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Guru3D.com » News » NVIDIA to release GTX 1060 SKU with faster GDDR5X Graphics Memory

NVIDIA to release GTX 1060 SKU with faster GDDR5X Graphics Memory

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 10/19/2018 08:18 PM | source: | 40 comment(s)
NVIDIA to release GTX 1060 SKU with faster GDDR5X Graphics Memory

It is with certainty that we can say that AMD will release a 12nm fabbed version of Polaris, likely called Radeon RX 590. With that knowledge in mind NVIDIA will be releasing a refresh GeForce GTX 1060, this round, however, it'll be fitted with faster GDDR5X graphics memory.

On the US NVIDIA website the new refresh, SKU can be found. By using GDDR5X over GDDR5 NVIDIA is able to create an answer on price and performance towards the new RX 590, at least that is the thesis. The new model will be priced 299 USD. 

The current model has 6 GB 8 Gbps GDDR5 memory on a 192-bit bus. The GDDR5X model will likely get 9 or maybe 10 Gbps GDDR5X graphics memory offering an increased up-to 240 GB/s memory bandwidth (coming from 192 GB/s). Time will tell what this does in performance. We expect AMD to get 5 to 10% faster with the 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.



NVIDIA to release GTX 1060 SKU with faster GDDR5X Graphics Memory




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#5598265 Posted on: 10/19/2018 08:39 PM
Will this not be bumping into the 1070???


How about the 2060?? I would rather see that.

Thanks HH.

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#5598272 Posted on: 10/19/2018 08:52 PM
There probably won't be an RTX 2060, they've said that there isn't sufficient raytracing performance below the 2070 to warrant building one. And the 1070 won't get another boost past the 1070Ti because the 2070 is only a little faster then a 1080, and they would not want to compete with themselves.

The most likely thing they will do is do a die shrink on the 1070 to save costs, rebrand it as a GTX 2060, and turn the 1060 into the 2050 like they have done in the past.

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#5598273 Posted on: 10/19/2018 08:54 PM
GDDR5x has particulars about optimisation that will make these cards pretty poor for compute work initially.

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#5598275 Posted on: 10/19/2018 08:57 PM
What is this? 5th? 6th differently configured GTX 1060 on HW level?

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#5598332 Posted on: 10/20/2018 12:19 AM
What is this? 5th? 6th differently configured GTX 1060 on HW level?


+1 , thinking the same here :/ , GTX1060 6GB GDDR5, GTX1060 3GB normal edition , GTX1060 3GB gimp castrated edition , GTX1060 10GB GDDRX5 incoming + the different hardware configurations done by third hardware partners :D , i believe this will step into GTX1070 and GTX1070Ti territory with high enough clocks and very fast 10GB gddrx5 memory.

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