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