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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fanofanand - Thursday, July 7, 2016 - link
He was addressing the original post in that sub-thread which declared "the end is nigh" for AMD. I get what you are saying and fanboyism is annoying at best, but his comments were not off-topic for the sub-thread. To make things worse, your comment literally adds zero to the discussion either. Pot calling the kettle black methinks?JoeyJoJo123 - Thursday, July 7, 2016 - link
>To make things worse, your comment literally adds zero to the discussion either. Pot calling the kettle black methinks?Says the kettle?
My point is that there's no reason to argue with a fanboy's opinion. They can believe the end is nigh. People have been saying that about AMD/Intel/nVidia for over a decade. Fact of the matter is that they're still here, and they'll still be there tomorrow, so for the time being, I will at least point out the stupidity of counter-fanboying a fanboy and point the general discourse back to the topic at hand: GTX 1060.
ACE76 - Monday, July 11, 2016 - link
When someone posts fanboy comments, others reply to put him or her in their place...that doesn't make the person replying a "defender" of bad business practices, although it may look like it...i recently built a very nice 6600k system and even with the knowledge of the power issue with the RX480, got an 8gb card anyway...I see a lot of talk about the 1060 but this video card isn't even available yet and we have no idea what it will perform like....also, nVidia is bucking their trend on releasing affordable video cards 4-6 months after their top tier cards...We can thank AMD for that.tamalero - Friday, July 15, 2016 - link
Irony, people coming with the "whiteknigithing" after they load their barrage against AMD.Yet somehow Nvidia is "flawless".
I actually wonder if these guys are getting paid by the hour.
edzieba - Thursday, July 7, 2016 - link
""Founders Edition" cards for $100 more that throttle after a few minutes of gameplay?"Boost Clocks are 'Boost' clocks rather than base clocks for a reason. You can't really criticize Nvidia for their cards performing exactly as specified.
"And remember the 3.5GB + 0.5GB GTX 970? "
You mean the ones that were range-topping price/performance when released with the issue undetected by anyone testing them for months, and suddenly the performance of everybony's card was remotely reduced through Magic once the minutiae of the memory subsystem's operation was published? Oh, wait...
"And let's not forget bumpgate which cost Nvidia over $300,000,000 in repairs/returns."
Both Nvidia and AMD have been caught out by unnotified solder chemistry changes (e.g. http://www.bit-tech.net/news/hardware/2015/02/20/a...
tamalero - Friday, July 15, 2016 - link
"page not found".and no.. Nvidia issues with the solder problems were everywhere. AMD didnt had nearly a tiny spec of what Nvidia was suffering.
Worse when Nvidia told everyone it was the computer manufacturers fault until shit hit the fan and they were forced to accept THEIR solder technique was defective.
Communism - Thursday, July 7, 2016 - link
The AMD damage control brigade is hilarious."You are only allowed to compare AMD AIB vs Nvidia Reference"
"Nvidia marketing slides are always false and AMD marketing slides are the Vicar of Christ"
Apparently that even extends to AMD rumors vs Nvidia marketing slides.
"The Nvidia 1060 card that we (at the time of the post) have no benchmarks for will obviously be slower in every way compared to RX 480, to say otherwise is blasphemy and heresy"
"GP106 SLI is required for my purchase and people shouldn't stand for it's lack (says various posters who have R9 290/x and/or Rx 480)"
Ignoring the fact that AFR is cancer and that there are single GPUs more capable.
"I can't figure out any problems with GTX 1070 yet, so lets make some up, facts be damned"
"DX11 performance doesn't matter. Only the tiny minority of DX12 games matter, and only if they show favor to AMD, because any that don't are obviously not admissible on account of heresy"
Nevermind the fact that anything outside of AAA has 0% chance of being a DX12 title for the next 5 years.
"GP106 can't possibly beat RX 480, it would have to be a GP104 for that to be the case"
"GTX 970 had some problems, therefore by the transitive property, GP106 1060 will have the identical or worse problems, because reasons"
"Any stock limitation of Nvidia vs demand is sneaky dribbling of cards to the plebs and/or they have bad yields. Any stock limitation of AMD vs demand is off the charts demand, and for such an event to occur, the people must have eaten through zillions of cards already"
"Any time we praise something RX 480 didn't eventually deliver, you should forget it. Any time we denigrate something about 1060 in a slanderous/libelous way that doesn't actually turn out to be true, you shouldn't be allowed to mention it. Dear consumer, do not believe your lying eyes."
"AIBs won't price Nvidia cards at MSRP, but will definitely never violate MSRP for AMD cards because faith"
"Nvidia matching AMD set price with a superior card = Nvidia raising prices for the market"
"When leaks don't favor AMD, lie about them until they do"
fanofanand - Thursday, July 7, 2016 - link
When using quotations you should actually quote what people said.......Or as Ross Geller once said "You're doing it wrong Joe!"FMinus - Thursday, July 7, 2016 - link
Seriously tho, what has AMD done with the RX 480 that is so special? There was always a $199-250 card bracket that had cards on the similar performance. The RX 480 is just the "new" R9 380, so naturally it's priced how it is priced. I have no idea why people are praising AMD for releasing a card that they would release anyway. And now Nvidia will release this GTX 1060 at a similar price point.The difference between AMD and Nvidia right now is that AMD has nothing for people looking at something more beefy, except for 1-3 year old chips, whilst nvidia is building a complete lineup slowly but surly. We still have no idea when AMD will bring their high-end cards to the market, and for everyone who's waiting for those, there's nothing out.
Frankly I'm an AMD guy, I like paying less for similar performance, that's why my past GPUs were, 5850, 6970, 7950 and 280x, and now I'm stuck with my 280x and nothing to buy from AMD. I wont buy a 480, because I want something that will last me at least 3-4 years without having the need to upgrade, and AMD has exactly nothing for me, nvidia on the other hand has 2 cards right now, which truthfully overpriced most of the time and in low supply, but at least I should be able to get them if I try real hard.
That said, I wont buy anything right now, I'll wait and see until spring next year, if AMD managed to bring something out and if they're still in the low-end range at that point, nvidia will be already cheaper and readily available.
JoeyJoJo123 - Thursday, July 7, 2016 - link
It's not incredibly special; it just pushes a near equivalent grade product (seen as the best price/performance ration of last gen) which used to be had for $300, down to potentially $200 if you're lucky (although most people which got this card had to opt for the 8GB VRAM version for $240 or more).It did push the market to get better quality at lower prices, and that's a good thing to have. Though, agreeably, this isn't a huge game-changer.