Thursday, July 7th 2016
NVIDIA Announces the GeForce GTX 1060, 6 GB GDDR5, $249
NVIDIA today announced its third desktop consumer graphics card based on the "Pascal" architecture, the GeForce GTX 1060. NVIDIA aims to strike a price-performance sweetspot, by pricing this card aggressively at US $249 (MSRP), with its reference "Founders Edition" variant priced at $299. To make sure two of these cards at $500 don't cannibalize the $599-699 GTX 1080, NVIDIA didn't even give this card 2-way SLI support. Retail availability of the cards will commence from 19th July, 2016. NVIDIA claims that the GTX 1060 performs on-par with the GeForce GTX 980 from the previous generation.
The GeForce GTX 1060 is based on the new 16 nm "GP106" silicon, the company's third ASIC based on this architecture after GP100 and GP104. It features 1,280 CUDA cores spread across ten streaming multiprocessors, 80 TMUs, 48 ROPs, and a 192-bit wide GDDR5 memory interface, holding 6 GB of memory. The card draws power from a single 6-pin PCIe power connector, as the GPU's TDP is rated at just 120W. The core is clocked up to 1.70 GHz, and the memory at 8 Gbps, at which it belts out 192 GB/s of memory bandwidth. Display outputs include three DisplayPorts 1.4, one HDMI 2.0b, and a DVI.
The GeForce GTX 1060 is based on the new 16 nm "GP106" silicon, the company's third ASIC based on this architecture after GP100 and GP104. It features 1,280 CUDA cores spread across ten streaming multiprocessors, 80 TMUs, 48 ROPs, and a 192-bit wide GDDR5 memory interface, holding 6 GB of memory. The card draws power from a single 6-pin PCIe power connector, as the GPU's TDP is rated at just 120W. The core is clocked up to 1.70 GHz, and the memory at 8 Gbps, at which it belts out 192 GB/s of memory bandwidth. Display outputs include three DisplayPorts 1.4, one HDMI 2.0b, and a DVI.
182 Comments on NVIDIA Announces the GeForce GTX 1060, 6 GB GDDR5, $249
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You can only compare that if there are cards priced at that price point. On AMD's side there are cards from $199 - $239 so its fine. On the other hand the 1060 is not out so we can't say but based off history is another thing.I never knew I was part of an exclusive club, I just thought I was cheap!
Also; disabling the SLI is just admitting that 1060(SLI) or Rx480(CF) are just too dangerous for the 1080. Why else disable it?
NVIDIA wanted to release this card in a few months, getting people to buy more expensive 1070´s in the meanwhile. Luckly AMD pulled one over NVIDIA this time. Them NVIDIA guys really are all in it for the money it seems. While I agree money earning is nothing dirty; NVIDIA is really walking on a moral border. Just imagine if a pharmaceutical firm would do this. (Yeah, we´re not going to sell this pill that saves 50% of those who are sick and only costs a 1/5th of the price. Instead, we will only sell the one that saves 100% for the full price)
Releasing better things only when forced by competitors......It´s a far cry from trying to put the best product as fast as possible on the market. More instead, only the ones that will bring the most profit.
Id stick to complaining to AMD and Nvidia, mostly for mostly fake competition and borderline price fixing.
GTX 770 and GTX 970 reference designs already had the "premium" cooler, but both were more expensive than their custom counterparts ($50), so in this case, yeah basically FE: better materials but higher price. The "FE" already existed, but were not marketed as such.
resale gouging is gouging.
but when its from legit retailers
www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&IsNodeId=1&N=100007709%20601202919
In stock or not 0 cards at 379$, and only one even close to it. Then manufactured suggested retail price is really just that, a suggestion at least for Nvidia now.
amd still has a sway apparently.
www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&IsNodeId=1&N=100007709%20601203818
in stock or not they sell for msrp of 199$ for 4GB or 239$ for 8GB.
so when nvidia lists a 299$ founders edition and a 249$ msrp, forget 249, 280-320 will be where they all end up as apparent with the 1070 prices above.
Pricing is up to the manufacturers and people will buy what they want to buy. It might piss of AMD zealots that Nvidia sell cards like hot cakes but dem's da breaks. No matter how much people whine about money, the things will keep on selling at those prices until the competition forces the prices the other way. Until AMD match Nvidia for perf/watt, the OEM's will continue to sucker up to Nvidia as it makes a better case for quieter product using stock, reference (FE) cards.
The FE card is in fact touted as being just that - something the OEM's can bank on not changing and thus integrate into PC builds.
The 1060 looks overpriced but the fact is it's an illusion of 'poor' value. Just last week the RX 480 was being hailed as a saviour due to it's pricing. Given the 1060 isn't massively far off and (if PR is to believed) appears to be faster and more energy efficient, then the 1060 isn't actually off base in that dept.
What? you want Nvidia to price their card the same as a product that performs worse (according to PR) and consumes way less power? Get real, this is big business. Nvidia is not your friend (nor is AMD) - they are owned by share holders who demand profit.
It doesn't matter how many of us vote with our wallets - we're a pleb minority of techies. The majority of consumers know shit. I'm certainly not buying a 1080 even though it's 10-15% faster than my card - at that fucking price - NO way!.
Irony is, I'll probably buy a 1080ti as it's probably going to be stupidly fast. Unless of course Vega pulls a swifty and comes in firing with all chambers.
Anyway - people - get a grip of yourselves. Big Business hates you. It wants your money - not your opinions. This card will sell. Period.
EDIT: oh yeah, and no amount of whining, bitching, name calling or fanboy memes (from either side) is going to change that.
GTX 1060 will be available worldwide starting at $249 at July 19th. Stop this BS!
Anyway, I'm quitting this thread. I'll look forward to all the shocked faces on July 19th. If I'm wrong, I'll admit it, but I will be very, very surprised if pricing goes like you think it will. NVIDIA has too many examples under the bridge for me to believe otherwise.
Now, SLI. The reason for SLI on a card like this is for future upgrades. Buying dual cards from the get go is stupid unless you buy multiple high end cards, but what you can definitely do with low-mid range cards is increasing their lifespan. Get one card now and the second a couple of years down the line. Yes, SLI these days are hit and miss and that is a sad state of affairs, I'm hoping DX12 will improve that. Or it might not, but I still see the lack of SLI as a definite downside.
EDIT: The cards I'm really interested in at this point are the low-mid range cards.
1070 MSRP $379? nope $399 Gigabyte
so this thing is not going to sell from $249, it's going to start at around $280 (if not higher)
I would buy this argument if we are talking about lets say an Xbox One, but in the world of building your own pc? or at least going for a gpu upgrade? Im not so sure, you already have to be of that branch and that branch tends to do some research, hell its mandatory tbh to know what you are doing.
Secondly, pricing it the same as AMD yet having a better card means everyone will turn to you, now they can still argue AMD has the cheaper alternative.
If I was big business I want to give the buyers no choice but to go with my product because its simply better in every way.
That means more profit in the end.
While the base models will start at $249:
Now, let's end the trolling.Buying a duplicate card, let's say 1-1.5 years later is never a good deal, then it's much smarter and better future-proofing to buy a slightly faster card in the first place, or simply just replacing the card instead of adding another. If you are going to run multiple cards, you should do it from the start. Otherwise there will be newer and faster cards by the time you are ready to upgrade. Both GTX 1070 and GTX 1080 are better options than 2× GTX 1060 in SLI.
Multi-GPU is only a good choice when you need more performance than a single GPU can provide, so SLI for GTX 1060 is pointless in real life.It wouldn't change much. Games still have to be designed in order to scale well across GPUs.
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