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Gigabyte Launches GeForce GTX 1060 G1 Gaming D5X 6G (w/ GDDR5X)
A week or so ago we noted that NVIDIA would be releasing a GeForce GTX 1060 based on faster GDDR5X memory. Gigabyte is the first to out a graphics card based on the new spec, it's called the GeForce GTX 1060 G1 Gaming D5X 6G
On the US NVIDIA website the new refresh SKU could already be found. By using GDDR5X over GDDR5 NVIDIA is able to create an answer on price and performance towards the pending RX 590, at least that is the thesis. The new model would be priced in the 299 USD bracket. Gigabyte is the first to introduce this model. Normally you'd look at 6 GB 8 Gbps GDDR5 memory on a 192-bit bus. Precise specs, however, are missing, the GDDR5X is listed at 192 GB/s which we hope is a mistake, as that is the same as it was before :) The shader proc count is the standard 1280 units:
Features
- Powered by GeForce GTX 1060
- Integrated with 6GB GDDR5X 192bit memory
- WINDFORCE 3X with Blade Fan Design & 3D Active Fan
- 16.7M Customizable Color RGB Lighting
Core Clock
- Boost: TBD MHz/ Base: TBD MHz in OC Mode
- Boost: TBD MHz/ Base: TBD MHz in Gaming Mode
Time will tell what this does in performance. We expect AMD to get 5 to 10% faster with their new 12nm models, perhaps the GDDR5X memory on the GTX 1060 can offer a similar increase. With this new refresh SKU one thing becomes clear as well, a GeForce GTX 2060 is not going be released anytime soon. Thanks, SH SOTN for the news submitted.
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Gigabyte makes a booboo, mentioned RTX 2070 Ti - 10/17/2018 09:05 AM
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Gigabyte XCC Ready Motherboard Opens New Opportunities For Multi-Core Processors - 10/15/2018 08:35 AM
Gigabyte teamed up with Inte® to successfully overclock the Intel Extreme Core Count (XCC) processor past 5GHz across all cores during an Intel Keynote. Even without liquid nitrogen (LN2) cooling, t...
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#5601264 Posted on: 10/29/2018 03:02 PM
it's not a question of year... it would be, if maker have the choise of GPU and right now there is none in this segment of the market, so they tried to make new with old and get some few horsepower. On other hand GTX 1060 does it pretty well for the price and is less expensive than equivalent from AMD then why don't use it despite the original release date?
It's 2016 again.
it's not a question of year... it would be, if maker have the choise of GPU and right now there is none in this segment of the market, so they tried to make new with old and get some few horsepower. On other hand GTX 1060 does it pretty well for the price and is less expensive than equivalent from AMD then why don't use it despite the original release date?
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#5602929 Posted on: 11/03/2018 11:29 AM
it's 2016 again, because you get pretty much the same card for the same price as in 2016.
it's 2016 again, because you get pretty much the same card for the same price as in 2016.
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#5602936 Posted on: 11/03/2018 12:19 PM
It is clearly an option to upgrade for those who wish to play simple with old dated gpus.
It is an absolute cheap improvement like upcoming RX 590 for those with:
GTX series of 780, 780Ti, 950, 960 and 970 from Nvidia.
And those with 7850, 7870, 280, 290 and 380 from AMD.
It is clearly an option to upgrade for those who wish to play simple with old dated gpus.
It is an absolute cheap improvement like upcoming RX 590 for those with:
GTX series of 780, 780Ti, 950, 960 and 970 from Nvidia.
And those with 7850, 7870, 280, 290 and 380 from AMD.
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"Precise specs, however, are missing, the GDDR5X is listed at 192 GB/s which we hope is a mistake, as that is the same as it was before
OK, what is the likelihood that, on the manufacturer's official website,
https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/products/10series/geforce-gtx-1060/
...the one, single specification that would differentiate this GTX 1060 from the rest of the brood would be inaccurately reported?
Now, I am taking note of the catch-all "GDDR5/X" description, but, I wouldn't be in the least surprised if Nvidia would, in essence, be saying, "Here, have some of that magic GDDR5X!", and leave it clocked at 8GHz if only not to upset their already overly-granular product stack.
That would make zero sense.
Palit have 1060 GDDR5X version too GeForce® GTX 1060 GamingPro OC+
GDDR5X chips surplus? Will this small increase in bandwidth bring any noteworthy performance gains?
Well that's a 10% increase in memory bandwidth. I've just now run my GTX 1070 with a 10% VRAM overclock and I'm seeing a 3% increase in Graphics Score in Timespy and a 3.5% increase in Firestrike. One thing to bear in mind is that the GTX 1070 is more bandwidth limited than the GTX 1060, because the GTX 1070 has 50% more cores than the GTX 1060, but only has 33% more VRAM bandwidth than the GTX 1060 - this would mean that I would see more performance benefit by increasing the bandwidth of my GTX 1070 than I would with a GTX 1060; also my GTX 1070 is factory overclocked on the core and during this testing was in the 1975Mhz zone, which again would help show any possible gains through VRAM overclocking in the best light. Given that I only saw a 3% performance improvement with a 10% VRAM overclock on my GTX 1070, then you'd expect even less performance increase from this new variant of the GTX 1060. You would see bigger performance gains in games that are very intense on VRAM bandwidth (not sure which ones those would be), but I would be surprised if any gains in such situations would be more than say 5%, especially seeing as the GTX 1060 is not VRAM bandwidth starved in relation to it's relatively weak number of core processors. Seems like a pretty irrelevant relaunch of the GTX 1060.