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NVIDIA To Launch GeForce GTX 1060 with 5GB Graphics Memory

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 12/26/2017 05:56 PM | source: | 33 comment(s)
NVIDIA To Launch GeForce GTX 1060 with 5GB Graphics Memory

For a while now there has been some chatter on the web that Nvidia would be releasing or at least preparing a new GeForce GTX 1060, it seems the mystery has been solved. Nvidia is to launch a new GeForce GTX 1060 with 5GB Graphics Memory.

The reason behind the new model is that it will be aimed at Internet Cafe's, hugely popular in Asia, as Expreview reports. Three GB is too little, 5 GB seems to be a little more cost effective. A photo of the 5GB paired GPU also already appeared:

 



The GP106-350-K3-A1 has been confirmed to have a full 1280 Shader processors

 

It is reported and thus now visually confirmed that that the GPU used is the GP106-350-K3-A1 which holds it's original 1280 shader processors. However, the lacking GDDR5 chip would have an effect on the memory bus, which would be a 160-bit. Again, we think this model is aimed at the Asia market only.

Update: the first Gigabyte branded card has surfaced on the web, read more here.

GeForceGTX 1060 6GBGTX 1060 5GBGTX 1060 3GB
     
GPU GP106-400-A1 GP106-350-K3-A1 GP106-300-A1
Architecture Pascal Pascal Pascal
Transistor count 4.4 Billion 4.4 Billion 4.4 Billion
Fabrication Node TSMC 16 nm TSMC 16 nm TSMC 16 nm
CUDA Cores 1,280 1,280 1,152
SMMs / SMXs 10 10 9
ROPs 48 48 48
GPU Clock Core 1,506 MHz 1,506 MHz 1,506 MHz
GPU Boost clock 1,709 MHz 1,709 MHz 1,709 MHz
Memory Clock 2,000 MHz 2,000 MHz 2,000 MHz
Memory Size 6 GB 5 GB 3 GB
Memory Bus 192-bit 160-bit 192-bit
TDP 120 Watts 120  Watts 120  Watts


NVIDIA To Launch GeForce GTX 1060 with 5GB Graphics Memory




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StewieTech
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#5504605 Posted on: 12/26/2017 06:11 PM
If its introduced at a significant lower price than the 6gb, i can see it selling well. And i might consider one myself.

Dwwolf
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#5504614 Posted on: 12/26/2017 06:52 PM
Notice the Memory Acess Width was cutdown significantly ? From 192 bits to 160 bits wide.

Anyone care to emulate the results by downclocking their regular 6Gb 1060 ?

Neo Cyrus
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#5504619 Posted on: 12/26/2017 07:06 PM
Notice the Memory Acess Width was cutdown significantly ? From 192 bits to 160 bits wide.

Anyone care to emulate the results by downclocking their regular 6Gb 1060 ?
Aren't nVidia cards from Maxwell and later generally all ROP limited in games? The memory bandwidth shouldn't make much of a difference. Overclocking the memory should be more than enough.

Either way this sounds like bad news to me, because it makes seem all the more likely that Ampere or whatever it'll be called is further away than I was hoping. Bah, at least it'll be less useful for miners since Ethereum is memory limited.

ObscureangelPT
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#5504641 Posted on: 12/26/2017 07:56 PM
Notice the Memory Acess Width was cutdown significantly ? From 192 bits to 160 bits wide.

Anyone care to emulate the results by downclocking their regular 6Gb 1060 ?
The only thing I can emulate is the memory bandwidth that people will loose..
Since the 6GB features 192 bits, with memory speed set to 2000MHZ, theorically it can archieve something like 192 gb/s
While the 5GB version will have 160 bits, with memory speed set to 2000MHZ, it will archieve 160gb/s.

Cheers

schmidtbag
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#5504659 Posted on: 12/26/2017 09:47 PM
Nvidia is doing what AMD was doing just a couple years ago: littering their product line with confusing and pointless products that nobody asked for. The 1060 should've been released as just a 6GB GPU from day 1, with no other variants.

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