Nvidia Pascal Announcement

Maybe I don't understand you correctly, but:

 

GeForce GTX 1060 Spotted in Hong Kong

http://www.guru3d.com/news-story/geforce-gtx-1060-spotted-in-hong-kong.html

 

Wow, after quite a bit of silence, the 1060 seems closer than expected. So much for "We believe we are months ahead in this transition".

If it manages to reach 480X performance with a smaller die, a lower number of DRAMs, and lower production cost, the pipedream/storyline of AMD taking over the mainstream performance segment may run into some issues as well.

 

Likelihood of a photoshop? Pic looks legit though.

 

Nvidia might have been waiting to see what AMD had. /cynic

 

It'd be one of the better 'shops i've seen …

 

Or it's some mockup to steal some thunder, the timing couldn't be better. Also, the PCB is missing it's product code / number / whatever

 

http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20160627PD207.html

 

But, but I thought the late to market strategy of Polaris was deliberate, so AMD could set their price after Nvidia had painted itself into a corner with GP104?

All that said: are we sure that this thing was actually bought at a retailer? We could still be a month or two away from release...

 

Back in April, HardwareBattle in Korea had oddly specific model detail info about three GP104 SKUs. This 1060 picture could be fake, but if its real it could be a third GP104 design, not GP106. However, the HardwareBattle leak did mention the third SKU would be non-reference only, and the picture clearly shows a reference design.

The photo source seems fishy. Bought at retail? That'd be a surprising first for a new major model leak. Took one photo only? And didn't show the box?

But..one tiny detail supports the idea the photo is real and that it's GP106 and not GP104: the PCB length is much shorter than the GTX 1070's. It's only a dozen pixels in the image, but you can see how the PCB stops right at the fan, and the rest of the cooler is just extending past the PCB.
If this 1060 were a third GP104 SKU, I'd expect NVidia to reuse the 1070's PCB.

 

yeah the shadows on the GTX 1060 just don't seem right.

 

GP100 2016/04 - Check
GP104 GTX 1080/1070 2016/06 - Check

GP106 GTX 1060 July 2016.

 

Can there be enough salvage chips for a third model graphics card based on the same GPU to be viable? If it's going to be a cheaper, lower-performance card, there's going to have to be a lot of chips available or the card would become a joke product, constantly out of stock.

I don't see why a cheaper, lower performance card couldn't use a cheaper, lower-specced PCB...

(Btw, you can click on the thumbnail image in the Guru3D newspost to get a much larger version of the alleged 1060...)

Shadows look fine to me. Are you repeating a variation of the common "I know a photoshop" meme perhaps?

 

Yeah a little bit that and 3d, take a look at the Shadow on the G of the GTX, the edge shadowing of the upper part just looks off, could be I'm looking for something that isn't there but my brain tells me its just weird.

 

Sure. GK104 third tier was used in OEM GTX 660s. GM104 third tier was used in OEM GTX 960s.
But neither were launch products. They were just a way of using up leftover third rank salvage GPUs. Making them OEM only removed NVidia's obligation to keep supply steady. This supposed GTX 1060 doesn't match the historical GTX x04 third tier.

 

Not sure if posted before: NVIDIA Pascal OpenGL extensions https://developer.nvidia.com/new-pascal-opengl-extensions-have-arrived

 

You're forgetting GTX 660 Ti, which was a retail part, albeit one quickly forgotten.

 

It was identical to 670 but with a 192-bit bus. I wonder if that's something they might roll out again.

Edit: Oops, I was wrong. Here, I'll just quote some random guy who wrote a review:

 

Makes it easy to market : a GTX 1060 with 6GB.
The place that just says "AIB design" on HardwareBattle Korea has me think it means there's no card with a cute blower that looks like Titan, GTX 780, GTX 980 (...) 1080 and 1070 founder's edition.


That may close the gap between a 1070 8GB and a more modest GP106 card that gets 4GB on 128bit only. Avoids the "3.5GB + 0.5GB" mess on the previous generation.

Um, perhaps it would be that 192bit idea, but they call it GTX 1060 Ti and launch it early, because god damn it we're doing whatever we want, so they think. Goes against the RX480 very roughly.

192bit GM204 product exists too, on laptops. It's the 970M.

 

TSMC being blamed for NVIDIA GTX 1080, GTX 1070 supply issues and retailer price gouging

http://www.mobipicker.com/nvidia-ge...inues-to-grow-manufacturer-tsmc-to-be-blamed/