Tuesday, June 28th 2016
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Surfaces in Hong Kong Market
An upcoming NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 reference-design graphics card popped up in Hong Kong's Capital Market. The pictures reveal a reference design cooler that features a design that's slightly different/simpler from the GTX 1080/1070 reference cooler, and features NVIDIA company branding on its PCB, although the PCB code isn't printed in its usual location. The PCB itself appears to be shorter than the cooler, much in the same way as GTX 670, GTX 960 reference, and the RX 480 reference. There are no specifications to chew on, nor any information on what this card could be priced at.
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101 Comments on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Surfaces in Hong Kong Market
And probably rip 480 soon as well. When you're more efficient you will win
So still RIP RX 480.
Vega is at least 4 months off, so RIP RX 480 or not doesn't change the fact about the Founders Cards.
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nVidia, since you are not scared to show the world how shallow you are; start the MSRP at $1 000 000, I am sure you will still get a buyer, you can name it "Gold/Platinum Gaming Edition" The new GTX1000 series lineup from nVidia, the fastest single graphic cards ever created to date." "Pre-Order now and get a FREE GAME."
People writing off the RX 480 should leave the thread now for being morons.
Also, Nvidia wouldn't want to come out with a $250 card just yet. Except if they acknowledge that they have a serious problem with GTX 1070/GTX 1080 availability and they feel the need to flood the market with a cheaper card at higher volumes. GP106 and GDDR5 could help in that.
But even if Nvidia does come with a $250 card and even if they threaten RX480, can they really pose any kind of threat to RX470 with it's rumored $149 price tag? Probably not.
In the end, this is getting interesting.
The bad thing is that the 480 hype has been absolutely stupid, but this time AMD didn't do it, it's the internet. I fear many people will be dissapointed in it and just default back to Nvidia. OTOH it would require a biblical miracle for that not to happen. I swear Nvidia could release a driver that killed motherboards and fried GPUs and blame Microsoft and people would still trust them.
If the RX 480 didn't perform as well as I expected from the user benchmarks, I might stay with Nvidia. The GTX 1060 ought to be better than 960 at least, if not slightly better than 970.
Either way though, if I choose to upgrade I am sure I will get a huge performance boost considering what card I am using now. xP
Plus, if the 1080/1070 are difficult to manufacture, they can just repurpose faulty chips as 1060. But that's just speculation, because it would imply all three cards share the same physical die.