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NVIDIA Announces GeForce GTX 1060, Fierce Competition For the Radeon RX 480 (hothardware.com)

Posted by msmash on from the cut-throat-competition dept.

Reader MojoKid writes: In May, NVIDIA released the GeForce GTX 1080. The company followed up on that beastly chip in June with slightly cut down GeForce GTX 1070 and that trickledown effect is now reaching the mainstream market with the arrival of the GeForce GTX 1060. The GeForce GTX 1060 can be seen as a direct response to the AMD Radeon RX 480, which offers a ton of performance at the $200 price point. While still built using a 16nm FinFET process, the GP106 core on the GTX 1060 features 1280 CUDA cores; exactly half that of the GTX 1080. Base clock for the GPU is 1506MHz, while the boost clock is 1708MHz (NVIDIA is quick to point out, however, the GPU core can easily be overclocked to 2GHz+). The GTX 1060 features a 192-bit memory bus and comes with 6GB of GDDR5 memory running at 8Gbps. The card has a single 6-pin power connector and a 120W TDP. NVIDIA claims that the GTX 1060 is on average 15 percent faster than its closest competitor, the Radeon RX 480. The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 will be available starting July 19th from a wide variety of third-party partners including ASUS, EVGA, Gigabyte, MSI and Zotac etc. with a starting price of $249. The NVIDIA-built GeForce GTX 1060 Founder Edition will be available for $299.

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  1. Current gen vs last gen by Daetrin · · Score: 1

    In the past for moderately priced gaming PCs i've always gone for the mid-tier option ($200ish) from the previous generation, but this sounds like a pretty good deal. Is this going to be the new gold standard for the mid-price range?

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    1. Re:Current gen vs last gen by ranton · · Score: 1

      In the past for moderately priced gaming PCs i've always gone for the mid-tier option ($200ish) from the previous generation, but this sounds like a pretty good deal. Is this going to be the new gold standard for the mid-price range?

      I had a very similar strategy in the past, although I'm curious why you go for previous generation cards? I have generally stuck with the $200ish option of the current generation, such as the 1060. I have never seen any appeal for going with cards from 1-2 years ago since they are generally outperformed by new cards at the same price point.

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    2. Re:Current gen vs last gen by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Because its only 40-60% less cost after 1-2 years?

      I think you misunderstood the poster, they buy the mid-tier price point 2 years after release, and its no longer release price after 2 years.

    3. Re:Current gen vs last gen by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      outperformed by new cards at the same price point.

      That, and particularly with this generation of nvidia GPUs in the performance/watt dept. So ultimately, depending on where you live etc, this could be a lot cheaper than a previous gen design even if the upfront costs are slightly higher.

    4. Re:Current gen vs last gen by Daetrin · · Score: 1

      I may be using the terminology incorrectly. When i ordered by current PC.... almost six years ago (wow, and that would be why i'm seriously looking at components now) i believe i had the option between a number of GTX 4xx cards and one or two GTX 5xx cards that had just come out. I ended up going with the GTX 460, which had been available for awhile but not a full year. Maybe about six months?

      I was thinking of doing the same thing this year. Wait for the 10xxs to come out and then wait a little longer for the price of the 9xxs to drop in response. But if i was planning to spend about $200 on the card anyway perhaps i should spend a little more and go for the 1060. I certainly don't have the old prices available now, but i don't recall the 5xxs being that cheap when they first came out, which made going for the high end of the previous generation/lower tier/whatever seem much more appealing.

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    5. Re:Current gen vs last gen by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      The 480 seems like a better deal than paying 25% more money for 15% more performance.

    6. Re:Current gen vs last gen by mobby_6kl · · Score: 1

      I think the 1060 is one of the more expensive x60 range cards so far. While the performance increase this generation is pretty decent, the combination of long time between generations and increased prices means that you could've bought a 970 at launch for maybe just $50 more two years ago and enjoyed 1060-level performance this whole time. Unless you can find a 970 well below $200 on a firesale somewhere, I'd definitely go with the 1060 (or RX480 if you're so inclide).

    7. Re:Current gen vs last gen by ranton · · Score: 4, Insightful

      I think you misunderstood the poster, they buy the mid-tier price point 2 years after release, and its no longer release price after 2 years.

      That is what I thought he meant, but I don't think the logic holds up. After 2 years the new $200 cards tend to beat the previous generation which drop in price to the same price point.

      Take this example, where the 1060 will be priced at about $200. Lets say that the GTX 970 soon drops to the $200 price point (its around $280 now). Based on the 1080 & 1070, the 1060 will likely have a PCMark score of around 10850 (scores). Since the 970 has a score of 8658, there doesn't seem to be any logic in going with the last generation. Based on my possibly incorrect memory, this is usually if not always the case.

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    8. Re:Current gen vs last gen by ranton · · Score: 1

      Yeah who knows what the prices of the cards were when you where choosing, although the GTX 560 did have the same $199 initial price as the GTX 460 (source). The 460 came out in July 2010 though while the 560 came out in May 2011, so you could certainly have been building that computer before the 560 came out. The 570 & 580 came out in Nov/Dec 2010, so those were probably the cards you had available to choose from at the time ($349/$499 respectively).

      Although this does go to show that as soon as the newest card comes out at your price point, it is usually the best one to buy. Cards from previous generations rarely drop in price enough to justify purchasing them instead of the newest version. So you didn't really choose the previous generation because it became more economical upon release of the GTX 5xx line; the GTX 460 was just as good of a buy in August 2010 as it was in April 2011 (depending on how early they announced the GTX 560).

      So if you buy the 1060 this time around, you are basically following the same logic you did last time. It's just that this time you are in the market to buy at the release date instead of six months later.

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    9. Re:Current gen vs last gen by ranton · · Score: 1

      you could've bought a 970 at launch for maybe just $50 more two years ago and enjoyed 1060-level performance this whole time

      The 970 was released at $329, over $100 more than the 1060. And based on how the 1070 performs with 75% of the 1080's cores, the 1060 should perform about 25% better than the 970. You should be comparing the 1060 to the 960, which was at the same price point, but in that case the 1060 will likely be about 80% faster. But he would have had to wait about 18 more months.

      From what I can tell the 10xx line is the most impressive GPU upgrade in a long time. The new cards simply crush the last generation at the same price point. I waited about six months for this generation because of the hype and luckily reality matched the hype this time.

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    10. Re:Current gen vs last gen by ranton · · Score: 1

      The 480 seems like a better deal than paying 25% more money for 15% more performance.

      He did say he bought the 460, not the 480. And if he was comparing the 460 to the 570, which is most likely, it would have been 75% more money for 66% more performance. If the 560 had already been released, it would have been more like 10% more money for 18% more performance.

      My bet was that he built the computer in early 2011 and was choosing the 460 over the 570. Based on price per performance they were about the same, but not everyone can pay close to $400 for a video card.

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    11. Re:Current gen vs last gen by Daetrin · · Score: 1

      I already posted a little about this in a different sub-thread, but if my old notes are right it looks like six years ago i made the choice to go with the newish GTX 460 for a little under $200 instead of the brand new GTX 580 for about $500.

      According to the benchmark site you linked it looks like the 580 had a little more than 6 times the processing power of the 460, but the 460 was less than half the price and i'm still able to play all the games i'd like, though perhaps not with the highest settings, so i don't feel like it was a terrible choice. (Although the GPU fan has started intermittently failing, so i've taken off the side of my PC and have a floor fan next to it to keep things at a reasonable temperature, but that's an entirely different issue =)

      It's entirely possible though that i made a mistake by not waiting long enough for the GTX 560 to come out to make an "even" comparison. Obviously if it was a mistake that's something i'd like to correct this time around.

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    12. Re:Current gen vs last gen by Shinobi · · Score: 1

      What's really impressive is that in addition to the raw performance, the Pascal series is even more power efficient than Maxwell. Polaris seems to have caught up with Maxwell in terms of power efficiency, but Pascal is quite a bit ahead.

    13. Re:Current gen vs last gen by Daetrin · · Score: 1

      Looks like we're crossing the streams :)

      So yeah, based on what you just said i guess making my purchasing decision before the 560 came out was a mistake. I think i hadn't realized at the time that the "xx" portion of the number had a similar meaning and release schedule between generations.

      ...actually, now that i check it looks like they only started that trend with the 200 series, a year before i was making my decision. So i feel a _little_ less bad about not having figured it out at the time.

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    14. Re:Current gen vs last gen by threephaseboy · · Score: 1

      The 970 was released at $329, over $100 more than the 1060.

      How do you figure that?

      The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 will be available starting July 19th from a wide variety of third-party partners including ASUS, EVGA, Gigabyte, MSI and Zotac etc. with a starting price of $249. The NVIDIA-built GeForce GTX 1060 Founder Edition will be available for $299

      $329 - $249 = $80

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    15. Re:Current gen vs last gen by OrangeTide · · Score: 1

      Maybe he likes to leave Fry's employees a big tip?

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    16. Re:Current gen vs last gen by sexconker · · Score: 1

      You're confusing Nvidia's older generations with AMD's newer generations.

      The AMD RX 460 and RX 470 haven't launched yet. The RX 480 launched recently. The Nvidia GTX 400 series launches ages ago.

      The RX 480 has MSRPs of 200 (4 GB) and 240 (8 GB). Currently, all 4 GB cards are 8 GB cards and you can unlock them by flashing the BIOS.

      The 1060 will have MSRPs of 250 and 300. Both have 6 GB of RAM. The 300 version is the "Founder's Edition". Both allegedly launch on the 19th and Nvidia claims they expect the bulk of sales to be the non FE version (with an MSRP of 250).

      This is in contrast to the 1080 and 1070, where the bulk of sales was the FE version, the non FE versions were kept tightly under wraps until they launched, and no one had them in stock. For the 1080 and 1070, no one has reached the MSRP. Even when the cards were available (no retailer gouging), the manufacturers MSRPs have been above Nvidia's MSRP.

      If you can find an RX 480 4 GB for $200 now and flash it to get all 8 GB, that's the best option.

      Otherwise wait for reviews of the 1060 and reviews of the custom RX 480s.

      If you can wait longer, we know a 490 is coming from AMD. We also know Vega (with HBM2) is slated for early 2017. It's also expected that Nvidia will release a 1080 Ti at some point. Even if you don't want those expensive cards, their releases will cause the prices of the other cards to adjust.

    17. Re:Current gen vs last gen by ranton · · Score: 1

      Actually I thought he was replying to another post earlier in the thread, when the original author said his current card is a GTX 460. It was still my mistake though, and I am certain you are correct that the AC was referring to the RX 480.

      Although the GTX 1060 will likely beat out the RX 480 in performance by about 40% based on videocardbenchmark.net figures, so its hard to consider that the best option right now. I mean it certainly is the better option today because the GTX 1060 is not released yet, but upon release the 1060 should win in value hands down.

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    18. Re:Current gen vs last gen by amicusNYCL · · Score: 1

      That is what I thought he meant, but I don't think the logic holds up. After 2 years the new $200 cards tend to beat the previous generation which drop in price to the same price point.

      He's saying he buys the mid-tier option from the previous generation, not the high-tier option from the previous generation which is now at the current generation mid-tier price. He's saying that when the next generation of cards comes out, he'll consider the GTX 1060 (which, presumably, will be priced even lower than it was when it was new).

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    19. Re:Current gen vs last gen by Tough+Love · · Score: 1

      Is this going to be the new gold standard for the mid-price range?

      Dunno. 15% more throughput (according to nVidia) for 25% more money? Looks like AMD still wins the dollars per throughput equation.

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    20. Re:Current gen vs last gen by dtremenak · · Score: 1

      The rightmost digit was dropped from the 200 series when they reset the generation (leftmost) number, but the market position identifier has been in middle of the model number since the Geforce FX (5000 series), and it's always had roughly the same meaning. So the Geforce 7600, 8600, and 9600 were the same market position in their respective generations as the 260, 460, 560, etc, were (and it's THAT SAME market position that the 1060 occupies for Pascal). As far as release schedule, nVidia release order within generations for many years have been top-down except for the 9 market identifier, which launches late in order to double-dip from wealthy enthusiasts who might buy both the 8 and 9 cards from the same generation.

    21. Re: Current gen vs last gen by koomba · · Score: 1

      I follow video card technology/news pretty closely, so I think I have a fairly well informed opinion. But here is my take on it. Basically, what you are saying you generally do is usually not a bad strategy, if you're only looking to spend around $200. That has definitely been true the last 3 generations or so anyways. But while the hype for the new 10x0 series was of course at least a little overblown, for the most part it has actually delivered. The 1070 for example, depending on OC speed on it and the last gen top tier card, 980 ti, is basically +/- 10%. The msrp for the 1070 is $400, and 3 months ago the 980 ti was at a minimum $550, up to $600 or slightly higher for some of the really nice OC models. The 980 ti is a beast of a card, and still is. But I have to admit I was surprised the 1070 could basically match it. So assuming the 1060 delivers the same kind of relative performance, I think you'd actually be better off going with this new gen card this time. That's not always true like I said, but IMO this gen delivers more of a bump than the past few iterations. And it also doesn't hurt that AMD just released an actually competitive midrange card at the perfect time, something they hadn't been too great with last few years I don't think. So this time, I'd say the new gen is actually your best bet, particularly since it sounds like you'll probably be keeping it for 4 or 5 years. Hope that helps.

    22. Re:Current gen vs last gen by rochrist · · Score: 1

      Especially when you look at the difference in power draw.

    23. Re:Current gen vs last gen by Shirley+Marquez · · Score: 1

      The gain in power efficiency in this generation is a strong reason to go with the new card rather than one from the previous generation. The GTX 1060 will about match the current discounted price of the GTX 970, but it will consume significantly less power (and probably make less noise) doing it.

      It's a bit more expensive than the current street price of the GTX 960 (around $200), so some market for those may remain until the GTX 1050 is ready. I think we're also likely to see some street price cuts on the 960 to somewhere between $150 and $175.

    24. Re:Current gen vs last gen by Bengie · · Score: 1

      Just wait until you include the 50+ watt difference in power consumption. The price difference dissipates as quickly as its heat.

    25. Re:Current gen vs last gen by lsatenstein · · Score: 1

      20 dollars can by you a replacement fan, or even a used 460.

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    26. Re:Current gen vs last gen by iCEBaLM · · Score: 1

      The 970 was released at $329, over $100 more than the 1060.

      $329 - $249 = $80

  2. It will only be competition if you can find it in by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    The GTX 1080 and 1070 have been consistently out if stock.

  3. Niiiiice by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    TuxRacer is going to SCREEEEEEAM on this card sliding down those mountains!

  4. Re:Its all in the drivers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    You don't know what you're blathering about lol. Drivers? It's about pipelined code designed specifically to run well on Nvidia arch and penalize the competition, by design.

  5. Re:Its all in the drivers by netsavior · · Score: 0

    The end result is the same, whether the drivers are built for the game or vice versa, I can buy half the card if it is nvidia. Results are what I am after, not specs.

  6. Re:LUDDITES by ilsaloving · · Score: 1

    I don't understand how anyone can post stuff like this on every news story, day after day, without getting sanity-snapping bored....

    Or are we simply long past the "sanity-snapping" part?

  7. Re:Its all in the drivers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Lol. So you're impressed because code optimized for specific platforms runs better on those platforms and intentionally penalizes others, that's great kid. Just don't call it a benchmark.

    I'm sure you prefer Keurig-branded single-serving brew packs with DRM because they serve the flavor of nescafe you're looking for.

  8. Re:Its all in the drivers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    Found the butthurt Radeon fanboi.

  9. Enough horsepower to run an Oculus Rift well? by ChesterRafoon · · Score: 1

    That is my question of the moment.

    1. Re:Enough horsepower to run an Oculus Rift well? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

      "Enough horsepower to run an Oculus Rift well?"

      Quoting from the The Rift’s Recommended Spec:
      "For the full Rift experience, we recommend the following system: NVIDIA GTX 970 / AMD 290 equivalent or greater"

      Ars Technica writes "Faster than a GTX 980".
      PCworld even uses the title "GTX 1060 is a $250 GTX 980 killer".

      So, yes, it's easily enough to use the Rift.
      And the HTC Vive for that matter.

  10. Re: LUDDITES by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Dude went full-retard the first time he posted that shit. It's not going to get better.

  11. PCIe? by phishybongwaters · · Score: 0

    Is this card going to honor the power specifications of PCIe or crap all over them putting your mid to low end boards AND PSU at risk? No thanks, I've had enough "budget" cards.

    1. Re:PCIe? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      If the quoted TDP for the card is correct, then it should be well within the PCI-e spec for power delivered by board+6-pin (75W+75W).

    2. Re:PCIe? by Yvan256 · · Score: 1

      This is nVidia, not AMD.

    3. Re:PCIe? by Blaskowicz · · Score: 1

      Low end motherboards are often more reliable than high end ones. Much higher volumes and no funny hardware.

  12. Nope by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Competition? There is no competition. The GTX 1060 destroys the RX 480 in virtually every way.

    1. Re:Nope by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Hell, the GTX 750Ti destroys the crappy RX 480 and it's three years old. End of the line ATI, stick to what you're good at - maybe you can start a space heater company with your old chips? LOL.

    2. Re:Nope by higuita · · Score: 1

      So you read the future? where are your benchmarks, we also want to see then!

      At least wait for the benchmarks to show up before trying to look like a nvidia zealot

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    3. Re:Nope by phishybongwaters · · Score: 1

      While I'd typically agree, a quick google produces some "leaked" 3dmark scores, so yeah, he might be referencing those for the 1060. But I wouldn't reccomend buying old gen at this point, the leaps from dx10-11 are pretty big, theres so much coming down the pipes, and lets not forget Vulkan. Vulcan? whatever. Don't buy old crap but don't be the super early adopter.

    4. Re:Nope by wkwilley2 · · Score: 0

      Found the Nvidia fanboi.

      If you're going to be a coward, at least don't be an idiot.

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    5. Re:Nope by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      What are they good at? PS4 and XBONE all-in-one chips?

    6. Re:Nope by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Given it's improbable that Nvidia would release something slower than it's existing GTX 750Ti, which we know is faster than the 480, does he really need to be from the future to figure out the 1060 is better than ATI/AMD's power hogging trash chip?

      And at least Nvidia actually doesn't destroy motherboards with its overspec'd motherboard power draws.

    7. Re: Nope by K.+S.+Kyosuke · · Score: 1

      The not-destroying-motherboards part is a pretty low bar, don't you think? It's at most one step upwards from "comes in a paper box", or "displays pictures".

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    8. Re: Nope by K.+S.+Kyosuke · · Score: 1

      Seriously? Didn't they tell you that trolling is supposed to be inconspicuous?

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    9. Re:Nope by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      No, just don't use ATI. ATI hasn't made a decent graphics card since the Radeon 7500. Makes you wish Matrox was still working on good consumer level graphics card to compete with Nvidia.

      If it's a choice between ATI and nothing, I'd use Intel. The 530 HD in my i5 is faster than most ATI chips anyway, and uses way less power.

    10. Re: Nope by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Same website says the 530 isn't roughly equal to the ATI - despite it beating 90% of the carts ATI has ever made in independent tests. I'm going with "Biased website."

    11. Re:Nope by higuita · · Score: 1

      The problem with leaked scores is trust... it is not the first time someone fake some leaks (even if joking) and those quickly spread as real benchmarks.

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    12. Re: Nope by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I agree...

  13. Re: LUDDITES by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    It's going to get APPer! APPS!

  14. Re:LUDDITES by JustAnotherOldGuy · · Score: 1

    I don't understand how anyone can post stuff like this on every news story, day after day, without getting sanity-snapping bored....

    Or are we simply long past the "sanity-snapping" part?

    I prefer the "APP APP LUDDITE" goofball posts to the crap spewed by that festering anal sore "APK" and his pointless bullshit about his magical hosts file.

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  15. Re:Its all in the drivers by beelsebob · · Score: 1

    No, he's not saying he's impressed, he's saying that it doesn't matter how it happened, the nVidia card can run the games he cares about faster, and at lower power than the AMD card, so the nVidia card is the one he's going to buy.

  16. Re:LUDDITES by ArchieBunker · · Score: 1

    Is is the same guy who kept posting about cows?

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  17. Which is recommended for Linux gaming? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    Which of these are recommended for Linux gaming? I like to buy AMD when I can, but in the past, the Radeon drivers were hell to deal with, compared to NVIDIA.

    1. Re:Which is recommended for Linux gaming? by phishybongwaters · · Score: 1

      well.. there is steamOS I suppose. that counts right? RIGHT?

    2. Re:Which is recommended for Linux gaming? by wkwilley2 · · Score: 2

      I just switched to Linux about six months ago with my R9 280 and it was relatively painless.

      It wasn't really any different than installing drivers on windows besides the couple of prerequisite files I needed to check for in the terminal.

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    3. Re:Which is recommended for Linux gaming? by wkwilley2 · · Score: 0

      To answer your question though, I've heard through the vine that Nvidia drivers are easier to deal with on Linux, though I have not experienced it firsthand. I do know for sure that it is updated more frequently than AMD's which currently have 12/18/2015 as the last update, though they work without a hitch.

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    4. Re:Which is recommended for Linux gaming? by wkwilley2 · · Score: 1

      It's not really any trouble unless you love to play some AAA franchises.

      FWIW, Steam works very well on Linux and most of the games I play are native.

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    5. Re:Which is recommended for Linux gaming? by drinkypoo · · Score: 1

      It's not really any trouble unless you love to play some AAA franchises.

      So you mean, like the bulk of the market? This situation may improve as we move towards Vulkan but it's still real, and still annoying.

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    6. Re:Which is recommended for Linux gaming? by drinkypoo · · Score: 3, Interesting

      Which of these are recommended for Linux gaming? I like to buy AMD when I can, but in the past, the Radeon drivers were hell to deal with, compared to NVIDIA.

      That's basically still how it is. The Linux driver performance is substantially worse than the Windows driver. You should stick with nVidia for gaming on Linux. I am only using ye olde Asus GTS 450 OC on my Linux box, but it works a treat. I am a cheap bastard so my Windows box only has a 1GB Zotac 750Ti, which is currently out for RMA.

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    7. Re:Which is recommended for Linux gaming? by wkwilley2 · · Score: 1

      So you mean, like the bulk of the market?

      You're right, it doesn't apply to me, but I know alot of gamers that it would apply to.

      We're starting to see a shift now and some of those large studios are developing for Linux now, but it's still to few in number, and that doesn't even count the complications added in with coding for OpenGL instead of DirectX.

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    8. Re:Which is recommended for Linux gaming? by D.McG. · · Score: 3, Interesting

      LOL Complications?
      Valve: OpenGL is faster than DirectX — even on Windows (20% faster)
      Bringing Unreal Engine 4 to OpenGL
      The only reason developers should consider DirectX at this point is if they need to run on an XBONE.

    9. Re:Which is recommended for Linux gaming? by NewWorldDan · · Score: 1

      Now I'm left to wonder if the infamous Radeon mouse cursor corruption bug also exists on Linux. That damn thing has been around for more than a decade and I'm not buying another Radeon unless it gets fixed.

    10. Re:Which is recommended for Linux gaming? by Blaskowicz · · Score: 1

      Hell, even Doom 1 and 2, Quake 1, 2 and 3 are not sold on Steam Linux although these games pioneered Linux gaming.

      It also sucks how gaming requires hundreds of dollars in upgrades that are of no use for most everything else (browsing, documents, watching video etc.). Why spend big bucks for a gaming linux desktop?, you could either get a Windows desktop instead (same hardware with Windows installed) or a console. The Windows desktop not only has more games, it makes it trivially easy to run Quake 1, 2, 3, Doom 1, 2 and 4 etc.

    11. Re:Which is recommended for Linux gaming? by Tough+Love · · Score: 2

      To answer your question though, I've heard through the vine that Nvidia drivers are easier to deal with on Linux, though I have not experienced it firsthand.

      The AMD proprietary drivers (fglrx/catalyst) are roughly equivalent to nVidia in terms of stability and upgrade hassle, while the AMD open source driver (Radeon/AMDGPU) is the least hassle experience. Maybe Valve knows this for sure, but my impression is that most Linux AMD users stick with the default open source driver these days because the performance gap has closed up to the point that convenience outweighs it. Personally, I have had zero issues with the AMD open source drivers for several years on a variety of systems and haven't felt any motivation to switch in the closed source drivers, though some people might care if they need the latest OpenGL version right now, or more throughput for some corner case. Basically, reasons for using the closed AMD driver are fading away fast and likely will be gone completely in the current development cycle where we expect Vulkan and OpenGL 4.5 to land in the open source stack.

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    12. Re:Which is recommended for Linux gaming? by Tough+Love · · Score: 1

      That's basically still how it is. The Linux driver performance is substantially worse than the Windows driver.

      True mainly when the Linux port is actually a Direct3D wrapper. For a decent native port there are already cases where Linux soundly beats Windows, for example, here where Dota 2 on Linux with OpenGL 3.3 beats Windows DX11 by a wide margin. Not just that, but if you follow the Dota 2 scene, you know that Windows network lag and game crashes are painful and regular. About time to enjoy some of that buttery smooth Linux network experience and rock solid stability, don't you think? Especially when serious money is involved.

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    13. Re:Which is recommended for Linux gaming? by Tough+Love · · Score: 1

      Now I'm left to wonder if the infamous Radeon mouse cursor corruption bug also exists on Linux.

      Fixed last year. Catalyst bug, I have been running the open source driver for the last few years so I never saw it.

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    14. Re:Which is recommended for Linux gaming? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Oh, finally! That's been irritating me for years too. Never knew what caused it, though interestingly it happens in Windows too, on the same machine, so it must be part of the shared code for both systems.

    15. Re:Which is recommended for Linux gaming? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      LOL Complications?

      Valve: OpenGL is faster than DirectX — even on Windows (20% faster)

      Bringing Unreal Engine 4 to OpenGL

      The only reason developers should consider DirectX at this point is if they need to run on an XBONE.

      Funny you bring up Unreal Engine 4. UE4 is not currently at feature parity between OpenGL and DirectX11. My studio continues working with DX11 exclusively primarily for this reason. (Vulkan support will probably turn this around, but I'm assuming it's a year or two until Epic solidifies their support). We have no interest in supporting OS X, Linux, or Windows XP, so there's no good reason not to work with DX11 anyways.

    16. Re:Which is recommended for Linux gaming? by Tukz · · Score: 1

      This is exactly why I went with a nVidia when upgrading this generation, I've had a lot of issues with my AMD on Linux.

      I have a dual boot, so I mainly game in Windows, but only because I'm lacking the option to run the game in Linux.
      Those I can run in Linux, I do. But the Radeon drivers are really giving me problems and I've tried a few.

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    17. Re:Which is recommended for Linux gaming? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Linus recommends Nvidia

  18. 15% performance increase by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    For 25% increase in cost.

    When comparing, one shouldn't forget the 480 has a higher end model.

    1. Re:15% performance increase by Anubis+IV · · Score: 3, Interesting

      The article says, "NVIDIA claims that the GTX is on average 15 percent faster than its closest competitor (i.e. the Radeon RX 480)", leaving it ambiguous as to which model they were referring. Given the pricing (4GB 480 for $200, 8GB 480 for $240, 6GB 1060 for $250), we'd assume that the 15% increase would be over the $240 RX 480, since it's the closest competitor in terms of price, but NVIDIA may be using some coy phrasing to compare the 1060 against a fictional mid-level RX 480 that averages the capabilities of the 4GB and 8GB models.

      If it really is achieving a 15% increase over the $240 RX 480, then that's substantial, especially so considering that it does so "while also being over 75 percent more power efficient [than its closest competitor]", because at that point you'd be paying just $10 for a noticeable performance boost that would pay for itself over time from power savings. They'd sweep the legs completely from underneath the high-end 480. But if it's actually just 15% faster than a fictional, mid-level model or the 4GB model, that's substantially less impressive.

      I'm eagerly awaiting the benchmarks.

    2. Re:15% performance increase by ShooterNeo · · Score: 1

      Both models are indistinguishable in performance. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

      TLDR : the only game that shows a difference is one where the 480 doesn't have enough GPU power to render the higher resolution textures that eat up more than 4gb of VRAM.

  19. Re:It will only be competition if you can find it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    A quick check of Newegg shows 4 different models of the 1070 in stock, and 2 different models of the 1080.

  20. Re:LUDDITES by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    "You're talking to moo?"

  21. Re:LUDDITES by blackomegax · · Score: 1

    Pure autism.

  22. Ditto the 480 by phorm · · Score: 1

    Most of the stores around here are similarly out of stock on the RX 480.

  23. Re:Its all in the drivers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    it takes double the power for a Raedon to match the performance of a Geforce in games that I care about (like fallout 4).

    Would you provide some links to benchmarks? Your double claim looks like a stretch.

  24. Re:It will only be competition if you can find it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Sold by third-party scalpers, WAY above the MSRP.

  25. Re:Its all in the drivers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    LOL. Astroturfers say the damnest things...

  26. GloFo 14nm vs TSMC 16nm by Ecuador · · Score: 2

    Anybody has any idea whether GloFo's 14nm FinFET has some sort of disadvantage vs TSMC's 16nm? Otherwise it looks quite bad for the AMD engineers when they have to use more power than a much faster GTX 1070 and also max out at around 1.3GHz when nVidia pulls 2GHz...
    And this is from a longtime AMD/ATI fan, mainly because I attribute to AMD/ATI the fact that through the competition they kept Intel & nVidia coming up with new stuff at decent price points, so it saddens me to see them lagging behind the last few years...

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    1. Re:GloFo 14nm vs TSMC 16nm by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      The difference in perf/w is actually pretty minor if you look outside games; the RX 480 delivers 5161 GFLOPS and the 1070 does 5783 (Both at base clock), and their memory bandwidth is the same. It's a real shame that they haven't been able to tap all that power in games, but they're still fairly competitive as far as GPGPU goes.

    2. Re:GloFo 14nm vs TSMC 16nm by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      but they're still fairly competitive as far as GPGPU goes.

      That's it when nVidia releases Cuda 8 so that anything can be computed at all with the existing Cuda applications and any kind of "fair" comparison can be made. Not that it matters much as CPCPU market is purposefully segmented by nVidia to maximize profits and comparisons are meaningful only within an ecosystem for non-custom software. Portable performance still means only portability between GPU generations.

    3. Re:GloFo 14nm vs TSMC 16nm by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Yes, AMD is in big trouble, they got into the same situation they got with CPUs (but not as bad yet). They are currently one generation behind Nvidia, and without the DirectX 12.1 feature set. See: https://scalibq.wordpress.com/2016/06/04/the-damage-that-amd-marketing-does/

    4. Re:GloFo 14nm vs TSMC 16nm by Tough+Love · · Score: 3, Interesting

      Anybody has any idea whether GloFo's 14nm FinFET has some sort of disadvantage vs TSMC's 16nm? Otherwise it looks quite bad for the AMD engineers when they have to use more power than a much faster GTX 1070...

      AMD's product is released and independently tested while nVidia's is only announced, so take those claims with a grain of salt. I believe the technical term for the situation is "FUD". Even if you accept nVidia's claims at face value, the 480 still comes out as great value and is shipping now. I guess the market agrees because the initial production run seems to be mostly sold out.

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    5. Re:GloFo 14nm vs TSMC 16nm by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      The question was about the already released GTX 1070, a larger, faster chip that despite that draws less power and clocks 50% higher than the RX 480. If they are on an equivalent process, it would mean an engineering issue. Or is GloFo's 14nm node not as good as the TSMC 16nm?

    6. Re:GloFo 14nm vs TSMC 16nm by Tough+Love · · Score: 1

      The question was about the already released GTX 1070, a larger, faster chip that despite that draws less power and clocks 50% higher than the RX 480.

      Ah. I seriously doubt that the measured power consumption of the GTX 1070 really stays below 150 watts running at top clock speed. Oddly enough, I see the reviewers just accepting nVidia's claims without reporting actual measurements, in contrast to the current tempest in a teapot over the RX 480.

      If they are on an equivalent process, it would mean an engineering issue. Or is GloFo's 14nm node not as good as the TSMC 16nm?

      It's GloFo+Samsung, by the way. Speculation about the relative merits of the processes is just speculation until we see a lot better, trustworthy real life measurements. What we know for sure is that the two products are nowhere near the same price.

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    7. Re:GloFo 14nm vs TSMC 16nm by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Ah. I seriously doubt that the measured power consumption of the GTX 1070 really stays below 150 watts running at top clock speed. Oddly enough, I see the reviewers just accepting nVidia's claims without reporting actual measurements, in contrast to the current tempest in a teapot over the RX 480.

      Not sure why you say that. I don't remember a GTX 1070 rail test specifically (but at least HardOCP had a full-system test, which was as expected), but e.g. Tom's GTX 1080 power test was as rigorous as the RX 480, testing all rails separately etc, and it was staying under its specified 180 Watt on average. If there was a weird measurement, people would be all over nVidia as well...

    8. Re:GloFo 14nm vs TSMC 16nm by Tough+Love · · Score: 1

      Ah. I seriously doubt that the measured power consumption of the GTX 1070 really stays below 150 watts running at top clock speed. Oddly enough, I see the reviewers just accepting nVidia's claims without reporting actual measurements, in contrast to the current tempest in a teapot over the RX 480.

      Not sure why you say that.

      The numbers. RX 480 is 5.7b transistors at 14nm, GTX 1070 is 7.2b at 16nm. Both engineering teams are top in their field, I doubt anybody seriously dropped the ball on architecture. And so far there are no reports of glaring deficiencies of the 14nm process. The nVidia part is clocked 35% higher. So: more transistors, higher clock speed, larger process, but the same or less power consumption? Doesn't add up, not even close. This leaves measurement error or as the likely explanation. BTW, I'm a big fan of both engineering organizations, but I like the AMD product more because I benefit from the open source driver. I hope this healthy competition runs far into the future and continues the trend to more powerful, cooler running and inexpensive graphics.

      I don't remember a GTX 1070 rail test specifically (but at least HardOCP had a full-system test, which was as expected), but e.g. Tom's GTX 1080 power test was as rigorous as the RX 480, testing all rails separately etc, and it was staying under its specified 180 Watt on average. If there was a weird measurement, people would be all over nVidia as well...

      I guess there's going to be a flurry of retesting on all fronts, should be fun.

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    9. Re:GloFo 14nm vs TSMC 16nm by Tough+Love · · Score: 1

      Actually, here's another theory: they were running the reference cards over-volted to be conservative, given that the yield ramp on the new process node likely created a shortage of parts that run reliably at lower voltage. Now, with a little more time to establish the safe operating limits, they sent out their update to reduce the operating voltage. Whatever, it's a niggle, the big news about this part is the price.

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    10. Re:GloFo 14nm vs TSMC 16nm by Ecuador · · Score: 1

      The numbers. RX 480 is 5.7b transistors at 14nm, GTX 1070 is 7.2b at 16nm. Both engineering teams are top in their field, I doubt anybody seriously dropped the ball on architecture. And so far there are no reports of glaring deficiencies of the 14nm process. The nVidia part is clocked 35% higher. So: more transistors, higher clock speed, larger process, but the same or less power consumption? Doesn't add up, not even close. This leaves measurement error or as the likely explanation.

      There is no measurement error. This has already been proven by various publications, some measure power on the rails, others power on the socket, you can't mess up that kind of measurement, it is very simple. The RX 480 with less transistors, less clock speed, less performance for most things uses the same power as the GTX 1070, and I am asking why? I guess only insiders would really know why, but my one guess was some sort of issue with the 14nm process, hence my question.

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    11. Re:GloFo 14nm vs TSMC 16nm by Tough+Love · · Score: 1

      The RX 480 with less transistors, less clock speed, less performance for most things uses the same power as the GTX 1070, and I am asking why? I guess only insiders would really know why, but my one guess was some sort of issue with the 14nm process, hence my question.

      Given that AMD's recent fix mainly lowered the operating voltage, it would seem that the parts were running over-volted, perhaps a conservative strategy adopted for yield reasons on the relatively new process node. So, indirectly it would be an issue with the process, the same as any new process: the yield curve. Otherwise, Samsung has been shipping the 14nm Snapdragon 820 in the S7 for some time, it seems the process node is pretty solid. There is some chatter out there that there is room to optimize the 14nm finfet design, so we can look forward to a refresh to further close the gap with Intel's process, which still has a slight advantage.

      Anyway, we're discussing a few percent this way or that, which hardly changes the main equation: it's hard to argue about the RX 480 price point.

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  27. Re:It will only be competition if you can find it by ranton · · Score: 1

    A quick check of Newegg shows 4 different models of the 1070 in stock, and 2 different models of the 1080.

    In all fairness those are not the versions of the 1070 you want to buy. None of the versions you want will be back in stock until July 16th, if Amazon's dates are correct. Still not that bad of a wait.

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  28. It's actually not very good competition by drinkypoo · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The GeForce GTX 1060 can be seen as a direct response to the AMD Radeon RX 480, which offers a ton of performance at the $200 price point.

    I disagree strongly. I'm in the market for a new video card to replace my 750 Ti, which is currently out for RMA. It only has 1GB on it, and that's starting to be a problem for me, so I'm looking at moving up to a whole 2GB or so. I've been a fairly loyal nVidia customer basically all along; After the PowerVR and the Voodoo and Voodoo 2, I owned the TNT, and the TNT2, and went on to own every other generation of geforce from the 2 up until now. (I skipped the original, I had a Permedia 2 AGP 8GB then, which was just slightly slower but which had much better image quality.) Every so often I tried an ATI card, and the results were always disastrous. Twiddled DnA drivers made ATI cards more or less usable in the bad, sad early days of Catalyst, but they were always a bigger PITA than nVidia.

    On the other hand, many people say that AMD has come a long way with the drivers, and the hardware actually seems to have offered competitive performance for some time now. In practice, the RX480 has not caused anyone any problems yet, aside from some texture flashing in water in Crysis 3 when used in a Crossfire configuration (watched the video this morning.) PCI-SIG members say that the RX480 isn't going to burn out anyone's motherboard traces or their power supply any more than any other common GPU, many of which play fast and loose with the standards. Meanwhile the 1060 doesn't support SLI, costs 20% more, and offers maybe 15% better performance. I don't see that as a credible competitor. I can buy one RX480 now (or perhaps in a few more days when the release of the 1060 knocks the price down slightly) and then pick up another one later if I want to do 4k or I find that I just need more grunt to run some game. I can't do that with the 1060.

    I'm still leery of buying an AMD card, and probably will wait for partner RX480s to come out before I consider it seriously. The stock GPU cooler on the RX480 is a bit garbage, and I don't want to go to water cooling; I already have a massive air cooler in my system and plan to stick with it. But since Crysis 3 in 4k aside there seems to be no actual problem so far with even dual RX480s in crossfire and overclocked they seem to be a credible option, and I'm thinking of cuddling one of them up to my FX-8350/990FX-Gaming system real soon now, with plans for another one at a later date when they're even cheaper.

    Given my history with AMD/ATI graphics, which is unfortunate, I'm still leery of this plan and might just buy one fat GPU up front, but I really don't need that much GPU right now and I don't particularly want to pay for it. But the 1060 is not even in the running if it doesn't include SLI.

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    1. Re:It's actually not very good competition by Howitzer86 · · Score: 1

      Maybe get a 970? $300 and falling, 4gb, 1664 cuda cores, 1050-1178 MHz, with just a small problem in that the highest bits of memory is slower than the rest - I forget how much of it but I haven't noticed any slowdown in my gaming (SLI configuration).

    2. Re:It's actually not very good competition by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      If you've got enough money to buy a 970 you may as well just buy a 1060 which will be cheaper and perform better.

    3. Re:It's actually not very good competition by D.McG. · · Score: 1

      Meanwhile the 1060 doesn't support SLI, costs 20% more, and offers maybe 15% better performance. I don't see that as a credible competitor. I can buy one RX480 now (or perhaps in a few more days when the release of the 1060 knocks the price down slightly) and then pick up another one later if I want to do 4k or I find that I just need more grunt to run some game. I can't do that with the 1060.

      Two cards in SLI do not provide 100% more performance than one card; on average maybe 80% more, depending on game and resolution. A GTX 1060 has half the cores of a GTX 1080, at a little less than half the price. I see that you want the option to upgrade, but if you eventually want 2x1060 in SLI just buy a 1080 for the same number of cores. It's 20% more expensive ($600 vs $250 x2) but 20% more performant than the same number of cores in SLI would be.

    4. Re:It's actually not very good competition by drinkypoo · · Score: 3, Informative

      Two cards in SLI do not provide 100% more performance than one card; on average maybe 80% more, depending on game and resolution.

      Looks like it's closer to 90% for the RX480s.

      I see that you want the option to upgrade, but if you eventually want 2x1060 in SLI just buy a 1080 for the same number of cores. It's 20% more expensive

      This is why I'm looking at an AMD card again... because nVidia's answer is always "spend more money"

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    5. Re:It's actually not very good competition by Blaskowicz · · Score: 1

      Dual GPU means more latency and twice the bullshit.

      4K is also a crap ton of pixels you might as well avoid unless you're a developer with 20 xterm opened or a spreadsheet professional who uses spreadsheet software with a UI that scales arbitrarily.
      If 1080p is okay for work, I believe a 1080p 144Hz would maximize the gaming value, if good antialiasing can be used too.

    6. Re:It's actually not very good competition by drinkypoo · · Score: 1

      Well, guess what? I just heard back on the RMA of my 750 Ti 1GB. Zotac doesn't have any of those lying around, so they're going to send me a GTX 950 AMP! 2GB, which is a pre-overclocked dual-fan 950... which does support SLI. So it looks like I am going SLI, but I'm staying nVidia.

      Dual GPU does mean more latency, but not twice the latency or anything silly like that, and I'm not using any annoying input devices which will compound the problem. It does mean more bullshit, but I don't know about twice. My PS already has an adequate cable and enough headroom for another GPU, so that's no big deal either.

      If I buy another monitor, I'm definitely going to 4k. Right now I have a couple of 25.5" 1920x1200 IPS displays to choose from. One is a Viewsonic which has really awful persistence but Adobe gamma (120% of sRGB) and the other is a Samsung 2693HM with three or so dead pixels kind of in the middle of the display, and 100% sRGB... both as verified with my i1 Display LT. Each cost me fifty bucks. It's kind of hard to justify a new monitor without going 4k, or getting it really cheap anyway. It's also got to be a bit bigger at that point, say 32" or so. I had a 32" SHARP AQUOS TV for a monitor for a little while, and that's a good size, but I needed more dots. I didn't have a colorimeter then so I don't know how good its color actually was, but the 52" AQUOS we have in the living room has 100% sRGB.

      I suspect I will probably stick with this monitor. If I score another cheap 25.5 or another good 20" 1680x1050 I will probably go to triple-display. I have two 20" 1680x1050 displays now, albeit in two different gammas. I have one more 1680x1050, but it's 19" and that just didn't cut the mustard. IMO multi-display only works well in odd numbers and with identical resolutions, or I'd be doing it now.

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    7. Re: It's actually not very good competition by D.McG. · · Score: 1

      To be fair, you cut my quote in half. It's 20% more performant for 20% more cost, at fewer watts. Seems like a win to me. I have a 30" 2560x1600 monitor, so I need to push twice the pixels. I'm looking at a GTX 1080.

    8. Re:It's actually not very good competition by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      "PCI-SIG members say that the RX480 isn't going to burn out anyone's motherboard traces or their power supply"

      Those aren't the components to be concerned about. You should be concerned about the motherboard power filtering components.

    9. Re:It's actually not very good competition by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You obviously haven't spent time using a 4k display. I've had one for almost a year now and I won't go back. Everything is crisper/sharper because of the higher pixel density, which makes reading text much easier.

      And for the most part, my 970 under Linux can drive games at 4k, but I'm still considering moving up to a 1070 because of the 50% speed bump. There's enough games that can't quite perform at acceptable frame rates at 4k resolution due to the 970.

  29. Holding out for fanless by pjrc · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Hopefully soon they'll follow up with an even lower power 1050 card.

    I always buy the very best fanless card for my Linux (no games) deskop. When a better one comes along, I buy it.

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    1. Re:Holding out for fanless by OrangeTide · · Score: 1

      Is there any reason for you not to use Intel's integrated graphics?

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    2. Re:Holding out for fanless by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You can get "0db" GeForce 970 cards like this:

      http://www.technologyx.com/featured/asus-strix-gtx-970-oc-review-silent-deadly/

      don't know if something similar exist for the new generation yet.

    3. Re:Holding out for fanless by cdrudge · · Score: 1

      If all you do is standard office tasks, probably not.. If you do graphics intensive applications (image editing, video editing, CAD, etc) or applications that can benefit from offloading tasks to GPU (via whatever technology/cores/execution units/stream processors the cards offer), then possibly/probably but the improvement may not be worth the extra cost, power, and or noise that comes with the discrete GPU.

    4. Re:Holding out for fanless by OrangeTide · · Score: 1

      Blender works reasonable well for me on Intel HD, but I'm not a very sophisticated blender user.

      (PS - my salary is tied to how many GPUs people buy)

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    5. Re:Holding out for fanless by Tukz · · Score: 1

      Several of the custom boards for 1070/1080 comes with a fan that turns off when not under high load.

      Both MSI Gaming and ASUS STRIX has 0db mode when not under heavy load.

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    6. Re:Holding out for fanless by TeknoHog · · Score: 1

      If you do graphics intensive applications (image editing, video editing, CAD, etc) or applications that can benefit from offloading tasks to GPU (via whatever technology/cores/execution units/stream processors the cards offer), then possibly/probably but the improvement may not be worth the extra cost, power, and or noise that comes with the discrete GPU.

      What do you mean by offloading? In my experience, image and video editing don't use enough GPU power to justify a discrete card. The main work is done on CPUs, and some OpenGL features might be used for filtering. Unless, of course, you offload the actual work to GPUs as well.

      Even so, today's Intel graphics do plenty of OpenGL (see shameless plug for example). CAD will generally benefit from "real" GPUs due to better conformance/precision, not so much due to raw speed; see this Intel HD bug for example.

      Video encoding/decoding might be a useful offload, but software will give you much better encoding quality. Hardware encoding is mainly useful if you need real-time encoding for live streaming. Hardware decoding is more generally useful and you'll find it on many Intel HDs too.

      Heavier Open[CG]L is an obvious reason to get a discrete GPU, but anything else, not so much.

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  30. Re:It will only be competition if you can find it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    ...and yet I own a 1070 and it was only backordered by one week, so what are you doing wrong? You do understand you can buy them from more than one place right?

  31. +15% faster versus +25% the price by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    The base model R480 is $200. The 8GB version is $230.

    I'll have to wait for some real-world tests to see how well each one does.

  32. Re:Its all in the drivers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    As pointed out, it depends on which games one plays. Since we don't know (or care) which games you play, STFU.

  33. Re:It will only be competition if you can find it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Uh, no. Sold by Newegg, for the MSRP.

  34. Re:It will only be competition if you can find it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    my only comment on this is that, due to the way binning works, it's unlikely there will be massive shortages of the 1060.

  35. Three monitor gaming? by Steve1952 · · Score: 1

    Are these latest cards capable of three monitor gaming from one card? Here assume that each monitor is a standard 1920 x 1080.

    1. Re:Three monitor gaming? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      The GTX 1080 definitely is more than capable; not sure about the 1060, but I'd guess it might be able to since it has the same three DisplayPort connections as the 1080. According to this review I found from some guy, the GTX 1080 "supports up to 16 simultaneous viewports in one pass," which I gather could mean separate monitors.

    2. Re:Three monitor gaming? by ezelkow1 · · Score: 1

      No, that viewport rendering is for VR speed improvements. 16 views of the same camera angle in a single pass for multi-eye renders

      The 1060 will support multiple monitors though, as you said it has the same output support of 1DVI/1HDMI/3DP (and thats before any AIB changes as asus has a 2hdmi/2dp 1080 and gigabyte has an hdmi add-on board that disables a dp port)

  36. Underdog by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I want ATI to do well, to provide stiff competition and drive the market. I root for them as an underdog, but I've never had a good ATI card.

    I had an underperforming Rage 128 in 98, a buggy All-in-Wonder, and the Radron I have in my MacBook Pro was underwhelming when it was released in 2011.

    Driver quality and performance have always been an issue so how am I meant to get behind them based on past experience,

  37. Re:It will only be competition if you can find it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I walked right into the Twin Cities Micro Center and bought a Founders Edition GTX 1080 almost a month ago right off the shelf. So, don't say they are unavailable. You just have to go to the store instead of hitting up all the popular online parts sites.

  38. How Does It Compare to The GTX 980 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    How does this card compare to the GTX 980, which seems to be at least twice the price! $500-900

  39. Re:LUDDITES by amicusNYCL · · Score: 1

    I would guess that sexconker (the cow guy) is also the app guy. It's the same brand of repetitious high comedy that he seems to enjoy.

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  40. Re:Its all in the drivers by amicusNYCL · · Score: 1

    Just don't call it a benchmark.

    No one said anything about benchmarks, it's "results". Actual results are what matter, not a number that says what should theoretically happen.

    At least I have a card that works AND games well on linux with open drivers.

    That's fantastic, how are you enjoying playing Fallout 4 on Linux? Or, wait, you wouldn't use Steam on Linux, because it's not open and everything that isn't open has backdoors, and you're not a cuck, therefore you only and exclusively use open software. So which games do you play, exactly?

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  41. Re:It will only be competition if you can find it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Not in my search results they're not.

  42. Re: It will only be competition if you can find it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    A thousand times this

  43. Is this price..... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Actually realistic? I think initially they had a starting price of $369 (something close) for the 1070s and its difficult to find one under the $430 mark.

  44. Re:Its all in the drivers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    That's fantastic, how are you enjoying playing Fallout 4 on Linux? Or, wait, you wouldn't use Steam on Linux, because it's not open and everything that isn't open has backdoors, and you're not a cuck, therefore you only and exclusively use open software. So which games do you play, exactly?

    I'm a Linux guy that has come from the Windows world. I've never really understood the rabid hatred of all DRM, and proprietary drivers.

    Steam/Netflix etc is all pretty non intrusive DRM, and actually quite handy. And I personally have no problems using drivers written by the manufacturer. It's never bothered me that they aren't open. Sure, it would be nice and all if they were, but I can understand why they would choose not to do so.

    What's a cuck?

  45. You missed out on the 9800 line by rsilvergun · · Score: 1

    and it's die shrunk counterpart the X1650. Amazing performance and image quality. But you're right, after that stability went to hell. I'd love to see someone put a modern mid-range Radeon through a large Steam library's worth of gaming and report back on Stability.

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  46. Re:It will only be competition if you can find it by ezelkow1 · · Score: 1

    +1

    Walked in to the denver microcenter to pick up a raspberry pi for a project, figured id see if 1080's were in stock, they had FE's as well as the asus strix that I had been hoping to get. Had about 5-10 of each at the time and this was a week ago

  47. Re:Its all in the drivers by rochrist · · Score: 1

    It's an incredibly stupid insult, a shortening of 'cuckold'.

  48. JustAnotherOLDBitch: Google's stooge by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    See subject: Prove me wrong Mr. webmaster likes "AlmostALLAdsBlocked" not blocking Google ads he's paid by.

    (He could care less about you & if ads get thru that infect you with malicious code, but he sure does for the pennies he might make on his tiny unknown websites (which he won't tell us which ones those are as I bet we'd LAUGH @ HIM))!

    * QUESTION: What have YOU DONE BETTER than my hosts file program? ANSWER = NOTHING!

    APK

    P.S.=> Above all else, accept this: There is LITERALLY NOTHING YOU CAN DO to stop me posting about what you can't prove me wrong on - hosts files (which do 16++X as much as "AlmostALLAdsBlocked" & for 100x less) - All you can manage is your little "bitch tactics" talking about me behind my back! apk

  49. Re:It will only be competition if you can find it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I walked right into the Twin Cities Micro Center and bought a Founders Edition GTX 1080 almost a month ago right off the shelf. So, don't say they are unavailable.

    Just checked the same store, and they're sold out.

    "They are unavailable." :)