Wait it out, there are some AIB 480 cards launching in next week or two, including the Powercolor Devil, Sapphire Nitro, Gigabyte G1 you mentioned and others possibly. Powercolor's boost speed is 1400mhz, Sapphire would also OC well and claimed their cards are hitting 1500mhz. Best case scenario, you would get a card that does 15%-30% better than 1060 in DX12, and about the same performance as 1060 in DX11. Worst case scenario, you waste 2-3 weeks at most, and buy a 1060 anyways.I'm not sure if I should go with a RX 480 or a GTX 1060, because I saw that 480 G1 card can reach a clock speed of 1450MHz.
Oh and please get your international prices under control.Still can't wrap my head around how 1060 is good bit cheaper than RX480!
Do you think custom RX 480 will be cheap like the reference though? It seems like AMD really cut corners with the reference cooler to hit those low price points.
I guess back in the real world, people think the GTX 1060 is a compelling product.
From what I understand Nvidia & their AIB partners have much tighter control over the retail channel here, India being a key market going forward; so the majority of the sellers here won't be able to gouge customers unless the former allows it explicitly, or implicity, but also the fact that there's no major r(e)tailer who can set price on their own like a Newegg or Amazon.Well, you need to write letters to your Parliament/Saima/EU or whatever that sets tariffs on electronics for your country.
Though it is curious that two companies in the exact same sector have different costs like that. I wonder if it has to do with location of manufacturing for each and/or contracts that nVidia has vs AMD for selling products within your country? I dunno, but it's not really something that marketing or sales can directly and easily control from country to country.
Picked up the GA-1060 Windforce for $250 today at Microcenter. Good performance @ 1080 for my nephews. Time to retire my aging HD 5870 2GB they've been enjoying.
I guess back in the real world, people think the GTX 1060 is a compelling product.
The cursory look at performance I've taken on the rx480 and gtx1060 would probably put the rx480 at 0-5% faster in dx11 and 10-30%(maybe more) in dx12 and vulkan when both are overclocked.Wait it out, there are some AIB 480 cards launching in next week or two, including the Powercolor Devil, Sapphire Nitro, Gigabyte G1 you mentioned and others possibly. Powercolor's boost speed is 1400mhz, Sapphire would also OC well and claimed their cards are hitting 1500mhz. Best case scenario, you would get a card that does 15%-30% better than 1060 in DX12, and about the same performance as 1060 in DX11. Worst case scenario, you waste 2-3 weeks at most, and buy a 1060 anyways.
I'll post mine too
Cheapest GTX 960 - 15000
Cheapest GTX 970 - 24000
Cheapest GTX 1060- 23000
Cheapest RX 480 4gb - 23000
Cheapest RX 480 8gb - 27000
I was about to order an EVGA 1060 from Amazon. It was out of stock but it would ship to me as soon as it came in stock. Then I suddenly noticed I had a $30 Amazon gift card sitting in my account. Ended up saying screw it, let's go big and ordered a 1070. Sigh. It's in stock, too.
My wife is going to kill me.
Picked up the GA-1060 Windforce for $250 today at Microcenter. Good performance @ 1080 for my nephews. Time to retire my aging HD 5870 2GB they've been enjoying.
With the current Humble Bundle deal, snagging them a few games too. Going to be a fun weekend.
Very similar situation here, GTX 1060 is a tad cheaper than the slower / less efficient alternative.
Stop spewing FUD. That's a factual lie, what's the point of you trying to deceive people?
You can buy a nice custom GTX 1060 (a bit faster than Founder's Edition) for less than the terrible reference RX 480 8GB in some countries right now.
You can buy a nice custom GTX 1060 (a bit faster than Founder's Edition) for less than the terrible reference RX 480 8GB in some countries right now.
Thats nice! Why dont you go for it? Sure a good purchase if you intend to play years old games.
You can buy a nice custom GTX 1060 (a bit faster than Founder's Edition) for less than the terrible reference RX 480 8GB in some countries right now.
Indeed, it's even a bit cheaper than 1070.You can buy a nice custom GTX 1060 (a bit faster than Founder's Edition) for less than the terrible reference RX 480 8GB in some countries right now.
Ok so can you give me a list of countries that this is the case?
You said "here" without mentioning you're not in the US, even though this is a forum dominated by US residents and a site owned and hosted in the US.
The Nvidia GTX 1060, which is the smallest Pascal-based graphics card, is now available in India with a starting price of Rs 22,999. It was announced on July 10, and will be available in India starting tomorrow. The GTX 1060 features 1,280 CUDA cores, 6GB of GDDR5 VRAM (8GBPS), VRWorks, and Ansel. Nvidia claims that the GTX 1060 is twice as power efficient and as powerful as the GTX 980.
The The Zotac GTX 1060 Mini will be available for Rs 22,999 starting July 19, while the Zotac GTX 1060 AMP Edition will be available for Rs 24,999. The GTX 1060 competes with AMD RX 480, which is available for Rs 27,999 in India. Buyers can expect to play all the high-end games at 1080p resolution and a frame rate of 60fps using the Nvidia GTX 1060 graphics card.
That's going to be quite a bit of a jump.
Indeed, it's even a bit cheaper than 1070.
That's the problem when you say "some countries"... it's got that marketing "je ne sais quoi".
Indeed, having the faster and more efficient card (overall) today according to dozens of reviews is certainly a good deal, that's why they're flying off the shelves.
You don't need to recognize the currency, pricing is linear all around the world, and I gave you a clear reference on the right. And of course this is an isolated case, with prices jacked up due to low supply, but my point is ever more clear: making claims about "some countries" and "lower prices" is of little help to define the overall situation.I mean if I don't even recognize the currency they are quoting I'd say its a pretty isolated case. Maybe we should stick to USD/British Pound/Euro/CAD countries in terms of general discussions.
No one ever doubted that their available stock would sell extremely well. It is a good card, just poorly priced, imo. Even so, it will continue to sell well and sell out for some time at even worse prices.
I doubt many of the owners would be disappointed by diminishing performance from this card over the next year with newer games because they simply won't be paying attention to what else is going on.
It is good to be the King.