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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euskalzabe - Thursday, July 7, 2016 - link
This is what happens with AMD can't compete. I hope Vega is an all-star product, because I'm tired of Nvidia overcharging.Creig - Thursday, July 7, 2016 - link
There's a very simple way for people to stop the Nvidia overcharging. And that's to stop buying Nvidia cards at inflated prices. Yet people continue to buy high end video cards like they are a life vest to a drowning man. They HAVE to have the fastest, latest model. Now. RIGHT NOW! TAKE MY MONEY NVIDIA, DAMN YOU!!People want Nvidia to lower their video card prices? Stop buying them until Nvidia drops their prices. Very simple.
But until that happens, the madness will continue because Nvidia knows that they can continue to make record profits off their customers.
TheinsanegamerN - Thursday, July 7, 2016 - link
Unless AMD releases a golden card that is suddenly competitive, enthusiasts will continue to buy nvidia because their high end cards were more competitive.K_Space - Thursday, July 7, 2016 - link
That's not the issue TheinsanegamerN because the enthusiast market is a niche market, where performance/price ratio go out of the wall. The mainstream market is what matters and sadly Nvidia has raised the price in this breacket too.Peter2k - Thursday, July 7, 2016 - link
Nvidia makes a billion dollars revenue a year (though not all is through graphics cards of course)They must make something right
They're good cards
They'd be selling even more if they could meet demand
It's on AMD to counter
Not the customer to boycott Nvidia just because
Many have been waiting long already
ACE76 - Monday, July 11, 2016 - link
Well said...one high end video card costs almost double the cost of a gaming console...yet, there's way more games available on the consoles...high end PC video card market seems only to exist for showing off purposes.ACE76 - Monday, July 11, 2016 - link
AMD R9 Fury cards were excellent cards...Nvidia's 980ti didn't blow away any of the AMD high end offerings...I'm pretty sure the same will hold true when Vega gets released...if a high end Vega card performs 10% slower than nVidia but costs less, it would be prudent to go Vega right?ImSpartacus - Thursday, July 7, 2016 - link
I think it's fine. It's just a tax on early adopters and pre-built system builders.No one else is going to bother with the founder's edition variants, surely not the Anandtech crowd that are building their own machines.
lazarpandar - Thursday, July 7, 2016 - link
>I think it's fine. It's just a tax on early adopters and pre-built system builders.You say this as if those aren't two groups that need defending. Some people don't know how to build a computer and implying that it doesn't matter that every company in the supply chain tack on their own extra fee to those people shows a huge lack of empathy.
People outside of the "Anandtech crowd" matter just as much as we do.
K_Space - Thursday, July 7, 2016 - link
^^ People outside of the "Anandtech crowd" matter just as much as we do.As much as i'd like to big the tech mag readers. People outside of AT/inserted your fav site acutally matter MORE than we do, I think the tech site readers may contribute what: 5-10%? if not less?