GTX 1060 Global Pricing and More.

More GTX 1060 news came in today and Spoiler Alert all of them are good except for one.

Starting off with the BAD news is what I forgot to mention in yesterday's posts. There will be NO SLI support on the 1060. Yes you heard it right NO SLI on your 1060. This is mostly because 1060 SLI will make a 1080 worthless. 1060 SLI at ~$500 will make a 1080 worthless at $600 and NVIDIA wouldn't want to that. Interesting to see would be what NVIDIA will do with the 1050 card.

Next piece of news is the Global Pricing announce. The Prices in the US were $249 MSRP and $299 Founders Edition. Now since the prices are not just dependent on the exchange rates the MSRP across different countries had to be announced. So here it is:
Britain- GBP 239
France- EUR 279
Germany- EUR 279
India- INR 22,999
UAE - AED 1,100
Switzerland - CHF 274
Sweden- SEK 2,899
South Africa- ZAR 4,699
Russia- RON 18,999
Serbia- RSD 34,999
Czech Republic- CZK 7,599
Denmark- DKK 2,199
Hungary- HUF 92,399
Norway- NOK 2,799
Poland- PLN 1,279
Romania- RON 1,279
Turkey- TRY 1,030
A thing to note is that these prices are Inclusive of all Taxes but this is just the MSRP, aftermarket cards will sell for more than this only some cards with blower style fans from board partners (like Turbo Edition from ASUS if I am not wrong) will sell at this price. The Founders Edition will be available only in US, UK, France and Germany.

I can't judge the pricing across the globe but sure I can judge Indian pricing. I must say that the 1060 is priced quite modestly. More performance than the 970 (they say 980 but I don't believe) at 23K is amazing.

Now lets's start with the GOOD news. The NDA of the 1060 lifts 14th July so that is when you expect all the real confirmed Benchmarks to start coming. The Benches should come out between 8AM to 2PM GMT so convert this to your local time and mark your clocks.

The next piece of GOOD news and that too a very good one is that I was wrong. I was wrong on saying that Aftermarket Cooling will ship 1 month later because Aftermarket cooling ships the same day as the Launch, that is the 19th of July. This is like the best decision of a hardware company I have seen lately.

Now this decision is mainly due to RX 480 Aftermarket coolers shipping in mid-July that is when 1060 is getting released. To take over the market right away and not let AMD even step in it, NVIDIA took this step. Now, this might affect the Founders Edition sales but all 1060 sales will benefit the same Pocket in the end and that is NVIDIA's (I am looking at you Jen-Hsun Huang).

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~APex