Friday, October 19th 2018
NVIDIA Rushes in GTX 1060 with GDDR5X to Counter AMD Radeon RX 590 Threat
AMD is giving final touches to its Radeon RX 590 graphics card, which is rumored to be based on an efficient new rendition of the "Polaris" silicon, which could disturb NVIDIA's product lineup between the GTX 1060 series and the GTX 1070, as its new RTX 2060 series is nowhere in sight. In a bid to thwart this threat, NVIDIA is preparing a variant of the GeForce GTX 1060 with faster GDDR5X memory.
The current GTX 1060 6 GB is endowed with 8 Gbps GDDR5 memory, which at its 192-bit bus width works out to a memory bandwidth of 192 GB/s. NVIDIA had attempted to improve its competitive position once, by creating a shortlived sub-variant of this SKU with 9 Gbps GDDR5 memory (211 GB/s). Switching to 10 Gbps GDDR5X memory would give the chip 240 GB/s memory bandwidth, and 11 Gbps (unlikely because expensive), would yield 264 GB/s. With the GP106 silicon maxed out, it's also possible the new GTX 1060 could be based on a heavily cut down GP104, possibly even with 192-bit memory, which explains GDDR5X memory.
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NVIDIA
The current GTX 1060 6 GB is endowed with 8 Gbps GDDR5 memory, which at its 192-bit bus width works out to a memory bandwidth of 192 GB/s. NVIDIA had attempted to improve its competitive position once, by creating a shortlived sub-variant of this SKU with 9 Gbps GDDR5 memory (211 GB/s). Switching to 10 Gbps GDDR5X memory would give the chip 240 GB/s memory bandwidth, and 11 Gbps (unlikely because expensive), would yield 264 GB/s. With the GP106 silicon maxed out, it's also possible the new GTX 1060 could be based on a heavily cut down GP104, possibly even with 192-bit memory, which explains GDDR5X memory.
98 Comments on NVIDIA Rushes in GTX 1060 with GDDR5X to Counter AMD Radeon RX 590 Threat
I also wouldn't be surprised if this product will end up with a 299$ price tag
So I can't see going from 8 to 10Gbps making a big difference either, again other than price that is.
It's still a gp106, you can give it GDDR8, it wont make much of a difference.
Only to have a 2060 in January, only someone with a dire need should contemplate this nonsense imho.
1060 6GB and 3GB have different amount of cuda cores. You buy it and think you only made a VRAM sacrifice, but surprise, surprise...
Edit: wrong RAM...
This is downright silly. Drop the price of the current 1060s and the 1070 and be done with it.
Better pricing would be way more competitive than releasing yet another GP106 variant that would only have a larger premium
Pricing is always key for consumers in the low-mid range section
Or a 550 with an arbitrary number of shaders that fell between the 550 and 560 based on the 560 core.
I remember the old NV gtx 260 core 216 and they bragged that up all over the box. 1070 gained a "ti" model... Lol what a joke from the other side.
Usually when you buy a card that has different amount of memory, you assume the GPU is the same. Like it has been for years before. Example RX480. Both 8GB and 4GB have the same chip underneath.
MX150 has 2 variants (or was it the mx130 hmmm). One is the default (being advertised as such) and its, in name, indistinguishable slower brother, pushed into the market in silence. You wont know which one you are getting until you buy the laptop and run GPUZ, at which point it's too late.
As for AMD side of story, we have the 550 with different specs in the same name and I believe a 460. The new 580 for the Chinese market has it's core count in its name on the Chinese website.
So please explain to me how is one company better than the other and vice versa, considering they do mostly the same stuff.
The gtx 460 was a bit funky v1 was 336 cores and 256 bit the v2 was 336 cores and 192 bit and the SE was 288 cores and 256 bit plus the 768mb model that was 336 cores and 192 bit lol.
Or they could use a severly cut down GP104 . That's not as crazy as it sounds , that is after all nothing more than a mid-range GPU, size wise. Regardless, how many different 1060s are there now ? I lost count, it's ridiculous.Every GPU architecture is hungry for more memory bandwidth to a degree.
here is the entire stack of cards