It may take two quarters for Nvidia to sell out excess GTX 1060 stock

[WYP]

Nvidia made too many GTX 1060 graphics cards.



Read more about Nvidia's excess of GTX 1060 stock.

 

[demonking]

any plans for this site to bench the GDDR5X cards? Rumours are these have lower memory bandwidth to the refreshed 1060s that are on the market already.

 

[ImprovizoR]

If they lower the prices further to counter AMD's 590, they should sell like hotcakes.

 

[AngryGoldfish]

If they lower the prices further to counter AMD's 590, they should sell like hotcakes.

Yeah, definitely. The RX 590 doesn't seem to be sailing away with appreciation and adoration (from what I've seen) because it's a more power hungry, more expensive version of a 2.5 year-old card. It performs quite a bit better, but a lot of reviewers seem to suggest that the RX 580 can be found for cheaper and can overclock perfectly fine, so consumers should be going with that instead. So along with the RX 580 being better value, if Nvidia dropped the GTX 1060 prices, the RX 590 could become very unpopular if AMD don't drop its price as well.

 

[WYP]

any plans for this site to bench the GDDR5X cards? Rumours are these have lower memory bandwidth to the refreshed 1060s that are on the market already.

TBH I don't even know if they are making it to the west, or if any vendor even wants to send them to reviewers.

 

[NickOmega]

Pascal is well positioned as the GPU of choice in the midrange for the holidays

Yes, if "well positioned" means more expensive and slower than it's main competition, the RX580 8GB.

 

[Kaapstad]

The 1060 is a nice card.

When the 2060 finally arrives to replace it I don't think it will be anything to get excited about as the new Turing card will be -

Expensive
Small performance gain over 1060
No RTX

 

[Davva2004]

The 1060 is the perfect 1080P card, so Nvidia should be able to shift loads of them if they price it right.

 

[Warchild]

Nvidia need to shift them now. Their stocks have once again been over valued and taken a hit. Down to $202 when it was trading at 269 not that long ago.

I think its a collaboration of mining craze dying, surplus stocks and poor Turing sales all mounting up.