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

[Misanthrope]

11 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

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

What, this "slaughter" ?

 

Seems fairly mediocre for me, far from a "slaughter" when it can only match a 980.

[Zeeee]

2 minutes ago, Misanthrope said:

What, this "slaughter" ?

 

Seems fairly mediocre for me, far from a "slaughter" when it can only match a 980.

yeah true.... but there is a bigger difference in hitman i think? But as i see fury x now i see that it was marketed as the 980ti killer but it didnt kill 980ti on any dx 11 games and with this dx 12 its only up by 6 i wonder if the 980ti is even overclocked might even match it so hmmm not so scared about getting a gtx 1070 now 

[That Norwegian Guy]

2 minutes ago, Misanthrope said:

What, this "slaughter" ?

 

Seems fairly mediocre for me, far from a "slaughter" when it can only match a 980.

No, that's a slaughter - when $200 matches $499, that's slaughter, you can quote me on that shit

[KillDog]

4 minutes ago, Misanthrope said:

What, this "slaughter" ?

 

Seems fairly mediocre for me, far from a "slaughter" when it can only match a 980.

Price-to-performance slaughtered

[Briggsy]

17 minutes ago, ace_cheaply said:

The dx12 implementation on rotTR is a joke though

It shouldn't have been mentioned then to begin with.

 

10 minutes ago, Misanthrope said:

What, this "slaughter" ?

 

Seems fairly mediocre for me, far from a "slaughter" when it can only match a 980.

especially when the 970 still has ~20% OC headroom left in the tank to match. Don't get me wrong, this is comparing an EOL product to a brand new launch so its not really a comparison. Of course, what else can you compare the 480 to besides the 1060? And out of how many thousands of games on steam right now (and for the next year or so) are going to be using DX12? Its a really narrow cherry picking at best for the next year or two. It's also the most terrible reason in the world to buy a graphics card right now.

[AresKrieger]

47 minutes ago, AluminiumTech said:

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

It would be more questionable if they didn't do it that way

[captain cactus]

$249 is MSRP, so minimum price is $279 then.

[Khvarrioiren]

4 minutes ago, Briggsy said:

It shouldn't have been mentioned then to begin with.

 

especially when the 970 still has ~20% OC headroom left in the tank to match. Don't get me wrong, this is comparing an EOL product to a brand new launch so its not really a comparison. Of course, what else can you compare the 480 to besides the 1060? And out of how many thousands of games on steam right now (and for the next year or so) are going to be using DX12? Its a really narrow cherry picking at best for the next year or two. It's also the most terrible reason in the world to buy a graphics card in 2016.

DX12 has nearly a dozen titles out right now. DX 11 had what, two or three in it's first year?

[Nup]

When ist the NDA lifted for reviewers for the 1060? 

[ace_cheaply]

9 minutes ago, Briggsy said:

It shouldn't have been mentioned then to begin with.

 

especially when the 970 still has ~20% OC headroom left in the tank to match. Don't get me wrong, this is comparing an EOL product to a brand new launch so its not really a comparison. Of course, what else can you compare the 480 to besides the 1060? And out of how many thousands of games on steam right now (and for the next year or so) are going to be using DX12? Its a really narrow cherry picking at best for the next year or two. It's also the most terrible reason in the world to buy a graphics card right now.

I agree, which is why i pointed out it's a joke. 

 

If it the 970 is already boosting to ~1350, then no, it doesn't have 20% OC headroom.  I couldn't find which 970 they used, or what the boost clock was. Maybe you can point it out?

[AlTech]

42 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

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

Shader pipelines? What are you on about? Also how much faster is an RX 480 compared to a GTX 770.

[Misanthrope]

5 minutes ago, Khvarrioiren said:

DX12 has nearly a dozen titles out right now. DX 11 had what, two or three in it's first year?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_games_with_DirectX_12_support

 

1) Heroes and Generals: DX12 support removed due to bugs, good luck.

 

2) Ashes of the singularity: The one DX12 title that's worthy out of the bunch

 

3) Decent: Underground: Early Access games do not count

 

4) Squad: "coming" (when?.....*crickets*)

 

5) Survarium: Also coming, even more vague as to when, also early Access.

 

6) Caffeine: Not clear about the DX12 support let's assume is fully supported by now. That's 2 games, only one with a significant advantage.

 

7) Elder Scrolls Online: More nebulous "coming" BS. The turd will probably die or go free to play then die before they're done patching it

 

8) Rise of the Tomb Raider: third actually retail released game on the list, second that's somewhat worthy.

 

9) Gears of War: Ultimate Edition: Windows 10 store only. I rather eat shit then use Windows store but fine, game's out on DX12

 

10) Hitman, 11) Quantum Break, 12) Forza 6: All of this out in retail DX12

 

11) Total war whatever: whatever also stands for their "coming" disclaimer which might as well read "if we ever feel like it"

 

So I guess you only need 7 to complete a dozen somehow in your book?

[AlTech]

13 minutes ago, Nup said:

When ist the NDA lifted for reviewers for the 1060? 

July 19th

[porina]

Interesting move announcing now. It was probably planned anyway since you can't efficiently get everyone on the internet to post about it without notice. Still, I wonder if this will help prevent undecided buyers from going 480 (more than AMD themselves are doing). That is, someone who wants a next gen card, but doesn't want to pay the 1070 or above pricing. 1060 is close enough to 480 to be compared against it. Not saying they're the same, just close enough.

[Unhelpful]

1 minute ago, AluminiumTech said:

 

RX 480 performs very similarly to the 970.

[AlTech]

1 hour ago, lots of unexplainable lag said:

$249 is MSRP, so minimum price is $279 then.

No. As I tried to explain yesterday.

 

 

The price could be $1 USD (almost impossible but still hypothetically possible) or as much as 1 million dollars (also hypothetically possible).

 

The starting price will likely be $249 for Board partners.

 

1 hour ago, JoeyDM said:

RX 480 performs very similarly to the 970.

But how much faster is it compared to the 770?

 

30-40%?

[Whiskers]

Alright, thread re-opened.

 

If any more insults, name-calling or crappy behaviour happens again in this thread it will be permanently locked, and those responsible will receive a good ol' barrel full o' warning points.

 

LTT is not the place for being a dick to one another. Discuss your differences in opinion politely or don't bother posting at all.

[Deletist_Jerk]

Nvidia just responds casually to the RX480. 

 

AMD needs to ambush Nvidia on the high-end. Regaining market share with mainstream GPU seems to be failing already. 

[Hunter259]

So this will place the 1060 custom boards around the same price as the 480 custom boards. RIP 480 sales.

[MoonSpot]

33 minutes ago, porina said:

1060 is close enough to 480 to be compared against it. Not saying they're the same, just close enough.

Depends, I happen to disagree.  As someone that is in the market for a completely rig including a new monitor.  I've got to point of where you may only see a $50-100 difference, I see greater than $200 delta with the consideration of freesync/gsync.  In my eyes they're not even in the same ballpark for price to performance.

[nosirrah123]

Interesting. I might just wait for the 1060 to come out before I build. Even though I was already waiting for the 480 AIB.

[ace_cheaply]

15 minutes ago, Deletist_Jerk said:

Nvidia just responds casually to the RX480. 

 

AMD needs to ambush Nvidia on the high-end. Regaining market share with mainstream GPU seems to be failing already. 

Well, RX 480's seem to be sold out on newegg and microcenter, so there's that at least. 

 

Also

 

"AMD can't compete at the high-end, they really need to focus on mainstream gpu's to get back market share."

"AMD mainstream GPU's can't compete with Nvidia's, they really need to just win in the high end to get that brand recognition."

 

We don't even know how the card will actually perform in benchmarks.  I'd be surprised if it was slower than the 480 now, given the official Nvidia statement of 980 performance, but AMD cards also have a history of being better over the long term.  I am excited to see how the new dx12 titles like BF1 will perform.  Either way, it will be the first 60 series card to be faster than the AMD equivalent 80 series card in a long time.   

 

480 AIB cards, now is the time to come out. They really need to stop waiting, if they already have stock.

[AlTech]

Can anybody tell me how better a RX 480 OR a GTX 1060 would be compared to a GTX 770?

or do I need to start a small thread for this?

[ThinkWithPortals]

Not holding my breath, since the European pricing is going to be crap anyway...

*cries for being a european peasant*

[porina]

11 minutes ago, MoonSpot said:

Depends, I happen to disagree.  As someone that is in the market for a completely rig including a new monitor.  I've got to point of where you may only see a $50-100 difference, I see greater than $200 delta with the consideration of freesync/gsync.  In my eyes they're not even in the same ballpark for price to performance.

Different people have different value judgements, that's fine. I don't go for any-sync so that doesn't matter to me.

 

Actually, if you bring in free-sync vs. g-sync to the value equation, could any nvidia card satisfy you?