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Nvidia has announced that a new GTX 1060 is due for release over the next few weeks, this time featuring 3GB of framebuffer memory. It's based on the same GP106 processor as the 'full-fat' GTX 1060 6GB, but there's an important difference in addition to the VRAM differential - this one has 1152 CUDA cores compared to the full complement of 1280 in the top tier model. Pricing is interesting - it'll cost $199 in the USA, with a £189 cost in the UK.
It's a bold move on Nvidia's part, and places the cut-down GTX 1060 on collision course with two AMD products - the RX 470, which we rather liked, and the four gig version of the RX 480 - assuming you can find one. Availability there, especially on the versions with an aftermarket cooler appears to be thin on the ground.
Based on the performance we've seen from the fully enabled GTX 1060, this cut-back model should still present plenty of challenge to the brace of sub-£200 AMD Polaris offerings. We're looking at 90 per cent of the core count found in the more expensive model (costing £40-£50 more), and half the VRAM, but memory bandwidth remains unaltered at 192GB/s. The same 8gbps GDDR5 modules are utilised. On top of that, base and boost clocks remain static.
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It's a bold move on Nvidia's part, and places the cut-down GTX 1060 on collision course with two AMD products - the RX 470, which we rather liked, and the four gig version of the RX 480 - assuming you can find one. Availability there, especially on the versions with an aftermarket cooler appears to be thin on the ground.
Based on the performance we've seen from the fully enabled GTX 1060, this cut-back model should still present plenty of challenge to the brace of sub-£200 AMD Polaris offerings. We're looking at 90 per cent of the core count found in the more expensive model (costing £40-£50 more), and half the VRAM, but memory bandwidth remains unaltered at 192GB/s. The same 8gbps GDDR5 modules are utilised. On top of that, base and boost clocks remain static.
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