NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

[eddman]

Absolutely no point in buying the FE edition. No sane person should. On the other hand, the $249 MSRP for non-FE variants is quite reasonable, given its performance and some other characteristics.

The problem is that even though there are some 1060s listed at $249 MSRP, like the basic EVGA 1060, they will be in a very short supply/high demand situation, which means that for the first month or two (maybe longer) the cards will probably sell at a range of $270-300. I suppose it'd be wiser for budget conscious buyers to wait a while before jumping in.

One point that is still not exactly clear is the DX12 performance situation. It's kind of hard to draw a clear picture from the handful of titles that are out there at the moment. 1060 wins in tomb raider, loses badly in hitman (which is kind of expected given that it's slower in DX11 too), and sort of ties in AoS and TW:WH. Perhaps when battlefield 1 and deus ex arrive we might have a better understanding.

 

[the54thvoid]

I wonder how much Nvidia pays this website every time they launch a GPU.

You know where the door is. Please don't let me hit you with it when you leave.

As for availability and pricing in the UK.

 

[Frick]

Absolutely no point in buying the FE edition. No sane person should. On the other hand, the $249 MSRP for non-FE variants is quite reasonable, given its performance and some other characteristics.

FE is definitely the new "reference". I've not seen a single GTX 1080/1070 at the lower price yet, they're all around FE levels.

 

[yogurt_21]

I agree that Wizz ain't biased, but at stock vs. stock (ref vs. ref) there is a $100 difference too.

60$ based on the cards he reviewed. He was never sent a 4GB variant and when he bought one, it turned out to be an 8GB card with half the memory disabled. So we're still waiting on actual 4GB cards to launch.


That being said 60$ is like 4 games on steam sale or 1 AAA title at full price. So there is that.

I agree the 4GB 480 offers the better bang for the buck. But a few lucky people got their 1060's at the actual msrp of 249 before they sold out. I doubt any of them regret it now or will ever in the future. Good on the manufacturers for not gouging as much with this round.

 

[nem..]

visual quality worst in nvidia old tricks get back.

 

[dwade]

Edit: NM. GTX 1060 gets beaten by stock 480 in DX12 & Vulkan games. DX11 is irrelevant now, and many upcoming games support DX12. No point buying a new GPU based on DX11.

Source: HARDOCP

 

[silkstone]

60$ based on the cards he reviewed. He was never sent a 4GB variant and when he bought one, it turned out to be an 8GB card with half the memory disabled. So we're still waiting on actual 4GB cards to launch.


That being said 60$ is like 4 games on steam sale or 1 AAA title at full price. So there is that.

I agree the 4GB 480 offers the better bang for the buck. But a few lucky people got their 1060's at the actual msrp of 249 before they sold out. I doubt any of them regret it now or will ever in the future. Good on the manufacturers for not gouging as much with this round.

$60 still makes a difference to a lot of people and from the reviews I've seen the 8gb and 4gb 480 are essentially the same at resolutions that matter.

 

[dlgh7]

GTX 1060 goes for $249.99 guys. I bought one from Newegg. This isn't the same 1070/1080 fiasco anymore. RX480 just got its butt kicked.

Not really if you visit some sites that reviewed games using Vulkan or where properly programmed for DX12 it showed the GTX 1060 getting burned. AMD has had an upper hand for DX12 for a while and seeing as Microsoft is pushing DX12 really hard and most of the biggest games coming out in the future are using it, it is going to be interesting to see if DX12 continues to favor AMD. Now some games like Rise of the Tomb Raider use DX12 but don't seem to be fully utilizing it and some of those games do favor Nvidia, but one review I read of this card on DX11 vs DX12 of Rise of the Tomb Raider only showed a 1fps difference increase moving from DX11 to DX12 which really shows how little DX12 is being utilized in Rise of the Tomb Raider.

 

[Captain_Tom]

60$ based on the cards he reviewed. He was never sent a 4GB variant and when he bought one, it turned out to be an 8GB card with half the memory disabled. So we're still waiting on actual 4GB cards to launch.


That being said 60$ is like 4 games on steam sale or 1 AAA title at full price. So there is that.

I agree the 4GB 480 offers the better bang for the buck. But a few lucky people got their 1060's at the actual msrp of 249 before they sold out. I doubt any of them regret it now or will ever in the future. Good on the manufacturers for not gouging as much with this round.

Haha look at Doom! That is the future of Nvidia's products. BF1 will support DX12 and the 1060 will be as strong or more likely weaker than the cheaper 480!

 

[xkm1948]

So only one DX12 title? No DOOM with Vulkan? No other DX12 titles? A whole lot of DX11 titles. I am skeptical of this review.

 

[nem..]

So only one DX12 title? No DOOM with Vulkan? No other DX12 titles? A whole lot of DX11 titles. I am skeptical of this review.

im not surprized this review are biased just see the 970 always over th rx480 , just be logic this is not the reality.

 

[terroralpha]

no doom benches?

i understand that benching older cards all over for openGL vs vulkan is a pain, but you guys didn't have to retest all the cards. just the gtx 10xx series and rx480 would have been fine. plus maybe a gtx 970 and 390.

BF3, crysis 3 and black ops are a total waste of time to bench. no one really plays those anymore and the results fall in line with other dx11 titles anyway

 

[okidna]

AMD marketing seems to hit the nail in the head, now everybody wants to play DOOM and Total War : Warhammer!!

 

[xkm1948]

NVidia's official guide for 1060 review. Just leaving it here.

http://videocardz.com/62138/nvidia-geforce-gtx-1060-reviewers-guide-leaked

 

[silkstone]

AMD marketing seems to hit the nail in the head, now everybody wants to play DOOM and Total War : Warhammer!!

I do want to play TWW, but the fps on those kind of games matters little to me. I'm more interested in how the latest Deus Ex will perform.

 

[PerfectWave]

"http://videocardz.com/62138/nvidia-geforce-gtx-1060-reviewers-guide-leaked" at final page they tested AMD cards with old 16.6.2 drivers.... seriously XD

 

[Shatun_Bear]

AMD marketing seems to hit the nail in the head, now everybody wants to play DOOM and Total War : Warhammer!!

What a load of nonsense. How about its because these are the latest big PC releases, no? I'd rather see benches of these games than ancient stuff like BF3 or Bioshock: Infinite (in another review).

 

[terroralpha]

AMD marketing seems to hit the nail in the head, now everybody wants to play DOOM and Total War : Warhammer!!

it's not just about playing doom you stupid, blind fangirl. this is about buying for the future. DX11 was great while it lasted, but its' days are over. RX480 is almost as fast as a GTX 1070 in doom running on vulkan but has better texture quality. THAT'S the problem. and since both major consoles run AMD hardware and will be running new games on vulkan, and since 99% of PC releases are just supped up console ports, you can bet your ass that any game that nvidia doesn't pay for will run on vulkan on PC as well

personally, i have no interest in buying a 1060, or even a 1070 or 1080, since i have a super fast 980 ti. but i will be upgrading in the future to something like a 1080 ti or the successor of the fury x. if nvidia doesn't stop with the suckage, i will be switching teams.

 

[$ReaPeR$]

the only one worth buying here in Greece is the asus turbo one which will be available August 16th, the cheapest 480 is available July 21. dont know about the quality of the asus turbo edition though..

 

[okidna]

What a load of nonsense. How about its because these are the latest big PC releases, no? I'd rather see benches of these games than ancient stuff like BF3 or Bioshock: Infinite (in another review).

It's not a nonsense at all. Let me explain this to you because I wrote that mainly from my own experience...

I don't have those 2 specific titles because it's expensive and because I don't even like most of FPS game (especially a "jumpy"/scary/in-your-face kind of FPS game ) or Total War game BUT since reading on how DX12 and Vulkan improve these 2 games I'm super curious to test both games and comparing my 2 different cards in those game using many APIs (DX12, DX11, and Vulkan on Doom) to the point that I went to my friend house to test my cards because he has DOOM on his Steam account (no time to wait because of crappy bandwidth to download the demo if you ask "why don't you just download the demo?").

That's why wrote that, AMD marketing and development push on DirectX 12/Mantle/Vulkan is beginning to bear a fruit and that's good for them and for us.

it's not just about playing doom you stupid, blind fangirl..

Thank you, but I'm sure I'm a man and not blind (only myopia).
And yes I think I'm not that bright because it takes me more than 3 years (still ongoing ) to finish my doctorate dissertation.

 

[TheoneandonlyMrK]

FE is definitely the new "reference". I've not seen a single GTX 1080/1070 at the lower price yet, they're all around FE levels.

Surprisingly eh.
Go Nvidias marketing and pr team ,they truly are the men ,they could sell Ryan Reynolds as the next Spider-Man I swear.

 

[Frick]

Surprisingly eh.
Go Nvidias marketing and pr team ,they truly are the men ,they could sell Ryan Reynolds as the next Spider-Man I swear.

The only problem there is age. He tackled Deadpool really well.

 

[TheoneandonlyMrK]

The only problem there is age. He tackled Deadpool really well.

Wrong guy imho totally wrong ,deadpool is the only job he Didnt f up.

 

[Tsukiyomi91]

annnnnddd we have disgruntled folks (forumers mind u) who have not owned the 1060 FE & bashes it like AMD has no 2morrow... for $50 or so more over the RX480 8GB model. Eating less than 130W on max took me by surprise, considering this is a mid-range Pascal chip, a GP106. AMD has gotten it's ass whooped again by Nvidia. BTW, FE variants of the 1060 over here is selling at around MYR1500 with tax, which is quite acceptable & it's going to be a recommended card for rigs around MYR4k & above without skimping out on the good stuff. Non-FE version is sitting exactly where the GTX760 was at few years ago: sub-$250 range.

 

[ensabrenoir]

.....yes direct x 12 will soon be all the thing but for now...how many x12 games do we have that people want? All this .....this is the future thing reminds me of something else Amd did for the "future" that was obsolete by the time the actual "future" got here.(there may still be a patch!!!!) By the time X 12 titles are common both companies will have newer architectures out. Both companies take different paths to the same end.....(gsync / freesync) I remember the same argument for Amd's advantage over Nvdia in gpu mining too. We all see the relevance of that now. When its time (something new/different always popping up) Nvdia will have an answer(maybe a patch ). ....Oh yeah a rant won't be a rant without a car analogy....hybrid and electric cars are and will be the future....but as for now.......