NVIDIA Announces GeForce GTX 1060: Starting at $249, Available July 19th
by Ryan Smith on July 7, 2016 9:00 AM ESTNVIIDA Ansel, Simultaneous Multi-Projection, & VR Funhouse Status Updates
Along with today’s news about the GeForce GTX 1060 launch, NVIDIA is also offering updated news on a few of their technologies and related software projects.
We’ll start with Ansel, NVIDIA’s 360 degree high-resolution screenshot composition and capture technology. After initially announcing it alongside the GTX 1080 as part of their Pascal technology briefing, the company is announcing that it will finally be shipping in select games this month, with the first of those shipping today. The first two games to get Ansel-enabled will be DICE’s Mirror’s Edge: Catalyst and CD Projekt Red’s The Witcher 3. Ansel support for Mirror’s Edge is launching today (or as NVIDIA’s press release puts it, “immediate availability”), meanwhile The Witcher 3 will get support added later this month.
As the tech requires vendors to integrate it into games and game engines on a case-by-case basis, this is a gradual rollout, but one NVIDIA is hoping to accelerate over time. The company has already lined up a half dozen additional games that will support the technology, including Unreal Tournament and No Man’s Sky, but they are not announcing an availability date at this time.
Meanwhile, in a more general status update on their Simultaneous Multi-Projection technology, NVIDIA is announcing that they have lined up both Unity and Epic Games to add support for the technology to their respective Unity and Unreal Engine 4 game engines. To that end the company is also confirming that over 30 games are now in development to implement the technology, including Epic’s Unreal Tournament.
Besides being a marquee feature of the Pascal architecture, simultaneous multi-projection is seen by NVIDIA as a key element in establishing a lead in the VR market. Though the full benefits of the technology remain to be seen, any potential performance advantage would be in their favor, and we should expect to see it significantly promoted alongside the GTX 1060, which will be NVIIDA’s entry-level VR card. Of course as developers need to implement the technology first, which is why for NVIDIA is it so important to get developers on-board and to make sure potential customers are aware.
Finally, speaking of VR, NVIDIA is also announcing that their big tech demo for Pascal, VR Funhouse, will be shipping this month. Unveiled alongside Ansel and SMP at the Pascal launch, VR Funhouse is built on Unreal Engine 4 and is meant to serve as a testbed for NVIDIA’s latest GameWorks/VRWorks technologies, including SMP and VRWorks Audio. The tech demo will be released on Steam later this month and will support the GTX 1060 and above. Though Pascal owners will want to take note that as this is a VR demo, it will require a VR headset – specifically, the HTC Vive – in order to use it.
Meanwhile NVIDIA has also confirmed that the source code to VR Funhouse will be opened up to developers. Though the primarily goal here is to allow developers to add additional attractions/modules to the tech demo, more broadly speaking it’s another means to help encourage developer adoption of GameWorks/VRWorks, giving developers a starting point for using the various technologies in NVIDIA’s libraries.
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Xanavi - Thursday, July 7, 2016 - link
You should declare moral bankruptcy.Xanavi - Thursday, July 7, 2016 - link
My roommate just got the reference RX480. Blowing games out of the water, quietly, and stably with the CD drivers. AMD's biggest problem is people like you.cocochanel - Saturday, July 9, 2016 - link
It's not just that. All the people that are constantly whining about this card definitely have an agenda, and it's a simple one. To lower the sales. They have 5-6 sticking points and they keep throwing them in anyone's face no matter what. Here they are:1. Power consumption is horrible. It'll blow your PSU to pieces. Message or hint ? Don't buy it.
2. Well, they did release a driver which solved the problem, but power consumption is still horrible. Message or hint ? Don't buy it.
3. That 6-pin is an abomination. Hint here ? Don't buy it.
4. There are not enough DX12 games at this moment, and the ones that are, well, they are half-assed jobs ( how games like Call of Duty Infinity Warfare or Battlefield 1 are half-assed it's not being explained ) Message here ? Don't buy it.
5. The card is still out of spec. ( whatever that means ) Message here ? Don't buy it.
6. It was build with cheap parts, that's why the price is so low. It's a piece of junk. Never mind the warranty that comes with the product. Message here ?
Don't buy it.
No matter what happens and no matter what everyone thinks, just don't buy it.
The problem for Nvidia is this. With cards like RX480 performing so well in DX12 games and VR who is going to wait for months until the GTX 1060 shows up and who is going to spend $600-$900 on the GTX1070/1080 who are so hard to find ? Not too many, that's for sure.
So what do they do ? Send the wrecking squad loose and hammer away at it until the damage is done. How low can you go ?
Cygni - Thursday, July 7, 2016 - link
Dear Forum Warriors, nobody cares about your deep personally held prejudices about fuckin' GPU manufacturers. We also don't give a shit about your choice in consoles, or operating systems, or telephones. Go with christ my child, god bless.JoeyJoJo123 - Thursday, July 7, 2016 - link
+1, upvoted, liked, subscribed, retweeted, reblogged.ruthan - Thursday, July 7, 2016 - link
Christ.. bleh, that is solution.. I wish that all religious people in the world would be the GPU fanatics .. How beautiful world it would be.doggface - Thursday, July 7, 2016 - link
Thanks for saying what we all thought. +1l1gold - Thursday, July 7, 2016 - link
Well, to be really honest you got some valid points. However, Nvidia wouldn't had launched the 1060 until October and you would still have to wait till Nov - Dec to be able to buy it to a price point close to the MRSP whereas you can buy the Radeon 480 now for the MRSP, thanks to AMD Nvidia had to shoot in the foot with its 980 inventory stock having only 2 months to get rid of it.Additionally, there are no reviews yet, and you can't be really conviced about no drivers issue since Nvidia have had its fair amount of problems with drivers too.
I got a 480 because I didn't wanted to pay premium prices for the performance of the 1080 (and even 1070) basically because Im not planning on playing 4K, like 90% of the rest of the people (at this point in time) and didn't wanted to wait for Nvidia's alternative, which is going to be a reality at least 2 months from now.
You have to also be happy that there is an AMD which pushes Nvidia to be competitive with pricing and advance in technology. Nvidia could had easily sold the 1080 in the 1000 usd price range without any competition. I mean its cool that you are happy with your nvidia purchase and is almost normal, that people defend the things that they use (its a mind game your brain play with you), but there is no point on trash talking the competition, cuz they are the cause, your brand new 10xx card is at least affordable, you should be grateful with Amd.
vladx - Thursday, July 7, 2016 - link
I seriously doubt RX 480 affected the release date of GTX 1060. What I'm sure it did affect is the MSRP price which would've been 299$ instead of being the Founders Edition price.przemo_li - Friday, July 8, 2016 - link
Sure... Its not like Nvidia ever waited like 6 months after release of 980/880/780 to follow up with 960/860/760 ;)Never. No. Really.
Nvidia felt no pressure what so ever. ;)