If the GTX 1070 proves too rich for your blood then maybe the GTX 1060 is the card for you. Promising GTX 980 performance for an affordable price, we take it for a spin.
Nvidia GTX 1060 Founders Edition Review
Nvidia GTX 1060 Founders Edition Review
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If the GTX 1070 proves too rich for your blood then maybe the GTX 1060 is the card for you. Promising GTX 980 performance for an affordable price, we take it for a spin.
Nvidia GTX 1060 Founders Edition Review
AlienALX
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£275 too spenny. Is that from Nvidia's site for the FE?
Nice card but it literally comes down to the pennies with this and the 480s. Literal pence between them.
Edit. Went to Nvidia no date. I predicted this but from what I was hearing I was all prepared to be wrong. So I will stand by what I said - Vapor launch.
Nice card but it literally comes down to the pennies with this and the 480s. Literal pence between them.
Edit. Went to Nvidia no date. I predicted this but from what I was hearing I was all prepared to be wrong. So I will stand by what I said - Vapor launch.
Mindfactory has stock for five aftermarket cards.
It starts at 279€ in germany for an acceptable card, which is a tenner more than an 8GB reference 480, if i were in the market i'd probably get that over a 480. In a week or two they'll probably be down to ~260€. But there are also cards like the Strix OC for up to 350€, that's just too much money.
Doomslayer
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Sorry dude not Vapor launch even places here have them in stock.
AlienALX
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Doomslayer
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Yup seems I was wrong
Yes but there is some BS that goes with it.
"Limited stock - max 1 per household! *Direct deposit payment not recommended as stock is likely to sell out before your payment clears*"
Does that apply to all cards? On mindfactory there is no limit, they only have a limit of two cards per household on FE cards for the 1070/1080. They don't have the 1060 FE, but i guess it's a FE thing because they are limited production?
SPS
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I don't know if I'd call a low-end card 980 performance.
demonking
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Didn't mean to offend and yep it still performs better than my 970. i just don't think im going to be able to keep up with high end (ish) hardware with the way prices are going. really want to upgrade my Ivy CPU but £330 for a comparable part is too much. Just priced up a comparable PC on current gen pats and it was over 1100 without a case. thats over a £500 jump in 3.5 years if i add on a case
Greenback
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Didn't mean to offend and yep it still performs better than my 970. i just don't think im going to be able to keep up with high end (ish) hardware with the way prices are going. really want to upgrade my Ivy CPU but £330 for a comparable part is too much. Just priced up a comparable PC on current gen pats and it was over 1100 without a case. thats over a £500 jump in 3.5 years if i add on a case
don't know what you're worrying about I'm still on sandy from 2010/11
AlienALX
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The 980 is being shoved out though. You've now got 1070, 980ti, Titan X and 1080 that are all faster. It's natural progression and the 980 is now considered an entry level card because AMD make one that's a few % slower for $199. Or faster in Async DX12 and Vulkan, if they float your boat.
No one is being priced out though. AMD have made sure of that. It's just the top end cards that are stupid money but you know what they say about stupid money objects...
I usually sit one tier from the top or even lower. So long as I can get the FPS I need I'm happy enough to have hand me downs
Doomslayer
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On some of the cards not all there not doing it on the GTX1070 but on the GTX1080 they are and i'm sure from memory they were even doing it on the RX480 they have even done it on AIB cards as well.
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Looked at numerous benchmarks and read 3 different reviews and from what I've seen the 1060 doesnt offer a knockout blow to the RX480. Some it beats AMD and some it loses out to. If you're a tight yorkshireman/northerner, I'd be leaning towards AMD. Ultimately lower price = better value for money in my eyes.
Isn't AMD more open with linux support too? I seem to remember a couple of years back Nvidia was utter toss with Linux support?
Isn't AMD more open with linux support too? I seem to remember a couple of years back Nvidia was utter toss with Linux support?
GTX 1060 FE & GPU Boost 3.0
Have you got any response from Nvidia concerning GPU Boost 3.0 on their FE, since on their website, they write it has GPU Boost 3.0 in the full specs
http://www.geforce.com/hardware/10series/geforce-gtx-1060
and other reviews on the GTX 1060 FE also write it uses GPU Boost 3.0
Have you got any response from Nvidia concerning GPU Boost 3.0 on their FE, since on their website, they write it has GPU Boost 3.0 in the full specs
http://www.geforce.com/hardware/10series/geforce-gtx-1060
and other reviews on the GTX 1060 FE also write it uses GPU Boost 3.0
Dawelio
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WYP
News Guru
remember that the 1060 3GB has less CUDA cores than the GTX 1060 6GB.
Look at reviews that are specific to the 1060 3GB for performance data. In reality, it should have a different name.
NeverBackDown
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