WYP
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Nvidia has announced their new GTX 1060 GPU for $249.99, offering the game GPU power as the GTX 980 for a greatly reduced price.
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Nvidia announce their GTX 1060 GPU for $249.99
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Nerdfighter
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Looking forward to the benchmarks. Did Nvidia confirm that the card doesn't support SLI? For me that's kind of a dealbreaker, because adding another card down the road was a major way to address the lack of future-proofing of mid-range cards. Hoping that Async Multi-GPU becomes more of a thing down the road I guess.
The founders edition is just a way for nvidia to increase the prices of their cards without people getting to mad, because "you can get it for x amount", what they dont tell you is that the next generation will have the founders price, as the stock price.
So that pretty much means, 15% more performence for 50% more money compared to RX480 if we are to believe the nvidia numbers. Sounds like a deal to me tbh.
So that pretty much means, 15% more performence for 50% more money compared to RX480 if we are to believe the nvidia numbers. Sounds like a deal to me tbh.
AlienALX
Active member
It doesn't have a SLI finger from the look of it. I wouldn't worry about that any way, SLi as we used to know it is totally dead. The last five or so big game titles don't support it which is where we are headed.
As for the benchmarks? 980. It's pretty much just a 980.
Hopefully Microsoft can lead the way with their supposed better support for Implicit Multi Adapter and we can start using more than one GPU soon. SLi fingers won't matter to that, in theory any GPU should work with any other GPU.
Having said that though if these were cheaper and supported SLi they could have been good. Sadly Nvidia have put a stop to that mid range SLi fun years ago. Last decent combo was the 460.
He doesnt have it wrong, thats the price that we have been given directly from Nvidia.
Any price increases you can blame on Brexit because its all because of the weak pound.
Lol when the Euro currency goes pop which it's about to, next bailout for Greece is due and France and Italy are more or less bankrupt, it will make Brexit look like a light shower in summer.
shambles1980
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$299 for the FE makes it less attractive. and starting at $249 really seems to be the sales pitch to get people to stop buying 480's
But what will you get for $249? it makes very little sense..
Also brexit has very little to do with this at all..
we are still in the EU right now.
a £ is still worth more than a $ and more than a euro.
So there should be No possible way that we have to pay after conversions more, but we historically always have.
thats nothing to do with brexit at all.
And even if we had instantly evoked article 50 and left the eu the same day we could still trade with the usa or eu under wto rules which would have added ~3% tariff but again a £ is worth more than a $ or a euro..
So it should never end up that we pay £200 when the usa pay $200.. but we usually do any way. And that has nothing to do with brexit at all.
also the FB article has the FE picture up, and then the price of the cheapest RRp of aftermarket.. that is almost worse than the 1060 performance graph in terms of clouding reality.
But what will you get for $249? it makes very little sense..
Also brexit has very little to do with this at all..
we are still in the EU right now.
a £ is still worth more than a $ and more than a euro.
So there should be No possible way that we have to pay after conversions more, but we historically always have.
thats nothing to do with brexit at all.
And even if we had instantly evoked article 50 and left the eu the same day we could still trade with the usa or eu under wto rules which would have added ~3% tariff but again a £ is worth more than a $ or a euro..
So it should never end up that we pay £200 when the usa pay $200.. but we usually do any way. And that has nothing to do with brexit at all.
also the FB article has the FE picture up, and then the price of the cheapest RRp of aftermarket.. that is almost worse than the 1060 performance graph in terms of clouding reality.
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AlienALX
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Nvidia announced that the FE would be $299 with the partner cards costing $249 suggested. Just like they suggested that the 1080 partner cards would cost far less than the 1080 FE but they are now all approaching £700.
Like some one has said, they're only doing that to keep people from buying 480s. Won't work IMO. After market 480s *should* overclock to about 980 performance making the 1060 a complete waste of money, especially as there's no SLi.
Doomslayer
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You can't just blame Nvidia you have to blame the retailers as well as far as i know no retaillers set the price where Nvidia said they always bump the price up.
IMHO you can't just blame Nvidia but i know people will tho.
IMHO you can't just blame Nvidia but i know people will tho.
NeverBackDown
AMD Enthusiast
It's both. Doesn't really matter who gets blamed in the end. Nvidia gets most of the flak with Pascal for 2 simple reasons. They did raise prices compared to previous ones they set. And then suddenly changing a name from reference to Founder's and you get the Nvidia tax of $100. It's Nvidia taking 200% advantage of consumers because they know people will buy a FE. It's like putting Gamer on something.. helps it sell. That's basically what they are doing. Business wise yeah sure make as most as you can, but with Nvidia's history of being shady, is the reason why I don't prefer them over AMD. Not because of there cards, it's just the company itself.
Doomslayer
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There's no point in moaning about it, It's not going to make a difference people have two choices you buy it and pay the extra money or people not it's a simple choice really.
Well all know that companies aren't really going to change this, Look at intel everytime a new CPU comes out costs goes up but people still pay it Nvidia & Intel knows they can get away with it also they know it's only a small percentage of people who will moan about the pricing they know most people just buy it.
NeverBackDown
AMD Enthusiast
If there's no point in moaning then why did you bother bringing it up in the first place?
CPU market is not a legitamate comparison when you take into account AMD CPUs are very poor in comparison. In the GPU segment, AMD and Nvidia are pretty darn close. Excluding the current gen GPUs, as there competing in different markets atm.
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shambles1980
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well it is nvidias fault..
Why are you meant to pay $300 for a "founders edition" AkA "Reference card".
And yet pay $250 for a 3rd party card aka
"the same card with a new fan" or sometimes "the same card but better"
it defies logic to expect 3rd party card mfrs to charge less if they provide you with more.
What Nvidia are actually saying is.. We think we should sell this card for $250 but we know some types of people and their money are soon parted. so we are charging $300.
We are only stating the RRP for other brand cards here so you know what we think the card should sell for, but you know Nvidia FE badge = +$50 at least.. and will probably be a bit more when we actually release.
but other company's aren't us so we dont think they can charge the $50 loyalty premiums.
Why are you meant to pay $300 for a "founders edition" AkA "Reference card".
And yet pay $250 for a 3rd party card aka
"the same card with a new fan" or sometimes "the same card but better"
it defies logic to expect 3rd party card mfrs to charge less if they provide you with more.
What Nvidia are actually saying is.. We think we should sell this card for $250 but we know some types of people and their money are soon parted. so we are charging $300.
We are only stating the RRP for other brand cards here so you know what we think the card should sell for, but you know Nvidia FE badge = +$50 at least.. and will probably be a bit more when we actually release.
but other company's aren't us so we dont think they can charge the $50 loyalty premiums.
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