Will it actually be available, though? Nvidia still hasn't nearly caught up with demand for the 1070 and 1080. Considering that they're clearly supply-constrained at this time, wouldn't it make sense for them to focus on the GP104 parts with (presumably) higher profit margins, instead of competing with P10 in the sub-$300 range?
How true, I agree 100%.As I recall its something like 86% of the entire GPU market is sub-$300. So while there is less profit in lower end cards, you sell WAY more of them. And its clear that the 1070/1080 are not selling in any sort of high numbers. Sure they sell out of stock fast, but stock is so limited that the overall numbers are still low.
With the 1060 being rumored to be sub-200mm/sq, they will be able to get a lot more of them per wafer, so quantities should be much higher.
NVIDIA just moved forward the release of Geforce GTX 1060 by a month. It will start selling in the very near future. More tomorrow!
Seeing that AMD is ready to release its new Polaris-based Radeon RX 480 graphics card soon and company vice president Raja Koduri steadily managing the Radeon graphics technology business, Nvidia has decided to start selling its GeForce GTX 1060 products, which were originally set to launch in August, in the near future to defend from the competition. With the competition between the next-generation graphics cards shifting forward, graphics card players have turned to focus on preparing for new products.
...With AMD aggressively pushing into the mid-range and mainstream sectors, Nvidia has moved forward the releases of GeForce GTX 1060 products by a month and is likely to reduce their prices to make them more competitive.
Since channels still have many GeForce GTX 960/950 graphics card inventory, Nvidia's sudden change of plans also forced graphics card players to turn to focus on new products instead of clearing inventory.
BenchLife said:As for the GeForce GTX 1060 listing price, of course, the sources also mentioned, but at this stage is for reference only.
DigiTimes said:With AMD aggressively pushing into the mid-range and mainstream sectors, Nvidia has moved forward the releases of GeForce GTX 1060 products by a month and is likely to reduce their prices to make them more competitive.
It's not going to be under 200$ as you can see from the more recent leaks.This is interesting. If the 1060 is under $200 - that would be impressive. Especially for performance between the 970 & 980. If AMD's 480 has that kind of performance/dollar, then the consumer will actually benefit from competition for a change :thumbsup:
Besides when was the last time, after Kepler, that Nvidia has given better perf/$ at launch?
This is interesting. If the 1060 is under $200 - that would be impressive. Especially for performance between the 970 & 980. If AMD's 480 has that kind of performance/dollar, then the consumer will actually benefit from competition for a change :thumbsup:
If the 1060 was between the 970 & 980 for $200 nobody would buy RX480 unless AMD pulls out a miracle driver or their AIBs magically reduces the TDP.
Following the leak we had a few weeks back, we can now confirm for sure that the 1050Ti and 1060 are successors to the mobile GTX 950M and 960M GPUs. Our source also explains that the new chips will feature GDDR5 memory and wider bus width, or at least the 1060. The 1050Ti will have 4GB of 128-bit GDDR5 memory while the 1060 will receive a wider 192-bit 6GB of GDDR5 VRAM.
It seems that the successors of the 950M and 960M will deliver a significant increase in performance not only due to the new Pascal architecture with 16nm FinFET process but also because of the upgraded memory. We are still puzzled with the Ti at the end of the 1050, though. The first time we received this info, we thought that we are talking about a desktop chip but our source assures that the 1060 and 1050Ti are indeed mobile GPUs. And if named correctly, the rumor about skipping the M at the end of the Pascal graphics cards might turn out to be true and the line between desktop and mobile cards will be blurred. Moreover, we have a second confirmation that the 1050Ti is codenamed N17P-G1 and the 1060 is N17E-G1.
For now, all the information we have are just small pieces of a larger puzzle and we cant be 100% sure but we have a good reason to believe that NVIDIA will announce its mobile Pascal lineup at the beginning of August, probably on the 1st.
We had short 970's, so short 1070's fairly predictable
Going by those, it might be a bit noisy for noise sensitives - short 1060's should be able to be very quiet. Very nice to see though.
For 3GB variants it's very much plausible however don't expect 6GB AIB models to come in under 250$ at launch; also the reference for 1080 & 1070 aren't FEs so we really aren't getting anything under fair value, the FE stuff is just a scam IMO.So... GTX 1080, $699.99 founder's edition, aftermarket as low as $619
GTX 1070.. founders edition $449, aftermarket as low as $399.99
So far that's -$80 off reference for 1080, and -$50 off for 1070... so I wonder what board partners will offer for aftermarket 1060's.. possibly hitting the below-$200 mark?
Definitely some interesting times ahead.
Here they are, first specifications of GeForce GTX 1060. This card features 1280 CUDA cores and 6GB of GDDR5 memory (so quite possibly 192-bit interface). The boost clock is somewhere around 1700 MHz, which gives us maximum compute performance of 4.4 TFLOPs.
NVIDIA rated GTX 1060 at 120W TDP, which is less than Radeon RX 480 (150W). According to leaked slides GTX 1060 will be faster than Radeon RX 480 in terms of performance. It will also be 1.4x more power efficient. However be advised graph values start at 0.8.
In terms of design, it seems that the leaked picture was quite accurate and this is really the new (Founders) design.
More importantly GTX 1060 will launch in July, and the fact that we have these slides already, could further suggest that the rumored launch date is true (7th July).