This won't be a high end gpu for obvious reasons. I'm thinking a 1792 CUDA cores 1060ti on a 192bit memory bus, otherwise it would be too close to the 1070. 6gb only. This at around £250 would be a pretty nice card actually.
Something unnecessary - that's for sure. A 1060 TI or something ridiculous. nVidia is notorious for making big splashes and hype for nothing hype worthy.
They create hype for garbage software like GeForce Experience. You better believe they will hype a piece of hardware as useless as the 1060 "this edition is slightly different".
You mean release a product that requires the user to bake it to get it working, and not fix the issue even knowing about it for the 9000 series release? Maybe Nvidia should give a bake kit away as a free bonus with any new card . Only because it's backed up by a decent price. All well and good hyping Titan XP etc, but what's the point when the people you are advertising to can't afford it? Having a good marque in the card may help sell lesser cards, but it would be like buying a Smart car because it's made by the same company that makes AMG Mecercedes, but personally myself I'd go for the BMW.