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Nvidia might overhaul GeForce GTX 1060 with GP104 (a GTX 1070 GPU)
A new rumor just surfaced, fresh from Asia. Nvidia seems to be overhauling the GeForce GTX 1060 one more time. We’ve seen a 6GB 8 Gbps and then 9 Gbps model, of course, the three GB model, heck even a 5GB model for the Asia region, and the latest rumor now indicates a GTX 1060 with a hacked GTX 1070 GPU.
It’s surely been silent at team green, Volta is kept for HPC, AI, and Deep learning usage, and the earlier rumors of a Pascal respin this year, have gone silent. As it seems now though, Nvidia might release a new GeForce GTX 1060 (GP106-400), however now based on a GP104-300 GPU. And that’s the chip used in the GeForce GTX 1070, reports Asia based Expreview.
Now before you get all excited (or not), the specifications in terms of graphics memory and 192-bit memory bus, shader count (1280), clocks and TDP etc, would remain the same and as such the performance levels would be the same as well. That begs the question, as to why Nvidia would release these revised GTX 1060 cards? Perhaps clearing GPU stock to make room for new products? Then again, the 1070's have been selling like puppies with the recent mining craze, weird huh?
The original GeForce GTX 1060 Founders edition with the Nvidia GP106-A1 GPU ( 1,506 MHz core / 1,709 MHz boost / 8,008 MHz memory )
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#5546070 Posted on: 05/12/2018 01:58 PM
Ohhh ... lol at the continuum milking for over 2 years of Pascal GPUs by Mr. J. Huang :p
Hey, that's a very nice cow.
I would milk it all day every day, if I had one.
Ohhh ... lol at the continuum milking for over 2 years of Pascal GPUs by Mr. J. Huang :p
Hey, that's a very nice cow.
I would milk it all day every day, if I had one.
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#5546074 Posted on: 05/12/2018 02:16 PM
Ohhh ... lol at the continuum milking for over 2 years of Pascal GPUs by Mr. J. Huang :p
Milking is a smart thing to do when nothing there that out-performs your product. Pascal reminds me of the 8800 series. Remember how long that lasted? Nothing there to touch it and it was similarly milked.
Ohhh ... lol at the continuum milking for over 2 years of Pascal GPUs by Mr. J. Huang :p
Milking is a smart thing to do when nothing there that out-performs your product. Pascal reminds me of the 8800 series. Remember how long that lasted? Nothing there to touch it and it was similarly milked.
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#5546076 Posted on: 05/12/2018 02:34 PM
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I get this but it still doesn't make any sense. By now pretty much everyone who is going to buy a GPU of this generation, has probably already bought it. Sales can't be as good as they were before. Not providing proper sli support to at least the 1080 and up also seems silly if you really want to milk these cards. At least then eager 1080ti owners might put another in their system to get their 4k ultra 60fps. Eventually they are going to have to release the next generation or provide better sli support because I am not paying them anything until then and most likely neither is any other high end video card owner.
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Milking is a smart thing to do when nothing there that out-performs your product. Pascal reminds me of the 8800 series. Remember how long that lasted? Nothing there to touch it and it was similarly milked.
I get this but it still doesn't make any sense. By now pretty much everyone who is going to buy a GPU of this generation, has probably already bought it. Sales can't be as good as they were before. Not providing proper sli support to at least the 1080 and up also seems silly if you really want to milk these cards. At least then eager 1080ti owners might put another in their system to get their 4k ultra 60fps. Eventually they are going to have to release the next generation or provide better sli support because I am not paying them anything until then and most likely neither is any other high end video card owner.
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#5546080 Posted on: 05/12/2018 02:58 PM
Nvidia recently said it wants to keep everything simple, but by adding letters to the end of Items doesn't make anything simple.
There should just be numbers, as some people have suggested 1065.
This also annoys me about motherboards as well.
Whats with all the letters and numbers?
A320, B350, X370... whats wrong with just 1 letter and the 3 numbers? Series A/Model 3 Version 20/50/70... there is really no reason to make things so complicated.
Whoever markets products, really loves confusing the hell out of people.
Well, it is simple. Come on now, how about we just use our brains for a minute? What else do we want now? Nvidia renaming the gtx970 to gtx1040 because it's faster than the gtx1030? Or AMD rename the rx480 to rx575 because it's faster than the 570 but slower than the 580? It takes 5 minutes to do some research. And if anyone is ready to drop $300 on a GPU without doing research, it's their fault.
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I get this but it still doesn't make any sense. By now pretty much everyone who is going to buy a GPU of this generation, has probably already bought it. Sales can't be as good as they were before. Not providing proper sli support to at least the 1080 and up also seems silly if you really want to milk these cards. At least then eager 1080ti owners might put another in their system to get their 4k ultra 60fps. Eventually they are going to have to release the next generation or provide better sli support because I am not paying them anything until then and most likely neither is any other high end video card owner.
The new 1060 will be aimed at people like yourself. If it's just short of 1070 performance and costs less, it will be a viable option for you. I don't know what you're complaining about. Are you annoyed with Nvidia offering you a choice? Why? If you're not happy, go buy AMD, why is this even an issue?
Most probably Nvidia have some dies that wouldn't pass for a 1070 so they make a new card. Or would you rather they throw those chips in the bin? What is wrong with people nowadays?
This is transparency for gamers. Make 5 products with the same name. So gamers know what they buy...
What 5 products with the same name? There's a 1060 6gb, 1060 3gb and this, which will be a 1060ti or something.
Or would you rather the same product with 2 different names? 480/580, 470/570 and I could go further into the recent history where AMD just rebranded old cards and sold them under a new name. Or is that OK?
Nvidia recently said it wants to keep everything simple, but by adding letters to the end of Items doesn't make anything simple.
There should just be numbers, as some people have suggested 1065.
This also annoys me about motherboards as well.
Whats with all the letters and numbers?
A320, B350, X370... whats wrong with just 1 letter and the 3 numbers? Series A/Model 3 Version 20/50/70... there is really no reason to make things so complicated.
Whoever markets products, really loves confusing the hell out of people.
Well, it is simple. Come on now, how about we just use our brains for a minute? What else do we want now? Nvidia renaming the gtx970 to gtx1040 because it's faster than the gtx1030? Or AMD rename the rx480 to rx575 because it's faster than the 570 but slower than the 580? It takes 5 minutes to do some research. And if anyone is ready to drop $300 on a GPU without doing research, it's their fault.
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I get this but it still doesn't make any sense. By now pretty much everyone who is going to buy a GPU of this generation, has probably already bought it. Sales can't be as good as they were before. Not providing proper sli support to at least the 1080 and up also seems silly if you really want to milk these cards. At least then eager 1080ti owners might put another in their system to get their 4k ultra 60fps. Eventually they are going to have to release the next generation or provide better sli support because I am not paying them anything until then and most likely neither is any other high end video card owner.
The new 1060 will be aimed at people like yourself. If it's just short of 1070 performance and costs less, it will be a viable option for you. I don't know what you're complaining about. Are you annoyed with Nvidia offering you a choice? Why? If you're not happy, go buy AMD, why is this even an issue?
Most probably Nvidia have some dies that wouldn't pass for a 1070 so they make a new card. Or would you rather they throw those chips in the bin? What is wrong with people nowadays?
This is transparency for gamers. Make 5 products with the same name. So gamers know what they buy...
What 5 products with the same name? There's a 1060 6gb, 1060 3gb and this, which will be a 1060ti or something.
Or would you rather the same product with 2 different names? 480/580, 470/570 and I could go further into the recent history where AMD just rebranded old cards and sold them under a new name. Or is that OK?
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That's gotta be a fake flashed card no?