GTX 1060 To Be Announced on 7th July ?

[Apache14]

Hot on the heals of the 480 :\

http://wccftech.com/nvidia-gtx-1060-special-launch-event-july/


Wonder when we will actually see them in store ;/

 

[Apache14]

Sometime between July and September??

More i read on the 480 power consumption the worse i think the 1060 will be *IF* its under the $275 RRP mark

 

[Apache14]

Looks cool, but don't expect it to do more than trade blows with the 480 imo.

Well the 480 is about (looking at day 0 benchmarks) 60% of a 1070 .... so it seems likely that the 1060 will be at least at the performance level of the 480... but (if power draw scales properly nvidia side) with a much lower power draw

 

[Apache14]

Looking at pure "shader processor" count :-

the 960 retail had 1024 vs the 970's 1664, this is 61% of the 970.

now running the same thing on 1070 (with its 1920 processor count) gives us :-

1920 * 0.61 = 1171.

Im gunna make a wild guess of a processor count for the 1060 of around 1280 to make it slightly better than the rx-480


NOTE i know very well that the shader processor isnt 1:1 with the overall performance of a card or haw gpu arch scales .... just musing and getting a ballpark idea

 

[Apache14]

Some specs leaked:

http://videocardz.com/61753/nvidia-geforce-gtx-1060-specifications-leaked-faster-than-rx-480

According to Nvidia's own slides around 15% faster than an RX480. Apparently according to the comments it is $299 - if that is the case it will be closer to £270 here then!!

That "Much Faster" graph over the Rx 480 puts is a bit of a joke. It shows 1.15 under performance, is that 1.15 x the speed of the 480 ? (axis need units .... whoever did that never did GCSE maths :|
)

But assuming the above 1.15 x RX 480 performance would put it just below the 980 in most benchmarks. But for $100 more ? should be sitting at $230 (taking the base $200 for the R9 480) or worst case $260 :|

So looks like it could be a bit faster for a bit more money :|