Rumor, GTX1060 Specs, Performance and Discussion

[RejZoR]

No, keeping them the same at least. But people report heavy performance drops on older cards using new drivers. Never heard of that with Radeons...

Would be nice if someone evaluated this using GTX 480 for example with most mature driver from that era and one from today that still supports it and observe the performance. For both, AMD and NVIDIA...

 

[the54thvoid]

No, keeping them the same at least. But people report heavy performance drops on older cards using new drivers. Never heard of that with Radeons...

Would be nice if someone evaluated this using GTX 480 for example with most mature driver from that era and one from today that still supports it and observe the performance. For both, AMD and NVIDIA...

You'd have to ask someone like @W1zzard who has access to lots of older cards so he can test on the same cpu rig. I'm sure older legacy drivers could be found somewhere. But I'm saying it's a non issue. It's been well touted that Nvidia have very good optimisation on DX11/10/9 whereas the GCN arch suffered a bit and wasn't used to it's fullest. Again, DX12 is now where Nvidia struggle depending on the game. GCN can adapt very flexibly to queue sizes with Async but Nvidia need to work on the drivers to allocate things more (I believe).

 

[FordGT90Concept]

GCN was designed for the idea of DX12 (asynchronous, close to the metal, highly parallel and flexible) where Maxwell/Pascal were designed specifically for DX11 and CUDA.

As far as I know, AMD's drivers only expose the ACEs; the ACEs do the work. The driver side in AMD for Mantle, DX12, and Vulcan is very minimal. Developers are communicating with the hardware, hence the performance.

 

[HD64G]

I have personally seen the 480's fly off the shelf. So I don't know where you are talking about them not selling.

Especiallly since 1060 will just get a paper launch until maybe late August real availability...

 

[medi01]

Quantum Break doesn't support DirectX 11 so there's no reference.

So what? 480 beats 980 at it is my point, why should there be DX11 version?

 

[the54thvoid]

So what? 480 beats 980 at it is my point, why should there be DX11 version?

Plenty of people still use W7.....

 

[rtwjunkie]

Plenty of people still use W7.....

Not to mention, most games will continue to be made in not-DX12 for quite some time as well. It makes sense to allow people DX11 tests to reference and compare cards. All games not-DX12 won't magically disappear.

 

[john_]

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 to cost 249/299 USD | VideoCardz.com

Only 6GB version. The expensive is the Founders Edition of course, because Nvidia thinks that people loved the FE of 1070 and 1080.

Availability at 19 July. Or at least Nvidia hopes to have a few available that day.

And in case you don't like the FE as much as Nvidia thinks you are

Gigabyte announces GeForce GTX 1060 G1 GAMING | VideoCardz.com

 

[medi01]

I wonder, what will happen first, 480 taking over 1060 performance, or 1060 price dropping to "non Founder" price.

Plenty of people still use W7.....

Fine, but what does that have to do with "having no reference"?
You shouldn't need a reference to see 480 beats 980 in that game.

People thought it was only two games when 480 shines, apparently there are more.

It would be interesting to see how 1060 will behave in those.

I also wonder what influence XBone will have and whether what it has is rather close to DX12 or not.
CGN looks to do very well with Vulkan as well. (which is what Sony is using?)

 

[ViperXTR]

299 USD,

That would be 350-400 USD here, makes the 1070 a better deal when the prices are dropping already here

 

[RejZoR]

AMD should launch RX480 Overpriced Edition at $300 just to mock NVIDIA...

 

[Nergal]

lol wut?

They could pull that stunt with the 1070&1080 because there was no competition.
Whilst you can buy Rx480´s for 199 and 249; you will never ever ever find a 1060 for 249.
AIB´s will cost more; as does the FE. So that 249 they promote is...rubbish?

That aside, I applaud NVIDIA to take it on directly by pricing. I guess they also saw that marketing-wise they had no real other choice (why else push forward the release date by months)

Now we will have to see if NVIDIA delivers slower speed for the same money; or same/better speed for the same money (which would prove their devious tactic of delaying the release by months intentionally to get the 1070 sales up)

If performance is about the same; I will most likely be upgrading my 6850 to the Rx480

 

[Fluffmeister]

Seems AMD left the door open with the less than stella 480 launch, a card slower and more power hungry than many had wet dreams about. The damage control over the PCI slot power draw was less than ideal too.

 

[ZeppMan217]

Seeing how ref 8GB RX480 are floating around $250, non-ref 8GB RX480 should be under $300. If non-ref 6GB 1060 is somewhere around $325 I think it's a win-win situation for everyone.

 

[mrthanhnguyen]

The reason I use nvidia is shadowplay and the driver.

 

[gasolina]

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 to cost 249/299 USD | VideoCardz.com

Only 6GB version. The expensive is the Founders Edition of course, because Nvidia thinks that people loved the FE of 1070 and 1080.

Availability at 19 July. Or at least Nvidia hopes to have a few available that day.

And in case you don't like the FE as much as Nvidia thinks you are

Gigabyte announces GeForce GTX 1060 G1 GAMING | VideoCardz.com

does it look like they can SLI ???

 

[ZeppMan217]

does it look like they can SLI ???

Supposedly no SLI for the 3GB version.

 

[gasolina]

Supposedly no SLI for the 3GB version.

i mean the gigabyte gaming look like they have SLI options

 

[rtwjunkie]

i mean the gigabyte gaming look like they have SLI options

There are no SLI fingers in that pic, and the linked article doesn't mention it either.

 

[GhostRyder]

Nvidia only shows so far a 6gb version of the card. Also they show no SLI support period for the card so it seems that is how its going to be.

 

[mrthanhnguyen]

i mean the gigabyte gaming look like they have SLI options

hey gasolina, will you have a card a week before a release? Can you show some benchmark of it when you have a card.

 

[gasolina]

Nvidia only shows so far a 6gb version of the card. Also they show no SLI support period for the card so it seems that is how its going to be.

There are no SLI fingers in that pic, and the linked article doesn't mention it either.

i find the picture here that it does sp SLI, kinda strange :-??
http://wccftech.com/inno3d-reveals-two-non-reference-gtx-1060-gpus/

 

[john_]

i find the picture here that it does sp SLI, kinda strange :-??
http://wccftech.com/inno3d-reveals-two-non-reference-gtx-1060-gpus/

That's a picture from probably iChill 1070, not 1060.They mixed the pictures of this card with other custom 1060 models.
1060 does NOT support SLI.

Have a look here
Inno3D GeForce GTX 1060 iChill X3 and GAMING OC detailed | VideoCardz.com
in the comment section

WhyCry VideoCardz.com i Erid • 7 hours ago I think they were just using iChill 1070 pics here, so I removed them to avoid confusion.
Other sites still report this as 1060.

 

[Shou Miko]

Well this card looks like a 1080p killer more than AMD's RX480 and if Nvidia can keep the price down and stock up it would be the best for 1080p when it comes out after all the "hype" and wishes for the RX480, personally I was hoping to see the RX480 to be a 1440p card but it's 1080p instead so I am strongly considering the GTX 1070 now as my upgrade since I can't afford a GTX 1080.

 

[truth teller]

this is supposed to be an oced 6gb 1060 vs an rx480 (at least thats what is mentioned on the driver descriptors)
http://www.3dmark.com/compare/fs/9202637/fs/9188962

pretty weak if this turns out to be true, unless the price is incredibly slashed from the one on the announcement