Nvidia Geforce GTX 1060 Ti, thoughts, opinions?

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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.

 

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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!

 

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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.

 

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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?

 

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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!

 

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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+

 

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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

Thanks for the effort, as I already said neck and neck over the average, which lines up with what most other folks are seeing it would seem. I've got 1060 6GB kicking around here and the Mrs. has an RX480 in here little gaming system, so I could do a side-by-side but the games she plays it's hard work. KCD, Witcher 3, etc. I don't really play games, other than the odd blast on a an old title, or some Civ 6, so it seems like a lot of hard work to show what we already know.

 

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The bottom line is there will be very little and no noticeable difference in games between them and even if there is a 1060 refresh (I would be surprised but have been surprised before), I doubt that will be much of an improvement. Price is the biggest blow really for PC users and the current pricing is mental.

Well this end of the market where the real value is for PC gamers, and with the £209 RX 580 with about £80-100 worth of games included it shows that. I think there's plenty of life let in PC gaming if you are not one of these people who buy the overpriced RTX Nvidia cards cementing the need for prices to increase in line with performance.

I think Nvidia have already decided that the 1060 refresh is not a refresh, just using up parts they have lots of, which is a shame really since it's going to be 2.5 years by the time they get around to it missing the Q4 seasonal sales, and pushing older stock on new users, and even worse new gamers

 

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Feel free to dismiss it if you don't like the results. Nasher did the same as he didn't like the games tested

I must admit, the lack of Minesweeper and Prince of Persia really made me think this guy is having a laugh, clearly getting paid by someone.