NVIDIA Prepares a GeForce GTX 1060 5GB for Internet Cafes

[Capitan Harlock]

But just lowering the prices for internet cafè for the normal 1060 6gb would not be enough? Really?
I really wanna see the price for 1gb less and if is going to be the new memory or the "old" .
Something is not right at all.

 

[lexluthermiester]

And how again can you benefit brand new hardware when devs or games are not ready for it yet?

Generally, even games not specifically written with a specific GPU platform in mind will benefit from in an increase in framerates from the performance increases offered by better/newer hardware.

But just lowering the prices for internet cafè for the normal 1060 6gb would not be enough? Really? I really wanna see the price for 1gb less and if is going to be the new memory or the "old". Something is not right at all.

What I think is really going on is that NVidia has some binned dies that won't certify for standard 1060's but run fine at a reduced specification. We all know how well the western world reacts to such products, so NVidia is marketing those limited products to a limited market sector. Makes perfect business sense actually.

 

[cdawall]

Wonder if I can order some in for mining. I am really curious to what price point they hit at. I personally was upset we never got the 470D and 570D models here stateside in mass.

 

[Jism]

I wouldn't call my 390 "new hardware," and it suffers the same problem.

Well both camps (green/red) have their way of implementing the way their GPU's proces games. For nvidia it's generally 2 highways, where a speedlimit of 150mph counts. For AMD it's 4 highways with 75mph limit. The Nvidia is in general faster unless the compute / async and all comes into play. Here's where AMD shines.

Dev's generally choose that what suits them best. And that was for a long time DX9/10/11 path and not 12. There are a few games truly making use of AMD hardware to it's fullest. So here you have AMD basicly trying to fix with drivers what a dev was supposed todo.

 

[64K]

But the most used GPUs according to steamstats are gtx750ti and gtx960. And the most played games dota 2, League, CS go, world of tanks, minecraft, heartstone, warcraft and pubg. Except for the last one, all these games run on modest hardware and they drive most of the pc gaming revenue.

Not the ubisoft/EA console port at 4k, that's for a niche.

Agreed and if you look at how many surveyed are reporting using 4K you will see that it's only 1/2 of 1% in the Steam Hardware Survey while 76% are on 1080p. I'm not passing that off as anything like a scientific poll but it does give an idea that 4K gamers are a tiny, tiny segment of gamers and really the only ones that would benefit at all from Pascal's successor at this time. imo it is very possible that Nvidia is looking at Pascal, seeing relatively little competition from AMD, and possibly thinking that entry level through midrange Pascals are plenty for the vast majority of gamers.

I think what Nvidia needs to push forward is for AMD to bitch-slap them like they did Intel a short while back with Ryzen.

I haven't seen it reported anywhere what the actual breakdown in revenue is between microtransaction driven games and other games but I have seen two things that makes me think that a big chunk of the estimated 35 billion dollar PC games market for 2017 is going to microtransactions. One was Riot Games reporting that they had 1.7 billion dollars revenue from microtransactions in 2016 from League of Legends and another was Ubisoft reporting that over half of their revenue was coming from microtransactions instead of actual game sales.

 

[lexluthermiester]

I think what Nvidia needs to push forward is for AMD to bitch-slap them like they did Intel a short while back with Ryzen.

I'd bet real money that is coming. It would be hilarious to watch! 2017 AMD gives the smack-down to Intel. 2018, they do it again with Zen 2 and add NVidia to the fray.

 

[CrAsHnBuRnXp]

I would not be surprised if some of these showed up in eBay.

Probably in the form of flashed 1060's thats arent 5GB labeled as such to increase the price for the ppl being scammed.

 

[rtwjunkie]

Probably in the form of flashed 1060's thats arent 5GB labeled as such to increase the price for the ppl being scammed.

This will definitely then lead to more "What GPU is this that I own?" threads here and elsewhere.

 

[lexluthermiester]

This will definitely then lead to more "What GPU is this that I own?" threads here and elsewhere.

Been thinking about that. I think NVidia and AMD both have learned hard lessons they aren't likely to repeat anytime soon. They've learned the hard way that complete honesty is the best policy. Only time will tell though.

 

[Rich Knapp]

Um, there's still Internet Cafes, where??

 

[lexluthermiester]

Um, there's still Internet Cafes, where??

What are you on about? They're all over the place. There's one within walking distance of my house. Granted it also has food and coffee, but anyone can go in, pay $2 for a day of internet access. And it's fast internet. A lot of students around here that need internet and don't have it where they live.

 

[R0H1T]

Does this come with 0.25MB or 0.5MB L2 cache shaved off, do they still advertise that

 

[rtwjunkie]

Um, there's still Internet Cafes, where??

Well, clearly as far as the article explained....all over China.