Nvidia showcases a GTX 1060 3GB GPU at a Chinese Press conference

[Wraith]

I'm still not seeing a major issue with this, the box will no doubt come with clear indication of the reduced GDDR and the specs will highlight the CUDA count. Admittedly I can see issue with the naming of the card though, "Ti" nah I'm honestly of the mindset now that they aren't going to be running any Ti models with Pascal I do however feel they probably should make it a little clearer for the "blind" consumer maybe a GT1060 or GTX 1060 Lite something along those lines. Still, people should be paying attention to what it is they are buying because the age old adage of "The customer is always right" is just hogswash I worked in retail for far too long to believe that tripe.

As for bashing NV, yes they have had some questionable failings recently and in the past but they have come clean plus they are just a company who's sole purpose is making money, there is no denying they make the best GPUs and the best always comes at a premium.

 

[SeekaX]

But they always get away with it

Send them to jail for crimes against humanity.
Why is this being blown out of proportion so much? Every reviewer and their grandmother is going to point out that this card has less cores than a normal 1060, it's not exactly the scam of the century.

 

[Doomslayer]

As i have said before the bigger percentage of people couldn't give two you know what about this kinda stuff they just buy Nvidia cause they like Nvidia is that so hard for some people to understand.

If Nvidia cuts corners on GPU the non informed people don't care they just buy Nvidia.

 

[SeekaX]

As i have said before the bigger percentage of people couldn't give two you know what about this kinda stuff they just buy Nvidia cause they like Nvidia is that so hard for some people to understand.

If Nvidia cuts corners on GPU the non informed people don't care they just buy Nvidia.

Someone who is willing to spend $200+ on a GPU will either do research or ask someone who knows their stuff. The people you are talking about don't know the significance of the naming scheme in the first place and will just buy whatever is in their budget, that's why they frequently end up with stuff like GT730s.

 

[AlienALX]

It's not just reduced DDR either. It's slower, too.

Any way if every one knows their stuff (which they don't) they would soon realise that 3gb is not enough for any gaming these days. Not even 1080p.

In fact, I have seen a few cases on OCUK recently where people have been tempted in by the £299 Fury Nitro and have been running short of VRAM @ 1080p.

Yes I know you can reduce the settings but tbh for £200 these days I would want to be maxing out 1080p, given that most of the high end cards are for 1440p and 4k.

So me personally? 8gb 480. The new consoles will have 8gb VRAM IIRC so that is what you will need when the PS Neo or whatever they are calling it launches. AMD know this too, they're not stupid. It could be the one area where they catch out the 1060.

Some one said on OCUK the other day that ROTTR was designed to use more than 4gb VRAM to push people to get a 980ti. Normally I would scoff at such a suggestion but then I remembered that it's a Gameworks title. Thing is? going from the maximum settings down a peg or two made no visual difference to me at all (and it's not just me who thinks that either, this guy said much of the same) yet if you wanted the top settings you needed 6gb or it turns into an unstable slide show.

They could have quite easily made High the top setting for that game, renamed it ultra and no one would have been the wiser. It would still have looked better than most games out there.

 

[NeverBackDown]

Send them to jail for crimes against humanity.
Why is this being blown out of proportion so much? Every reviewer and their grandmother is going to point out that this card has less cores than a normal 1060, it's not exactly the scam of the century.

If I could I would! I'd send far to many people in general.

As i have said before the bigger percentage of people couldn't give two you know what about this kinda stuff they just buy Nvidia cause they like Nvidia is that so hard for some people to understand.

If Nvidia cuts corners on GPU the non informed people don't care they just buy Nvidia.

That's not the argument. This has to do with the name. Not Nvidia.

 

[Doomslayer]

That's not the argument. This has to do with the name. Not Nvidia.

What i'm saying is that most people don't care they will just buy Nvidia.

But i agree with Wraith i don't see any issues with this not like the GTX970.

 

[AlienALX]

As for bashing NV, yes they have had some questionable failings recently and in the past but they have come clean plus they are just a company who's sole purpose is making money, there is no denying they make the best GPUs and the best always comes at a premium.

Whilst that may be true of the 1070 and 1080 it certainly isn't true of the 1060. It's a low end card, an area where they have fierce competition.

What you are basically saying is that because Nvdia make some faster cards than AMD that people will buy slower, over priced inferior cards for more money than they are worth.

Sadly in a way you are right, but it doesn't make what they do right. Their low end cards are usually hobbled crap that needs replacing every year. And they wouldn't even be competitively priced if it were not for the fact that AMD are good in that sector of the market.

So yeah, doesn't work on me. Just because they make the 1080 and Titan XP doesn't mean I would consider a low end over priced hobbled card (3gb = lol and no SLi on the 6gb = even more lol).

This could seriously come back to bite them if and when (and it's more a case of when rather than if, given the new consoles will be "Scaleable" as AMD put it) EMA and IMA become more widespread. And it will probably be EMA which rules out using more than one. That part of the 1060 just makes no sense at all. If Nvidia were in touch with what is actually going on in the world of computing they would realise that SLi is pretty much dead in the water, so they've deliberately killed EMA.

So like I say, you will probably need to replace a 1060 next year, given that the 480 does support EMA and flies whilst doing so.

 

[Kushiro]

People would be surpirsed how many people just buy things without research etc.

 

[AlienALX]

People would be surpirsed how many people just buy things without research etc.

Yup so there will definitely be lawsuits over this I reckon.

 

[Doomslayer]

Yup so there will definitely be lawsuits over this I reckon.

It might happen but not for about two years cause it took them about two years to sort out the GTX970, But i'm not sure it will happen.

 

[DarthDudo]

Allot of fanboi's in here, I can't understand how anyone would think this is fine it's obfuscation of an inferior product marketed as a superior product, let me guess they did it this way "To avoid any confusion" ?

When I first went to upgrade my first gaming pc back in late 2010 I asked questions on other message boards, I asked the usual questions, Should I upgrade my CPU or my GPU, is my PSU enough etc etc the usual newcomer questions, shortly after asking I was advised to upgrade my GPU to a GTX 460 after hearing this advice I began to look at the various SKU's and naturally I began to ask what is the difference between the manufacturers it was explained to me that they all use the same chip and are therefore identical and I should just get the cheapest one I can find unless I wanted better warranty or a specific cooler, taking this advice to heart I went to an etailer picked the cheapest GTX 460 I could find a 768mb Model which I found out later had a cut down core count and inferior performance luckily the order wasn't processed and I was able to buy a 2GB model for only an extra 20 euro's.

I did my research I asked my questions and I took the answers I was given as truthful and knowledgeable, was it my fault I was nearly stung and bought an inferior product or is it Nvidia's for obfuscating the fact that two GPU's of the same naming SKU perform vastly differently?

I think it's very easy to forget how confusing GPU spec sheets can be to a complete newcomer and these obviously calculated moves certainly don't make it easier.