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GeForce GTX 1060 announced - July 19, 6GB, $249 MSRP/$299 Founder's
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neurosisxeno
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Digital Foundries discovered that Sandy Bridge i5's are starting to bottleneck 1070's and higher in modern titles. Odds are a SB i7 would have less problems depending on the title, but it's safe to say you'd want IVB or newer i5's with most GPU's. That being said, the 1060 should be fine with most i5's and probably plenty alright with many i3's.
dr_rus
Member
Looks like most prices will be between $250 and $300 but there will be some OC editions which will go higher than $300 even. (US only obviously, EU is a different story.)
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Edit: http://videocardz.com/62372/msi-geforce-gtx-1060-6gtoc-pictured
Ashes implement mGPU via DX12 which doesn't need driver or device level SLI support. You can use several cards in DX12 (and VK probably, not sure) without any SLI bridge or even SLI driver support. Having them all installed in the same system is enough.
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Edit: http://videocardz.com/62372/msi-geforce-gtx-1060-6gtoc-pictured
neurosisxeno
Member
Pretty sure I've settled on getting a 1060 assuming there are no (major) issues with them. My GTX 670 has served me well but I think it's time to upgrade and the 1060 seems like a good amount of bang for the buck.
SomedayTheFire
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Wonder how much the Gaming version will be.
Tbh, I feel that my 3570k @ 4.5 may be bottle necking me. My benchmarks on my g1 1080 are a bit lower than expected. Gonna grab a new 170 board and a 6600k with some high speed ram.
Memorabilia
Member
Any chance we'll see a low profile 1060 or are we going to have to wait for the 1050 for that?
I managed to finagle good deals on a ref RX 480 and a GTX 1070 FE for my two primary systems...so will test 'em out on all my rigs and decide whether to keep one or both...or return and wait for AIB models if I don't like the noise/heat profiles.
Anywho, with that out of the way, my next upgrade is a good low profile GPU to upgrade my secondary HTPC's 750Ti to something more capable. I'm guessing the RX 470 won't go LP, so the best we're looking at this gen will be the 1050 or RX 460...
I managed to finagle good deals on a ref RX 480 and a GTX 1070 FE for my two primary systems...so will test 'em out on all my rigs and decide whether to keep one or both...or return and wait for AIB models if I don't like the noise/heat profiles.
Anywho, with that out of the way, my next upgrade is a good low profile GPU to upgrade my secondary HTPC's 750Ti to something more capable. I'm guessing the RX 470 won't go LP, so the best we're looking at this gen will be the 1050 or RX 460...
Coulomb_Barrier
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That MSI 6GTOC looks cheap and barebones hence $250 price. And I'm hearing from a PC Gamer guy most of the partner cards will be widely available in late August only which is frustrating if true.
There is a mini version from Zotac maybe you can look at that
SmartWaffles
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If you meant mini, there are, not sure whether there are any half height cards out there if that's what you want.
It looks fine to me, it still has two fans and two heatpipes, plus it's smaller than the other cards. 120W cards don't need foot-long triple-slot heatsinks with 3 fans, like some of the more ridiculous designs.
Coulomb_Barrier
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blastprocessor
The Amiga Brotherhood
Where are the blower cards??
That's probably just going to be the Nvidia exclusive Founder's Edition.
Type_Raver
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Tell me more about this 20% off ebay voucher please. Fellow aussie here also feeling the sting!
roadrunn3r
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Italy prices (from reddit):
I hope this is a bad joke. I could get a 970 when it came out for less than that if I remember correctly.
I hope this is a bad joke. I could get a 970 when it came out for less than that if I remember correctly.
Italy prices (from reddit):
I hope this is a bad joke. I could get a 970 when it came out for less than that if I remember correctly.
350 to 399? lol
Nope not gonna pay that. I could not see myself paying more than 320 for an overclocked one.
neurosisxeno
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That could very well be. IVB isn't much of an IPC bump over SB, and I think DF's tests were on decently OCed SB and IVB CPU's, I can't quite remember but I want to say between 4.2 and 4.5 GHz. I only paid attention to the SB results because I'm using a 2500k still--plan on upgrading soon, but my GPU needs to be replaced first.
SomedayTheFire
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Not a chance I'll be paying that lolItaly prices (from reddit):
I hope this is a bad joke. I could get a 970 when it came out for less than that if I remember correctly.
y ram?
As far as the bottleneck... is it? when you looks at GPU vs CPU usage in benches ..is it?
basically..
if(cpuUsage===100% && gpuUsage <100%)
bttlnckd
Italy prices (from reddit):
I hope this is a bad joke. I could get a 970 when it came out for less than that if I remember correctly.
Yeesh, how ridiculous.
They're really taking advantage of the popularity the 970 and 980s got them.
Here ya go brother:
https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/257684
CTEC20 at selected retailers. I checked earlier today and no-one was slinging 1060s, but there are plenty of other cards kicking around (and 6600ks etc) that may take your fancy. The code runs for a few more days, so who knows if the 106 will make an appearance?
Italy prices (from reddit):
I hope this is a bad joke. I could get a 970 when it came out for less than that if I remember correctly.
Yeah no way.
At those prices I'd rather get a 1070
Brewster's Wallet
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If they're anything like that here, I'm straight back to a AIB RX480.
The Reference 480 I had ran things great but card ran super hot and very loud. Happy to get a custom RX480.
The Reference 480 I had ran things great but card ran super hot and very loud. Happy to get a custom RX480.
Haha. Okay. Just saw the RX480 price.Italy prices (from reddit):
I hope this is a bad joke. I could get a 970 when it came out for less than that if I remember correctly.
You say that as if it's a disadvantage.
Also, two heatpipes should be plenty for a 120W card. And for these short PCBs a backplate is also more of a visual gimmick than anything of real engineering significance.
Yeah you could put 60€ on top of that 399 one and get a standard 1070. Which I think is also too much for the 1070, but I'd rather do that.
Here in Germany you can get a normal 8GB 480 for 269€.
Some Korean review: http://www.hkepc.com/14257/全新GP106繪圖核心_NVIDIA_GeForce_GTX_1060登場/page/7#view looks like 5-10% faster then RX 480 in 1440p/4k
Bl@de
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Italy prices (from reddit):
I hope this is a bad joke. I could get a 970 when it came out for less than that if I remember correctly.
Lol, more expensive than my 980 ti
Coulomb_Barrier
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I wouldn't jump to conclusions that those are the prices based on just one listing. They may be cheaper we'll have to wait and see.
Small quibbles I know but I do actually want a card with red or white LEDs on the side as I've got a Corsair Air 540 and a big arse window to er...show off my components inside.
Small quibbles I know but I do actually want a card with red or white LEDs on the side as I've got a Corsair Air 540 and a big arse window to er...show off my components inside.
Mithos
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Italy prices (from reddit):
I hope this is a bad joke. I could get a 970 when it came out for less than that if I remember correctly.
Dear law-enforcement, here there will be drugs involved.
That's a site from Hong Kong.
Anyway, looking at that I don't know if the 1060 is worth it over the 480. I do wanna see overlcocked versions of both though.
Coulomb_Barrier
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I don't know why you'd bench this at 1440p and 4K and not 1440p and 1080p.
Me neither, but that's what we have right now. Not long and we should get some better data.
Are you sure you want that? I expect the gap to a RX480 to be measurably larger at 1080p than at 4k.
Coulomb_Barrier
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I dunno isn't it a case of higher ROPs and lower memory bandwidth on 1060 versus the reverse on 480, and how that would tell at higher resolutions.
Regginator
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I'm relatively new to PC gaming, ~3 years, and I bought a pre-owned 280X that served me well (and still does), but I was meaning to upgrade, and there's a big difference between the suggested retail prices versus actual prices. Has this always been the case? I know, supply and demand, yadda yadda, but can't they really not up their supply? Seems so weird.
Could be. I was thinking more of the fact that most games tested are still DX11, and that RX480 will run into some degree of CPU limitation in at least some of them at 1080p, at least if a site isn't testing with a very fast/OC'd CPU.
roadrunn3r
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The only logical explanation would be that retailer is price gouging and that prices will be a bit lower than that in other parts of EU like Germany, we'll know exactly what in less than 2h from now. (NDA should lift at 9am ET/ 3pm CEST right?)
I mean I have been out of PC gaming for a while, but when I was still very active (around Doom 3) it was definitely not like this. In fact looking around it was easy to find cards for cheaper than they were advertised as in magazines.
dr_rus
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Reviews thread: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1248789
It's not going to be €400. Even in those pre-release Italian prices from a single shop the cheapest is more like €350. I assume that post-launch in countries where you are actually going to buy hardware it will dip around or below €300.
I mean, that same listing shows an RX480 at €320.
Italy prices (from reddit):
I hope this is a bad joke. I could get a 970 when it came out for less than that if I remember correctly.
As expected, as the 1070 is like 550 on amazon.fr
Now I'm definitely gonna go RX480 for my VR setup.
Sad Affleck
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You could buy an 8800gt at launch for 230 ;_;
ISee
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Prices were always higher for most 'good' custom' designs for the first couple of months, because they were practically sold out for a very long time.
But this gen. prices are more out of control then before. Mostly because of Nvidias Founders Edition BS and the fact that they control a huge chunk of the market and started to charge premium because AMD has nothing that can challenge them in the top performance tier.
So much for AMD's endeavor in making the mid-range affordable for the masses.
Always lies.