I'm glad they released this, there wasn't quite enough combinations of 1050-1060's. Another 5 or 6 and we shall be sorted.

It's not a horrible idea. At least it's not the same 1060 we get from every other partner. This should actually have some performance difference. Considering there is still no mid level RTX(and if there was, that cost though), or anything from AMD aside from the rumored Polaris refresh, people still want products like this. It's not gonna do 1440p 120hz, but it's not made to do so. 1080p gaming just fine. People seem to think if it's not RTX or one of the thousand 1080 series then it's unnecessary. Fact is, this price performance point is the most popular.

Hilbert Hagedoorn:

With this new refresh SKU one thing becomes clear as well, a GeForce GTX 2060 is not going be released anytime soon.

It would be interesting to know what 2060 would be like, though. If we assume 1070(Ti) and 1080 are phasing out, there's a huge price & power gap between 1060 5X and 2070.

Wait 300$ msrp (probably around 350$ retail) for a refresh of a past generation entry level gpu? The GPU market needs some competition.

SLI fingers! Finally, "Cheap" SLI!

Main speed improvement is probably this one: 16.7M Customizable Color RGB Lighting Set it to green for better performance.

but but, doesnt gddr5x have lower cuda performance/openCL???? isnt that a downgrade?

This suggests that at least some parts of the GPU memory system is designed for a 32 byte prefetch. The 64 byte prefetch may result in overfetch when filling up the L2 cache with data. This would reduce the cache hit ratio and reduce effectiveness of the memory bandwidth increase of GDDR5X.

http://monitorinsider.com/GDDR5X.html

"Precise specs, however, are missing, the GDDR5X is listed at 192 GB/s which we hope is a mistake, as that is the same as it was before 🙂" OK, what is the likelihood that, on the manufacturer's official website, https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/products/10series/geforce-gtx-1060/ ...the one, single specification that would differentiate this GTX 1060 from the rest of the brood would be inaccurately reported? Now, I am taking note of the catch-all "GDDR5/X" description, but, I wouldn't be in the least surprised if Nvidia would, in essence, be saying, "Here, have some of that magic GDDR5X!", and leave it clocked at 8GHz if only not to upset their already overly-granular product stack.

quantum hacker:

Not most popular, most affordable/most purchased (for people wanting higher performance). 1080ti is the most popular 10 series card but most can't justify the cost. Think Nissan Maxima / Nissan GTR.

Popularity=Sales numbers. 1080ti is the most powerful of the Pascal card, Steam charts alone show what is the most used/popular card. https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey 1080 and 1080ti are low on the list.

Glad to see an alternative to the RTX line of video cards , i think the RTX 2060 would be an expensive one. I'm waiting for the Asus ROG Matrix Turbo Strix GT DirectCUII OC Poseidon Platinum Edition GTX 1060 6GB GDDR5X 😱

Pretty sure they said no tensor on x60 type products, so RTX branding is limited to x70 and above. No that this means much since nvidia have been known to create new upper tiers and utilizing the old tier branding assumptions to lead those not in the know (aka the vast majority) into thinking they are buying a better product (with the accompanying price hike) than they are actually buying. #marketing

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Palit have 1060 GDDR5X version too GeForce® GTX 1060 GamingPro OC+

Ssateneth:

SLI fingers! Finally, "Cheap" SLI!

Even if it supports sli makes no sense to go for it! A 2070 or 1080 will give the same perfomance or better at close cost or cheaper! And always no fidling with drivers waiting /praying developets to implement it and if they do pray it is good .

there are to many configurations of cards happening or is just me?

This card doesn't make any sense to me they already boosted the gddr5 speeds by 1ghz and it made little to no difference in performance and now they're throwing gddr5x and charging a small premium compared to whats already available they should just drop prices and be done with it.

icedman:

This card doesn't make any sense to me they already boosted the gddr5 speeds by 1ghz and it made little to no difference in performance and now they're throwing gddr5x and charging a small premium compared to whats already available they should just drop prices and be done with it.

people will buy anyway, just look at prices of 20xx series comapred to the 10xx series, there is hugh jump in price from last gen to this gen

Celcius:

"Precise specs, however, are missing, the GDDR5X is listed at 192 GB/s which we hope is a mistake, as that is the same as it was before 🙂" OK, what is the likelihood that, on the manufacturer's official website, https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/products/10series/geforce-gtx-1060/ ...the one, single specification that would differentiate this GTX 1060 from the rest of the brood would be inaccurately reported? Now, I am taking note of the catch-all "GDDR5/X" description, but, I wouldn't be in the least surprised if Nvidia would, in essence, be saying, "Here, have some of that magic GDDR5X!", and leave it clocked at 8GHz if only not to upset their already overly-granular product stack.

That would make zero sense.

Tomatone:

Palit have 1060 GDDR5X version too GeForce® GTX 1060 GamingPro OC+

Koniakki:

GDDR5X chips surplus? Will this small increase in bandwidth bring any noteworthy performance gains? https://i.postimg.cc/28tgZfqm/GTX-1060-GDDR5-X-vs-GDDR5.png

Well that's a 10% increase in memory bandwidth. I've just now run my GTX 1070 with a 10% VRAM overclock and I'm seeing a 3% increase in Graphics Score in Timespy and a 3.5% increase in Firestrike. One thing to bear in mind is that the GTX 1070 is more bandwidth limited than the GTX 1060, because the GTX 1070 has 50% more cores than the GTX 1060, but only has 33% more VRAM bandwidth than the GTX 1060 - this would mean that I would see more performance benefit by increasing the bandwidth of my GTX 1070 than I would with a GTX 1060; also my GTX 1070 is factory overclocked on the core and during this testing was in the 1975Mhz zone, which again would help show any possible gains through VRAM overclocking in the best light. Given that I only saw a 3% performance improvement with a 10% VRAM overclock on my GTX 1070, then you'd expect even less performance increase from this new variant of the GTX 1060. You would see bigger performance gains in games that are very intense on VRAM bandwidth (not sure which ones those would be), but I would be surprised if any gains in such situations would be more than say 5%, especially seeing as the GTX 1060 is not VRAM bandwidth starved in relation to it's relatively weak number of core processors. Seems like a pretty irrelevant relaunch of the GTX 1060.

labidas:

It's 2016 again.

it's not a question of year... it would be, if maker have the choise of GPU and right now there is none in this segment of the market, so they tried to make new with old and get some few horsepower. On other hand GTX 1060 does it pretty well for the price and is less expensive than equivalent from AMD then why don't use it despite the original release date?