NVIDIA To Launch GeForce GTX 1060 with 5GB Graphics Memory

Neo Cyrus

2017-12-26 19:06

Dwwolf:

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.

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schmidtbag

2017-12-26 21:47

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.

#5504666

Sixtyfps

2017-12-26 22:37

Nvidia says " Our next card is going to be a 1070ti with 9 gigs of Vram

#5504673

Aura89

2017-12-26 23:26

schmidtbag:

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.

Better then having an entirely new range of products that are 100% and completely rebranded cards with maybe a slight change in frequency and maybe a slight change in memory. And those are big maybes. I'm looking at you 500 series AMD.

#5504674

icedman

2017-12-26 23:26

threre's only about 65$ cad difference between the 3 and 6gb version fitting something in between the 2 seems very redundant to me may as well just get the 6gb version. This only makes sense if they're phasing out the 3gb version.

#5504696

Stormyandcold

2017-12-27 01:27

Aura89:

Better then having an entirely new range of products that are 100% and completely rebranded cards with maybe a slight change in frequency and maybe a slight change in memory. And those are big maybes. I'm looking at you 500 series AMD.

Yeah. If this was AMD, it would've been part of a new product line for sure. The positive here is that the naming scheme is clear and there's going to be a price drop for it. There's no confusion that this is a "new" product.

#5504714

DLD

2017-12-27 02:52

Either scumbags or *diots. And, just like schmidtbag wrote: "littering their product line with confusing and pointless products that nobody asked for". For g0d's sake, wasn't it THAT HARD to call the "new" card something like ''1055", or "1055 Ti", "1059 Vanadium", "1059 Kevlar"...? At least, that would have saved many people from confusion...

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Stormyandcold

2017-12-27 05:56

DLD:

Either scumbags or *diots. And, just like schmidtbag wrote: "littering their product line with confusing and pointless products that nobody asked for". For g0d's sake, wasn't it THAT HARD to call the "new" card something like ''1055", or "1055 Ti", "1059 Vanadium", "1059 Kevlar"...? At least, that would have saved many people from confusion...

Even if it was to be renamed, why would it have a lower level name than GTX1060 when it has the same number of cores as the 6GB version?

#5504731

Aura89

2017-12-27 06:06

DLD:

For g0d's sake, wasn't it THAT HARD to call the "new" card something like ''1055", or "1055 Ti", "1059 Vanadium", "1059 Kevlar"...? At least, that would have saved many people from confusion...

Yes, because, you know, i'm not consistantly asked when asked what GPU to get from friends "What's a ti? do i want that? is it any better? isn't it just the same as the 1070?" etc. etc. etc. And if it were some 1050 line of cards that would make literally zero sense since the GTX 1060 3GB would be "above" it yet perform less. No, what you would want would be more confusing. Honestly, if people are not sure about what they are buying, if its worth it, if they are confused, etc. Then they really shouldn't be buying it. There are websites like this: http://gpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Nvidia-GTX-1060-6GB-vs-Nvidia-GTX-1060-3GB/3639vs3646 Which are easily accessible and come up very easily when someone has a question of "gtx 1060 3gb vs 6gb" in google, that there is no real reason to be confused, let alone asking people/forums for help if they need it. There's no excuse for being confused and making a bad decision.

#5504754

The Reeferman

2017-12-27 08:52

Stormyandcold:

Even if it was to be renamed, why would it have a lower level name than GTX1060 when it has the same number of cores as the 6GB version?

Because it only has a 160bit memory bus width instead of 192bit for the other 1060 cards. And depending on the game that can impact performance.

#5504760

alanm

2017-12-27 09:37

Sounds like marketing hanky-panky with penny pinching cost cutting. IMO they should have just made the 3gb model a 4gb card and left the bus width alone and at same price.

#5504791

yasamoka

2017-12-27 11:17

alanm:

Sounds like marketing hanky-panky with penny pinching cost cutting. IMO they should have just made the 3gb model a 4gb card and left the bus width alone and at same price.

That's not possible except with an asymmetrical memory design. I'm glad those designs finally died with the 970 fiasco.

#5504808

alanm

2017-12-27 12:31

Ah.. thought the 5gb would be asymmetrical too, but it fits the 160bit bus @ 32bits per gb module. Yeah 4gb would have to be 128 or 256.

#5504813

xIcarus

2017-12-27 12:53

Aura89:

Yes, because, you know, i'm not consistantly asked when asked what GPU to get from friends "What's a ti? do i want that? is it any better? isn't it just the same as the 1070?" etc. etc. etc. And if it were some 1050 line of cards that would make literally zero sense since the GTX 1060 3GB would be "above" it yet perform less. No, what you would want would be more confusing. Honestly, if people are not sure about what they are buying, if its worth it, if they are confused, etc. Then they really shouldn't be buying it. There are websites like this: http://gpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Nvidia-GTX-1060-6GB-vs-Nvidia-GTX-1060-3GB/3639vs3646 Which are easily accessible and come up very easily when someone has a question of "gtx 1060 3gb vs 6gb" in google, that there is no real reason to be confused, let alone asking people/forums for help if they need it. There's no excuse for being confused and making a bad decision.

I agree with you but there are unfortunately WAY too many tech illiterate people. For example when I was little I wasn't so literate when it came to stuff like this so I bought a 5700LE instead of a regular 5700. I naively thought it's an improved/revised version of the 5700 at a better price. Had the naming scheme been proper, it would have been an FX5650 or even lower than that; something I wouldn't have considered. I think that they should make more use of the extra space they have. They could have easily renamed the 3GB GTX1600 to a GTX1055 in this case. Or 1070 and 1075 instead of the 1070Ti. 1085 instead of 1080Ti. Not touching 1090 since those should historically be dual-GPU cards.

#5504872

Stormyandcold

2017-12-27 17:26

Well this review by HH gives us some ballpark figures regarding the differences to expect (look at GTX1060 6 vs 3); http://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/msi_geforce_gtx_1060_gaming_x_3gb_review,12.html (Bare in-mind this is using a more premium version of the 3GB card). I think this new version will be fine for 1080p gaming while being cheap enough for more people to be able to afford it in Asia.

#5504875

phatbx133

2017-12-27 17:37

Like 970 with 3.5gb memory, This 1060 with 4.5gb memory? lol

#5504881

schmidtbag

2017-12-27 17:53

Andrewg97:

Just created this account to point out how wrong you are. If it wasn't because nvidia made sub 200$ 1060 then people like me would have never been able to buy one ( i live in a country with 200 $ limit on imports). This is just one of the many reasons, more variants give people more choices.

Riiiight.... So you're telling me that you legitimately can't pay the difference between the 3GB and 6GB model? If you're on that much of a budget, how about don't get a 1060? There are plenty of really good but older GPUs out there for the same (or lower) price. This 5GB model will do nothing but close a price gap that already wasn't that big to begin with. So if this is what you are so adamant about disagreeing over, I can't imagine what other petty things you will also argue about.

#5504882

schmidtbag

2017-12-27 17:54

sverek:

For 1080p, 3GB is enough for standard gaming. Considering the fact that user not going to play on ULTRA settings with 1060, it lowers memory usage of textures, etc... Once user starts to go wild and imports 4k textures mods for Skyrim, 6Gb is more desirable.

3GB is enough, but for some games it's just barely enough. I would argue 4GB is the sweet spot for 1080p, at least for current games. 6GB is currently a little overkill, but ought to be sustainable for a while.

#5504915

tsunami231

2017-12-27 20:29

i dont see the point to this, is the current gen not saturated enough with "models"?

#5504919

Fender178

2017-12-27 20:38

Well more mindless BS PR by Nvidia. It's like they knew that they should not have released the 3Gb version of the 1060 and by releasing the 5GB version its making the 3GB even more obsolete than it was when it first launched. First the 1070 Ti and now this. What's next for them to release a 1090 now with 2 1080s on it? Or maybe a 1060 ti with 7GB of RAM and 1400-1500 Cuda cores. What AMD card is this going to compete with?