NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Doesn't Support SLI? Reference PCB Difficult to Mod

[semitope]

Well the 480 is pretty subpar even when it has Crossfire, but for a 60 series to not have SLI...That could be a deal breaker for some.

nVidia seems to love to find ways to devalue the 60 series. If cutting it's memory bus wasn't enough, now it loses SLI capabilities.

Does send a bit of a message to midrange and under...if you don't have 1070 or better, you do have squat.

Nows the time for AMD to pull out the 8 pin 480 that clocks like they hyped the 480 up to be.

pretty sub par relative to what? clocks like they hyped it up to be? Where was this hype? Last I saw everybody was mad AMD wasn't giving more information. now all of a sudden they hyped too much...

 

[nem..]

http://forums.anandtech.com/showpost.php?p=38336263&postcount=46

For those who want to believe PR, let me test your logic..

NVIDIA says the 1070 has 64 ROPs. Is this the complete truth?

Look at the diagram and look at the actual test result of Rasterizer performance.

^ If you know anything about NV's architecture layout, you would have quickly realized Rasterizers are within a GPC cluster, if it's cut, bye bye ROPs.

Look at it's fillrate performance:

Ohh look at that! Nowhere near the 1080 with full 64 ROPs. It looks to be missing quite a few, like it's only got 48 ROPS usable.

What a coincidence, each GPC has 16 ROPs, four for the full GP104 equates to 64, 3 for the 1070 equates to 48 ROPs.

Do you trust AMD or NV PR?

Need I remind you, 970 fiasco?

 

[Saint Stryfe]

The 1080 is faster than 980 SLI, not twice as strong as a 980. So it is like 60-70% stronger. So now cut that performance in half and you will get around 970 framerates.

I'm sorry but based on the specs the 1060 looks to be around exactly as strong as the 480 while having less VRAM and costing more money. Simple as that.

And you know what? Team Red has so thoroughly burned its bridges over the last 5 years that despite a possible few percent win in the 200-dollar-card-arena, people will STILL not trust them, because practically everything AMD has touched since 2010 has turned into a giant failure.

 

[john_]

And you know what? Team Red has so thoroughly burned its bridges over the last 5 years that despite a possible few percent win in the 200-dollar-card-arena, people will STILL not trust them, because practically everything AMD has touched since 2010 has turned into a giant failure.

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and now

Nvidia GTX 1080, 1070 Display Port Incompatible With Vive HMD

And those are just a few examples of Nvidia problems with the latest ultra expensive GTX 1080. I could add the extra $100 for a name change in the bug list. You will probably add the extra $100 Nvidia wants for it's Founder Edition cards in the feature list

 

[ShurikN]

Seems to me like the entire Pascal line is rushed as hell. Wonder what nice problems 1060 will have.

 

[Breeze265]

What if you want to change the cooler, or maybe use a water-block?

Who in the right mind puts a waterblock on a x60 card, anyways?
It seems like a waste of money. Money that could've been spent on a x70 or x80 card.

Once DX12 is standard and more games are using it, there's almost no need for SLI in my opinion because of DX12's Multi Adapter.

 

[Captain_Tom]

And you know what? Team Red has so thoroughly burned its bridges over the last 5 years that despite a possible few percent win in the 200-dollar-card-arena, people will STILL not trust them, because practically everything AMD has touched since 2010 has turned into a giant failure.

Yep Nvidia's marketing has really paid off - pat yourself on the back.

 

[vanquishedlight]

ok I find this review very false. you don't need a bridge to sli. apparently you never heard of a program called "differentsliauto" and it works great with out bridges. I used it on a couple gtx 750's that don't support sli. and I have used it on gtx 980's and no bridge. and got about the same performance as using a bridge without a 2nd party program. so if a 2nd party program can get great performance with out a bridge, then it's NVidia that is forcing you to buy a bridge you don't need. all NVidia has to do is implement the program that lets you run sli with out a bridge into their drivers, and presto, no more bridge needed. so that whole needing a bridge things is completely false and only a money grab gimmick. and the 1060's even though they don't officially support SLI, you can still make it work just fine by using differentsliauto. if you don't believe me try it your self. the bridge thing is just a money grab.

 

[cdawall]

Got it so add not Nvidia program and etc. Guess what tests aren't done on not nvidia stuff.