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).

Comment down below what you think off all this. Will you be buying 1060 on release? Share this Blog and post with your friends and family.

This week was full of 1060 news and so will be the next. Stay tuned to The Hardware Bomb for more 1060 news, PC Builds and more amazing Tech Updates.

Thank you guys for joining in. See you again with next post.

~APex

GTX 1060 Specs.

NVIDIA Released their Mid-Level Card the GTX 1060 today (07-07-2016) to compete against AMDs Radeon RX 480. I know I already made a post on this but this one has specs whereas the other one was just Reveal News.

The Card is priced at $249 MSRP and $299 for the Founder's Edition (bullshit) card.
It features a Pascal GP106 Processor fabricated with 16nm FinFET technology. With it's 1280 CUDA Cores it offers a Base clock of 1506 mHz and a Boost clock of 1709 mHz. It offers 4.4 Teraflops of Max raw Compute Perfomance.
It features a 6 Gigabyte GDDR5 VRAM ( Sorry, no X here) on a 192 bit Bus and a Memory clock of 2000 mHz with the maximum memory bandwidth of 192 GB/s.
All with a TDP of mere 120 Watts.
A thing to note that all these specs are of the GP106 chip, aftermarket Cards will feature higher clocks.

The Card is supposed to be released on 19th of July so stay tuned for Benchmarks. Also, check out the other blog posts on the 1060 for more details and pictures.

All specs of the 1060 with the side-by-side comparison to RX 480:

Thank you guys for reading. Stay tuned for more 1060 updates, PC Builds and more Tech News and stuff.

~APex

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Unveiled. Priced at $249.

Nvidia just unveiled their Mid Range GTX 1060 card to compete with the (overhyped) AMD Radeon RX 480. Leaked benchmarks and Revealed specs suggest it performs better than its competition.

The Card is priced at $249 MSRP and $299 Founders Edition (Oh God! Not that Founders Edition bullshit again NVIDIA, please). AMD is going to burn with that pricing.
Check out the specs and pictures down BELOW.

The card is supposed to be released on 19th of July and that means the Good Cards (aftermarket cards) come in mid August (Yay!)


The funny part is that AMD overhyped their GPU for Promotion whereas NVIDIA didn't even create a hype for its promotion. This is quite similar to companies like Lamborghini having no ads whereas companies like Hyundai and Toyota having multiple ads.

What the reality is? We will know on 19th. But I know 1060 > 480 and NVIDIA > AMD *grabs popcorn*

~APex

GTX 1060 vs RX 480 Solved. TechTalk

There has been a lot of debate going on about the GTX 1060 and its comparison to the Radeon RX 480. Its time to settle this with History and Stats.
I know I have covered this topic in a build before but it was too brief, to make it more clear let's do it again separately with more detail.

The 1060 is supposed to launch by the end of July 2016, priced at (starting from) $250, have 2 variants 3GB and 6GB, perform near to a 980 and have a TDP of 120W. There is more stuff involved but that wouldn't be too helpful in the comparison so we won't take that into account

Lets begin with the history lesson, shall we? Assume 'N' as any generation on Nvidia Side and 'A' as any generation on AMD side, an N60 card from NVIDIA has always outperformed A80 card from AMD. GTX 760 performed better than Radeon 280, GTX 960 performed better than Radeon 380. This puts the any N60 ahead of any A80 as per history. Also, an N60 card from newer Gen has always outperformed an N70 card from last Gen.

Power efficiency is another thing is which puts Nvidia ahead of AMD. From GPU History we know that an N60 card has been about 20% more efficient on average. The 760 was a whopping 25% more efficient than a 770. The 960 was about 18% more efficient than the 970 (we are just talking Watts here no performance). The 1070 has a TDP of 150W now from the GPU history we know that 1060 will be more efficient than that. If we take the efficiency to even 15-17% that too puts the 1060 at 125 Watts. 125 Watts of 1060 is a whopping 25% more efficient than the 170 watts the RX 480 takes (even when it is rated at 150W) with its power issues. We won't talk about power efficiency on AMD side because Nvidia never had competition with that.

This is just 2 Generations of GPUs mentioned here but even when we go further back, we will see a similar trend.

Now, we know that the RX 480 performs lesser than the GTX 970, the history suggests that 1060 would be faster than 970 which puts 1060 above the 480 in terms of performance. Similar is the case with power efficiency.

The history somewhat confirms the leaks, which say that 1060 performs near about 980 (over 970 as told in GPU History Para 1) and has a rated TDP of 120W (LESSER than whats told in GPU History Para 2).

Now the issue is Reference Coolers which suck at performing hence nobody likes to buy them but are sort of an early access hence people buy them, the solution to this is Aftermarket coolers. Aftermarket coolers usually ship out 1 month (maximum) after the release of a card. If GTX 1060 releases by the end of this month Aftermarket coolers come in by the end of August. If the card is released tomorrow that is 8th of July (which some leaks suggest) the aftermarket solutions come in the first week of August which makes the GOOD 1060 just 1 or 2 weeks behind the GOOD 480 cards.

If you are planning a build with 480 right now, drop it. The wait for 1060 would be worth be it 1 month or just 1 week.

There you have it. GTX1060 vs RX480 resolved.
Stay tuned for PC Builds, TechTalks and more.

~APex