Nvidia GTX 1060 officially unveiled for $249

Nvidia has finally unveiled their RX480 killer to go up against AMD’s RX480, competition is tough here with the competitive pricing of the GTX 1060. The GTX 106o is meant to go head to head with AMD’s RX480 for the sub-$300 market.

[2pacalypsenow]

I read it doesn't support SLI

[Timesplitter14]

I have dual 970s in SLI right now and I can safely say it was a huge mistake. SLI is almost always a mistake. It very often doesn't change anything at all, or only increases performance by like 15-20%. It's not worth the money

From now on I'll always just get the best single GPU I can buy for the price I would've paid for two cards in SLI

[2pacalypsenow]

I'm happy with my 1080

[FlyingFoxy]

Agree, only issue is that people using 4k won't have much choice if they want better performance because it's not great.. then again anyone who cares about performance will be going with a high hz monitor and 1080p/1440p anyways.

[Nathan_Hale53]

SLI is made for only a few games, just turn it off, which is very easy, for the others. Some games see massive improvements.

[Kapella]

Im sorry but you have no idea what youre talking about. Ive ran 580s in sli and now 2x 980tis. You gain way over 15-20% (where did you get this number from?) and 90% of games support it.

[FPSFox]

I did SLI back in the 600 series... Never again.

[Pixelart]

That's total BS. I had 980 SLI and got excellent scaling. If anything waiting longer and longer for actual driver profiles is what turned me off.
I suspect you never bothered to update your drivers or were CPU limited.

[Hydrolex]

Nvidia is just destroying AMD in every aspect. They revealed 1070 1080 but didn't mention a thing about 1060 until AMD revealed 480, then they dropped the bomb...good ol strategy

[TXIDarkAvenger]

Too early to say IMO. We don't have benchmarks/reviews for the 1060 and I can assure you this card will not release at $249, more like $300 based on the release of the 1070/1080 cards.

[Eonjay]

Not really. I mean AMD has managed to lower the cost for consumers across the board no matter what vendor you want to purchase from.

[cooksauce]

I will continue to buy AMD just to shut you fanboys up

[hiredhelp]

Nvidia is just destroying AMD in every aspect. They revealed 1070 1080 but didn't mention a thing about 1060 until AMD revealed 480, then they dropped the bomb...good ol strategy.

Amd released there mid range card they've yet release low end or there high end..

[ShadowKnight]

@2pac The 1080 is an awesome card. I am really enjoying it!!

[Cweed]

For me SLI has sucked hard. I picked up a second 980ti about a month before the 1080 was launched. I've had so many problems it's been really annoying. I expected a lot more out of it. Luckily I used EVGA so they are letting me step up to Gtx 1080 superclocked acx 3.0 card for no extra charge. I'd rather have one 1080 than two 980tis in most situations. However I will say that for some games it was excellent. Like battlefield 4, and battlefront both ran at 144 fps at 1440p on my ROG swift. But other games like the division were a crash fest.

[TXIDarkAvenger]

Looks like the leaked specifications were correct.

edit* Well, I mean for the most part.

[GeeksULTD]

Leaked specs also suggested 3GB of VRAM, turns out 6GB of VRAM only

[Movefasta1993]

screw the 480 i'll be getting this instead.

[Erik7357]

20 amd fanboys

[darksky]

What if the 1060 is not faster and is more expensive? The 480 will almost definitely be faster in DX12 and has more VRAM.

[Testfire]

I'm still waiting for the 3rd party Rx 480s to release. With 8 GB vram and better DX12 support Amd is the way to go imo.

[Null]

Not even close. LOL.

[Lamboomington]

I mean, it supposedly has 10-15% better performance, at the same price as the 8gb rx480. Granted the 480 will have 2GB more ram, but in most games I could see a 1060 outperforming it, especially at 1080p, maybe even 1440p. And honestly, I don't think ram will ever be an issue... People who buy a 480 or 1060 aren't that likely to go for 4k gaming.

Couple this with Nvidia's VR offerings (because of SMTP), it could definitely beat the rx480 in a lot of ways.

Granted, it remains to be seen if there will actually be any partner cards available for $250.

[Kenshin_BATT0USAI]

At the performance we are talking here, the extra vram will be meaningless because you won't get the frames you'd want when utilizing all the ram.

[JamesBroski]

So cute how gamers can screw themselves over a brand

[assdan]

How is this a 480 killer? It's probably about the same power as a 480 (About 40-50% weaker than a 1070), and costs $20 more on paper, and we all know that this card is probably going to cost more like 270-300. It also has 2gb less RAM. So in what way is this a 480 killer? Because what I see is a equally strong, slightly more expensive card, with 2gb less RAM.

[WheatBread]

It's a 480 killer because it's a better/faster card.

[cooksauce]

lol

[assdan]

What evidence do we have of this? At most, it's 5-10% stronger.

[Vegamyster]

It's supposedly going to be GTX 980 performance at $250 compared to the R9 480's which is around a GTX 970.

https://www.youtube.com/wat...

[cooksauce]

supposedly...

[Vegamyster]

@cooksauce

Well Nvidia said the GTX 1070 was going to offer Titan X performance and it did so 980 performance that they're claiming from the 1060 wouldn't be surprising.

[assdan]

Based on it's specs in comparison to the 1070, it should be MAYBE a little stronger, but it looks like they're going to trade blows with each other. Maybe I'm wrong, but I don't know why it wouldn't scale approximately linearly with other cards in the line.

[kevnb]

lets be honest with ourselves, amd has to really completely blow nvidia away to win in any price range. the nvidia brand is much, much stronger thanks to previous experience and word of mouth.

[assdan]

Despite the fact that AMD has been a better option at most price points for the past 5 years.

[DarkZane]

I have a 770 and wanted to upgraded to 1070, but I think I will wait for the 1170 and 1180 coming next year and get a 1170 since they have more memory and have HBM2 memory.

[Lon3wolf]

Good idea, I was hoping to change up from my 970 but 1070 is priced too high (for my budget) and the 480/1060 offer hardly any benefit. If the 11 series (and what ever AMD may release) is only next year I can wait.

[mochachino]

Very interested to see how it performs in DX12 games.

[Ravenor]

Considering the 1080 is nearly $1000 CAD, I'll have to see the price to believe it. Part of the price hike is our dollar, but the early adopter mark up is insane. 1060 is going to be 350 CAD, I can almost guarantee it.

[ARESWARLORD]

Or more brother I wouldn't doubt if you see custom ones pushing the 400 Mark

[FlameWater]

SLI is like a cd player, it's a little outdated but people still use it

[SonyWarrior]

I was going to buy the rx480 but forget that IM GETTING THIS BEAST GTX 1060

[kevinsheeks]

How much better is this than my gtx 970 ftw

[CryofSilence]

Its performance is reportedly on par with a 980, and I'm inclined to believe it. NVidia advertised that the 1070 would get Titan X-like performance, and it actually outdid the Titan X in the majority of the benchmarks. If true, this is an all around impressive card for the price.

For comparison, the RX480 is about equivalent--more or less--to a 970 for $200-240.

Here are some benchmarks of both the 970 and 980.
http://www.extremetech.com/...

[Bobafret]

Being lazy, but how does this card compare to a gtx970?

[killer876]

Google it

[Testfire]

Better than the 970, effectively killed it.

[CryofSilence]

http://www.extremetech.com/...

10-20% more powerful if it is as powerful as a 980 as advertised.

[Bobafret]

Thanks, was at work didn't have the time. If I am going with a single card I feel I may go with the 1070 instead.

[ARESWARLORD]

I would definitely say go with the 1070 if you can afford it that's what I did I just saved up for a while and sold my old card. I game at 1080p but I game on a hundred and twenty inch projector screen so I need to max out all settings that I can to have a nice visual appeal for me and I will say some games use eighty to ninety percent of the 1070 processor. And that's at 60 frames a second so the GTX 1070 is an excellent 1080p video card I know it can go higher but if you want to Max things at 1080p you can't go wrong with it

[masterfox]

not bad at all maybe finally will upgrade my gaming rig, can this be the return of the days of 8800 GTX & 560ti era ?, this cards were awesome price/performance wise, you could literally played everything on max settings.

[ARESWARLORD]

8800 GT was an excellent card. I think the new card should be pretty good in my opinion the RX 480 is also very good either one will be excellent for 1080p

[Orionsangel]

So does it really need only 120 watts to run? That means if you have just 300 watts you can run this card? I only have 450 watts.

[ARESWARLORD]

No 120 Watts means that's what the card itself will draw from your PCI Express Bus and you're power connector. with a 450 watt power supply if your running lights a solid state drive or regular Drive possibly two maybe a CD-ROM drive dvd-rom drive you'll be more than fine. as long as you're power supplies a decent make not some Chinese piece of garbage

[Orionsangel]

I have a 660 card. Should I upgrade to the 1060 if I'm looking for a budget card? Will I see a big difference?

[ARESWARLORD]

You would see a huge difference I believe the 660 was roughly on par with the GTX 570 you could go with the GTX 1060 or an AMD RX 480. Either would give you a huge difference in performance. Make sure you choose an after-market card non-reference with a nice overclock on it and go for one that gives you a good warranty and basically at this point grab whatever one's cheaper

[Erik7357]

Lol, as soon as AMD announces something cool nvidia just announces something right after they announce their thing and just slaps them in the face lol.

[Tzuno]

Those prices, pff overpriced as fk.