly Unveiled - 6GB for $249/299 USD

[Senzelian]

4 hours ago, The Spark said:

You add 50% to the announced price and you have your minimum global price tag excluding the US. Thats at least how it has been in Denmark for many years.

 

So that should be 340 euros here in Europe.

Order from Germany. You should be able to get a 1060 here for 230€ after a month of the release date. 

[Senzelian]

20 minutes ago, Zeeee said:

Wait does no one see the shady business move by nvidia here? LOL why does no one see this. I'm not a fanboy Btw I low my gtx 970 with all its 3.5gb Lol but look guys this card performs as good as 980 right? NO SLI BECAUSE WHY WOULDN'T people buy 2 and bam 1080 performance for 500$ vs 650$ easy..... Here is the thing okay what nvidia does is usually price their products so that you can't get better price with SLI because they price their products accordingly they would've loved to price  this card at 350 dollars but they were against the wall with the rx 480 if they didn't launch a card a lot of sales would've been rekt so what's the best way to he shady? Remove SLI and all possibility of 1080 performance for cheaper.... So pathetic.... 

That's not shady, that's just smart and called marketing. You should open your eyes and stop living in a pink unicorn lollipop world. 

[TheRandomness]

2 hours ago, LAwLz said:

If it starts at 250, and performs slightly better than the RX 480 (like the leaks, which might be complete bollocks, suggests) then that's great. Still kind of disappointed by the small price:performance jump this generation though. Should have been way bigger since we got such a big node shrink.

 

My only worry right now is stock. The 1070 and 1080 are selling like hot cakes which is driving the prices up. Hopefully they will have more 1060s.

 

Also, according to VideoCardz, the press release for Gigabyte's G1 Gaming version of the GTX 1060 has already been leaked. Hopefully that means we will get custom cooler versions not too long after launch. Not going to buy a founders edition.

What the fuck is with Gigabyte and offset fans?

[lukart]

4 minutes ago, Senzelian said:

Order from Germany. You should be able to get a 1060 here for 230€ after a month of the release date. 

If there's not many cards around, I would say that both brands and etailers like Mindfactory won't be in a worry to push down prices, more the opposite. 

[AlTech]

Did nobody else find that it is disturbing that we have to wait until release date to see the benchmarks?

[Senzelian]

3 minutes ago, lukart said:

If there's not many cards around, I would say that both brands and etailers like Mindfactory won't be in a worry to push down prices, more the opposite. 

There is quite a bit of competition in the german hardware retailer market. Prices will definitly drop quite quickly. 

[The Spark]

3 minutes ago, AluminiumTech said:

Did nobody else find that it is disturbing that we have to wait until release date to see the benchmarks?

I am getting used to that, it seems AMD and Nvidia have apparently adopted the idea that benchmarks before releasing a card is bad, I can actually see the logic in that, imagine the stream of complaints if the cards released actually cant live up to the benchmarks.

[LAwLz]

5 minutes ago, AluminiumTech said:

Did nobody else find that it is disturbing that we have to wait until release date to see the benchmarks?

Nope

It's pretty much standard practices for hardware (same deal with the 480). Pretty sure Intel does it too.

[lukart]

6 minutes ago, Senzelian said:

There is quite a bit of competition in the german hardware retailer market. Prices will definitly drop quite quickly. 

Not if there's no cards to sell... whats the point of dropping prices if you can sell everytihng at higher?

 

2 minutes ago, LAwLz said:

Nope

It's pretty much standard practices for hardware (same deal with the 480). Pretty sure Intel does it too.

Its good for them, show off their hand picked numbers, with their pricing which when they come into reality prices come higher and performance slightly lower

[Senzelian]

4 minutes ago, lukart said:

Not if there's no cards to sell... whats the point of dropping prices if you can sell everytihng at higher?

You have to drop prices so people buy at your store and not at a different one. Thats called competition... ?

 

How do you know that there won't be enough cards available? Do you work for Nvidia? 

[lukart]

6 minutes ago, Senzelian said:

You have to drop prices so people buy at your store and not at a different one. Thats called competition... ?

 

don't take me wrong, but looks like you don't understand much about economics. 

Think, if a shop is cheaper it will run out of stock faster but since there's not many cards to restock he will be out of stock for long enough for other etailers sell the same amount of cards and earn more money.

 

I dont work at nvidia but work very closely to these guys.

But they already have very limited amount of high end cards on sell due to restrains on TMSC 16nm production and having another product sharing that production it will be hard to manage.

 

[AlTech]

11 minutes ago, LAwLz said:

Nope

It's pretty much standard practices for hardware (same deal with the 480). Pretty sure Intel does it too.

Then why do people hate it when Ubisoft forces Reviewers to wait until launch date before releasing a review of a game?

[The Spark]

Its easy, just go back and follow the prices of the 980 or 970, they always had a minimum price far above the announced dollar price here in Europe, thats due to taxes and retail profit. As I already stated, its announced price +50% and it will stay that way for some time to come.

[Thony]

Hmm 980 performance they say. 

If its true then I guess 1060 could be enough fór my 1080p 144Hz if I wouldnt mind medium-high settings hmmm.

 

#1070TheDream

[Curufinwe_wins]

6 minutes ago, ONOTech said:

A bit confused here. Will AIBs be available on the 19th? Or just the FE? I'm assuming the latter but I've read conflicting articles.

All will be available and Nvidia has already indicated they believe most cards sold will be AIB variants.

 

This suggests the FE might be a limited launch for the 1060 (indeed the ONLY place the 1060 FE is going to be available is at Nvidia's e-store).

[That Norwegian Guy]

30 minutes ago, ace_cheaply said:

a 480 is about 10% slower than a 980

In DX11*

 

In DX12 (RotTR, AotS, Hitman) the 480 slaughters all Maxwell cards apart from OC 980 Ti

 

8 shader pipelines really IS different from 1, who would have thunk it

PS: Pascal also has only 1 shader pipeline... Vega is going to be... Funny

[Zeeee]

24 minutes ago, Senzelian said:

That's not shady, that's just smart and called marketing. You should open your eyes and stop living in a pink unicorn lollipop world. 

Lol okay we found the nvidiot everyone! So youre okay with no sli then? You buy a gpu over 200 dollars with no capacity to sli later on? Thats alright? Its not marketing when its blatantly taking away features that all last gens had.... thats like apple taking away the headphone jack except this actually has zero positives for the consumer.... 

[n30phyte]

This is the most exciting GPU release cycle thingie since GTX6xx Keplers and Radeon 7xxx cards were announced.

EDIT: I just realized. This is $250-300 US. It's gonna be around $400-500 when converted to IDR then back. Living in a 2nd world country is fun.

[Zeeee]

4 minutes ago, That Norwegian Guy said:

In DX11*

 

In DX12 the 480 slaughters all Maxwell cards apart from OC 980 Ti

WOW in 2 full dx 12 games thats amazing... you must see the future with those 2 games hey... means nothing until we actually get a crap ton of dx 12 games releasing and we see what nvidia does to optimize...

[Briggsy]

2 minutes ago, That Norwegian Guy said:

In DX11*

 

In DX12 (RotTR, AotS, Hitman) the 480 slaughters all Maxwell cards apart from OC 980 Ti

 

8 shader pipelines really IS different from 1, who would have thunk it

480 only has 4 ACE's btw, but yeah hitman and ashes let the 480 actually utilize all its shaders.

 

ROTR.... I'm not seeing the clobbering.

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[Khvarrioiren]

2 minutes ago, Zeeee said:

Lol okay we found the nvidiot everyone! So youre okay with no sli then? You buy a gpu over 200 dollars with no capacity to sli later on? Thats alright? Its not marketing when its blatantly taking away features that all last gens had.... thats like apple taking away the headphone jack except this actually has zero positives for the consumer.... 

What enjoyment do you get out of making an account just to stir shit up?

[ace_cheaply]

2 minutes ago, That Norwegian Guy said:

In DX11*

 

In DX12 (RotTR, AotS, Hitman) the 480 slaughters all Maxwell cards apart from OC 980 Ti

 

8 shader pipelines really IS different from 1, who would have thunk it

Yeah, true.  It wouldn't surprise me in the slightest if the 480 turns out to be the better card by EOL. Look at The 7970 vs the 680, or the 780ti vs The 290x. The dx12 implementation on rotTR is a joke though

[Zeeee]

1 minute ago, Khvarrioiren said:

What enjoyment do you get out of making an account just to stir shit up?

HOW am i stirring things up???!! i dont understand im putting in an honest opinion i dont get you...

[Khvarrioiren]

1 minute ago, Briggsy said:

480 only has 4 ACE's btw, but yeah hitman and ashes let the 480 actually utilize all its shaders.

 

ROTR.... I'm not seeing the clobbering.

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ROTR started its development as a DX11 title, and was moved onto DX12 late in development causing it to perform rather badly when using it.

[That Norwegian Guy]

10 minutes ago, Zeeee said:

WOW in 2 full dx 12 games thats amazing... you must see the future with those 2 games hey... means nothing until we actually get a crap ton of dx 12 games releasing and we see what nvidia does to optimize...

Pascal is just Maxwell 2.0 as far as DX12 is concerned. It now has an interceptory route for quasi-async behaviour, but still no native onboard control (which means more CPU overhead than AMD) and only 1 pipeline compared to AMD's 8. It won't matter if it's 3 or 333 games under DX12, every AMD architecture since 7950/ 7970 is ahead of even Pascal in architectural efficiency under DX12.

 

The only advantage Pascal has is brute force,  and that's only because AMD's brute force isn't out yet.