Smart, really. Cards aren't ready to be sold yet, so the best avenue to take away some of AMD's sails(or sales!) is to at least announce the 1060, give some specs and rough performance target level and general pricing. Obviously they will hope that enough people will put off buying a 480 in order to at least see what the 1060 will be capable of.
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just a quick head up, i know from Gigabytes end. Nvidia have been a lot better around this time and there's more stock of the 1060 then when the 1070/80 launched 
dont know if this is the case for EU/UK/OCUK etc
but the general ball park
dont know if this is the case for EU/UK/OCUK etc
but the general ball park
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Bah. Needed to come in around the £200 mark or less.
nVIDIA's prices up in the stratosphere at the moment. Need a high end card from AMD to put a squeeze on things.
nVIDIA's prices up in the stratosphere at the moment. Need a high end card from AMD to put a squeeze on things.
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There is a 'Founders' edition of the GTX 1060 
This is amazing, will the milking ever stop, waiting on a Founders edition GT HTPC card next
This is amazing, will the milking ever stop, waiting on a Founders edition GT HTPC card next
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Will SLI be on custom cards? outrageous omitting it.
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Was never going to cost less than a 480, why would it?!
It's 980 performance, in an X60 class card, with better power consumption, more perf/watt, and cheaper to boot.
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HAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHA!! Good one
Why, if there was something even remotely competitive we wouldn't have Fanboi Edition GPUs. Nvidia is now free too add a literally Tax for a worse part (AiB have better cooling, power control, warranty).
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The GTX 960 launched at $199. That's what I've come to expect for an X60 part.
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Nvidia have just pushed everything up, all levels in one single generation jump.
Perhaps it's more along the lines of neither company wanting a price war with increased costs on these smaller processes.
In other words, prices might still be higher than last gen even if both companies had their full ranges out, and the matched each other.
Can only hope that costs do come down in the longer term as things mature.
Wonder how long we'll be on 14/16nm.
More like the 970 and 960 were just very cheaply priced compared to before in an aggressive move to ward off what was close competition at the time.
Also the 960 was a fairly lousy card. $199 was probably about right for it. Was slower than a 770.
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I miss the 6600GT pricing. Matching (even beating) the former high end for £160. That was back in the day that ATI and nVIDIA were trading blows at the high end though.
The 5x00 generation was awful though.
The 5x00 generation was awful though.
I think nV are smart enough to know that a 3GB 1060 has *no* chance of selling.
A 3GB 1050 @ $149 is a different story.
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GTX 660 Ti was probably the last relatively good x60 part. Certainly the last one to have better than 128 bit bus.
The GTX 460 256bit version did the job before that.
760 and 960 were both a bit underwhelming.
The GTX 460 256bit version did the job before that.
760 and 960 were both a bit underwhelming.
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I don't think the 1060 will be able to equal a 980.
I am basing this on how the other Pascal cards perform against the Maxwell cards.
For example the best 1080s on the Heaven 4 bench score about 3300 and the best 980s score about 2100.
If you half the 1080 score as the 1060 is basically half a 1080 you get a score around 1650 which is a long way short of the 980s.