Hardware & Technical Nvidia GTX 1060 confirmed

[Porina]

Current prices: cheapest 1060 6GB on Ebuyer = £270; cheapest RX 480 8GB on Ebuyer = £220.

More performance, in some cases, for more price - not unexpected.

I'll be interested in Vulkan results though.

http://www.ebuyer.com/753388-palit-...nk-dvi-hdmi-3x-displayport-ne51060015j9-1060d

£239.99 and in stock as of when I write this. I was refreshing ebuyer around 2:30pm and it was interesting to watch some cards go out of stock one by one. Not surprisingly, mostly the cheaper ones.

Fanboys of each respective side will surely find and exaggerate faults with the other sides card, but hard to go wrong with either.

 

[Robert Maynard]

I sorted by price after selecting the GTX 1060 on their site - it doesn't show the Palit version at all....

I'm guessing that there's a glitch in their site.

£240 for the card sounds much better than £270.

Interesting too that partner cards are available on day one and not just reference cards.

 

[Porina]

I suspect they might not have categorised it correctly yet. I found that card by going to the 1060 feature page they have up and not the regular search function. Was quite tempted but I don't need one yet, or a 480 for that matter... Too hot for GPU work at the moment.

 

[Insomnia]

Just as a quick question, what influences you most average frame rate or lowest frame rate?
Personally I dislike frame tearing or jerking when the card hits a high workload, therefore low frame rates influence me most.

edit] http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/nvidia-geforce-gtx-1060-pascal,4679.html#xtor=RSS-100

Frame rates are not that important. Frame times/latency is more important and here is where Nvidia takes the lead.
Performance will eventually even out between the two teams so it's fairly unimportant.
What is important for me is availability, flexibility and features.
Availability because I want to use mods in all my games and with AMDs drivers in the past, modding has put people through hell, ENB Series in particular has been a pain for people and since I modded and coded ENB for 3 years I needed something stable.
Flexibility because I want my graphics card to give a consistent frame rate in all my games and not just those games that are developed together with one of the brands.
Features because I frikkin love HairWorks (especially on animals and fur) and those types of gimmicks. PhysX looked phenomenal before Nvidia bought the license! And Nvidias anti aliasing features rocks!

 

[nosscar]

I sorted by price after selecting the GTX 1060 on their site - it doesn't show the Palit version at all....

I'm guessing that there's a glitch in their site.

£240 for the card sounds much better than £270.

Interesting too that partner cards are available on day one and not just reference cards.

I got this email this morning, his looks a good price for the Palit version.
http://www.novatech.co.uk/products/...tm_medium=eweekly&utm_campaign=eweekly-190716

and wow, the Rx 480 4gb version at £173.99
http://www.ebuyer.com/751840-xfx-am...mi-3x-displayport-pci-e-graphics-rx-480m4bfa6

 

[Morlock5K]

My 1060 is ordered and en route. Went for the Zotac amp as it is shorter than most the others so will likely fit easier into my rig. I currently have a GTX660 so this will be a "slight" upgrade to say the least. Can't wait to see Horizons with the new hardware as I think they look good already but I'm prepared to be blown away!

 

[Porina]

I got this email this morning, his looks a good price for the Palit version.
http://www.novatech.co.uk/products/...tm_medium=eweekly&utm_campaign=eweekly-190716

and wow, the Rx 480 4gb version at £173.99
http://www.ebuyer.com/751840-xfx-am...mi-3x-displayport-pci-e-graphics-rx-480m4bfa6

The palit 1060 is £240 and in stock at ebuyer. I'm hesitant to put much into the 480 4GB price since it is out of stock, but for those on a tight budget and don't mind waiting it could be the one.

 

[Insomnia]

My 1060 is ordered and en route. Went for the Zotac amp as it is shorter than most the others so will likely fit easier into my rig. I currently have a GTX660 so this will be a "slight" upgrade to say the least. Can't wait to see Horizons with the new hardware as I think they look good already but I'm prepared to be blown away!

I have the 660 as well but I'm buying a new 1070 rig all together as my current CPU would bottleneck the GPU most likely.

 

[nosscar]

Any ideas on if a fx6300 cpu would bottleneck the new gtx 1060 or the rx 480.

 

[Insomnia]

After a quick search on the major PC sites here in Sweden...
Cheapest GTX 1060 in Sweden is the Zotac Standard GTX 1060 with a price tag of approx $340, or 2,899 SEK.
Cheapest RX480 is the Sapphire RX480 (out of stock) with a price tag of $326, or 2,789 SEK.

 

[Porina]

Time to upgrade my GeForce210 then May as well put in both my GTX750Ti-OC and this featured one since it's so cheap $299 is what...about £170?

Actual UK pricing starts around £239, and it looks like the 1st batch is more or less sold out now. Some higher priced cards still around.

 

[Porina]

Time to hurry up and slash VAT to nil.

Chances of that happening are about nil.