Nvidia Geforce GTX 1060 Ti, thoughts, opinions?

[Journey]

Quite a few rumors floating around in the GPU world that there is an imminent refresh of the GTX 1060 incoming to possibly compete with the yet unreleased RX 590 card, and it having the Ti branding/naming.

From what I have seen it is looking like the card will have a GP104 die, and GDDR5X memory. Now obviously it seems a bit of a waste putting a GP104 die on the board unless they plan on using more than 1280 CUDA cores, but will it have 1500+, or the full 1920 of the Geforce GTX 1070 but clocked more slowly?

I would think that it would release at £299, and the GTX 1070 will all but disappear from the shelves, and depending on how it ends up could become the new value mid-range card if they don't mess it up by making it too gimped.

My predictions:

1536 Cuda Cores
6GB GDDR5X
Full 256-bit memory bus
Base clock around 1600MHz
Boost clock 1750MHz ish


Of course this could all be utter tripe, and they won't release anything, so don't burn me at the steak if it is indeed wrong.

 

[Mark1989]

Nvidia all ready list it on there site, its just named as 1060, a pointless release. They have released it quietly.

If you scroll down bottom of there product page it shows the new GDDR5X, its £249, they have just replaced the current 1060.

They really want rid of 10 series stock i guess!

 

[Journey]

Nvidia all ready list it on there site, its just named as 1060, a pointless release. They have released it quietly.

If you scroll down bottom of there product page it shows the new GDDR5X, its £249, they have just replaced the current 1060.

They really want rid of 10 series stock i guess!

Well that was a bit of a damp squib then!

 

[Mark1989]

Well that was a bit of a damp squib then!

Much like the card really, if anything surely leaving the 10 series as is now and just put out the 2060 sooner, if there really worried about the 590 if true.

 

[DarrenM343]

Makes me wonder if they're planning a 2060 anytime soon. Looks like the old gen cards up to 1070 TI fit in well with the higher end 20 series.

 

[Gripen90]

So we have 5 different GTX 1060 models now.
GTX 1060 3GB
GTX 1060 5GB (Asian market)
GTX 1060 6GB
GTX 1060 6GB 9GBPS
GTX 1060 6GB GDDR5X

 

[ubersonic]

Nvidia be like "AMD think they can out-rebrand/refresh us!?! NOBODY out out-rebrand/refresh's Nvidia!"

 

[Journey]

Thinking about this a bit more, if the RX 590 does come out, and Nvidia doesn't actually release a newer card with a different identifier, whether that be Ti/SE/MegaUltraSuperEdition or something similar they are going to have a hard time competing at the £250 price range for a while. RX 580 and GTX 1060 6GB are neck and neck, so adding 10-15% bump to the RX 580 will see the GTX 1060 look like poor value if you cannot easily tell if you got one of the better cards. Factoring in the budget side of these arguments you then have Freesync, and given the borderline performance of some games at 1440p with the current cards, that could also be the tipping point. Just some thought, nothing to get riled about you red/green team crazies.

 

[ubersonic]

Thinking about this a bit more, if the RX 590 does come out, and Nvidia doesn't actually release a newer card with a different identifier, whether that be Ti/SE/MegaUltraSuperEdition or something similar they are going to have a hard time competing at the £250 price range for a while. RX 580 and GTX 1060 6GB are neck and neck, so adding 10-15% bump to the RX 580 will see the GTX 1060 look like poor value if you cannot easily tell if you got one of the better cards.

The are two flaws with that though, firstly AMD are calling it a 590 not a 680, which means it's not really a newer identifier. Secondly, when has an Nvidia card having worse performance than a cheaper or equally priced AMD card ever hurt Nvidia's sales? Heck 90% of buyers don't even know what they're buying they just spend what they can afford and aim for Nvidia.

 

[Journey]

The are two flaws with that though, firstly AMD are calling it a 590 not a 680, which means it's not really a newer identifier.

I stopped reading after that, since your obviously can't tell the basic difference between two numbers. 580, 590, see?

 

[Marine-RX179]

The are two flaws with that though, firstly AMD are calling it a 590 not a 680, which means it's not really a newer identifier. Secondly, when has an Nvidia card having worse performance than a cheaper or equally priced AMD card ever hurt Nvidia's sales? Heck 90% of buyers don't even know what they're buying they just spend what they can afford and aim for Nvidia.

Average Joes are still (mis)led into think that the 1060 3GB and the 1060 6GB are the same card just with different amount of vram.

 

[ubersonic]

I stopped reading after that, since your obviously can't tell the basic difference between two numbers.

I can, 5 and 6 are different, 5 and 5 are not. Don't confuse series numbers with sub-model numbers.

I.E, re-branding the RX480 to RX580 automatically implied (to the average consumer) it was now better than the GTX900 equivalent, the 590 doesn't have that same impact, it's just a minor addition that 99% of buyers won't even care about let alone notice, just another 500 series to walk past when picking up their GTX1060.

Average Joes are still (mis)led into think that the 1060 3GB and the 1060 6GB are the same card just with different amount of vram.

Indeed, sad but true

 

[Journey]

I can, 5 and 6 are different, 5 and 5 are not. Don't confuse series numbers with sub-model numbers.

An identifier is just that, something that identifies it as different, it could have 580 OMGWTFBBQ on the end it is still identified differently, to the plain RX 580. You must get really confused if you go to buy a car, oh it's a BMW 316i, must be the same as the 335i Xdrive... DOH!

 

[Kaapstad]

NVidia please just sell the existing 1060 SKUs at a lower price to clear them, we don't need anymore variants of old Pascal cards.

 

[Journey]

NVidia please just sell the existing 1060 SKUs at a lower price to clear them, we don't need anymore variants of old Pascal cards.

Would be nice of them to drop the price down to £199 MSRP for the 6GB. I wonder how long it is before someone tries to cross flash a GDDR5X version with the GP104 die, and make it into a power limited 1070+

 

[Poneros]

Makes me wonder if they're planning a 2060 anytime soon. Looks like the old gen cards up to 1070 TI fit in well with the higher end 20 series.

They will, to replace the 1070. Last I heard this was expected for early 2019. So many 1070s & 1070tis floating around though, it's gonna be a while for them to offload all that stock.

 

[JediFragger]

Nvidia be like "AMD think they can out-rebrand/refresh us!?! NOBODY out out-rebrand/refresh's Nvidia!"

 

[JediFragger]

Would be nice of them to drop the price down to £199 MSRP for the 6GB.

LMFBO!! Good one, they'll probably slap another £50 on it for the LOLs

 

[Nasher]

Thinking about this a bit more, if the RX 590 does come out, and Nvidia doesn't actually release a newer card with a different identifier, whether that be Ti/SE/MegaUltraSuperEdition or something similar they are going to have a hard time competing at the £250 price range for a while. RX 580 and GTX 1060 6GB are neck and neck, so adding 10-15% bump to the RX 580 will see the GTX 1060 look like poor value if you cannot easily tell if you got one of the better cards. Factoring in the budget side of these arguments you then have Freesync, and given the borderline performance of some games at 1440p with the current cards, that could also be the tipping point. Just some thought, nothing to get riled about you red/green team crazies.

The rx480 and 1060 were neck and neck, the rx580 is quicker. But both have "mysteriously" pulled ahead now that the 20 series is released

 

[Gregster]

The rx480 and 1060 were neck and neck, the rx580 is quicker. But both have "mysteriously" pulled ahead now that the 20 series is released

Not sure where you get your info but to stop the OP from seeing such BS, here is someone who has tested loads of games for you to see