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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Murloc - Friday, July 8, 2016 - link
AMD can't be competitive power consumption, it has never been really. This is a sticking point for me, I hate noise.andrewaggb - Thursday, July 7, 2016 - link
Once the 1060 is available for $250 and in stock, assuming the 480 8gb is still $240 at that point, it does seem like a no-brainer to get the 1060. But we don't have benchmarks, no idea about availability, and the 480 is available today. There's also a 4GB 480 for $200 that's still a pretty good deal and should have enough ram for 1080p.khimera2000 - Thursday, July 7, 2016 - link
Actually I've seen my video ram go above 4GB on certain titles when I go ultra on some settings at 1080. It's a Gtx 980ti. I think 6GB will become a new floor sooner than later. I would avoid the 4 GB cards since the price difference isn't that bad.przemo_li - Friday, July 8, 2016 - link
Sure.No brainer to pick GPU based solely on paper values. ;)
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prisonerX - Thursday, July 7, 2016 - link
I love how Nvidia fanboys talk down the competition, so that Nvidia can gouge them even more than they do currently.Wreckage - Thursday, July 7, 2016 - link
This will pretty much bankrupt AMD. All they have is the 480 right now. Given it's multiple problems and disappointing performance, they can't hope to make a profit. No well informed individual would chose a 480 over a 1060, especially with the recent powergate scandal.Creig - Thursday, July 7, 2016 - link
"This will pretty much bankrupt AMD", blah, blah, blah. I wish I had a dollar for every time you've said that over the last 10 years. You keep saying it and yet AMD is still here putting out cards that real people can enjoy. Not just the 1% who can pull $100 bills out of their ass at will.If you like a good scandal, just keep your eyes on Nvidia. They've gotten pretty good at them lately. "Founders Edition" cards for $100 more that throttle after a few minutes of gameplay? Real quality there. LOL! And remember the 3.5GB + 0.5GB GTX 970? How about the woodscrews in, "This puppy here is Fermi"? And let's not forget bumpgate which cost Nvidia over $300,000,000 in repairs/returns.
Yeah, it looks like Nvidia is the definite scandal leader in the GPU world.
Keep on trolling, Wreckage/Prime1! :)
JoeyJoJo123 - Thursday, July 7, 2016 - link
Dude. Why are you going out of your way to defend a company's supposed honor, when they've done nothing to merit it? Wreckage here's trolling, but you whiteknighting AMD is just embarassing. Any company that makes mistakes needs to be shown what those mistakes are so that they can resolve them and move forward.Remon - Thursday, July 7, 2016 - link
Oh shut up, nvidia has done worse things than whatever AMD has done.JoeyJoJo123 - Thursday, July 7, 2016 - link
What's your point, though.I'm not defending any company here. Both AMD and nVidia clearly have done some wrong, but being a fanboy of either side and pointing the blame to the other side of being guilty of a greater evil doesn't help _anything_ here, it just attempts to shift the blame.
Besides none of these types of comments really have anything to do with the topic at hand: GTX 1060.