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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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
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Does this show that there wont be any mid/low tier Turings for the foreseeable future.
Another thing that caught my attention is the "590 counter"
Because if look at regular 1060 and 580, they mostly trade blows depending of the game.
The 590 should be 10% faster at stock if you take those recent leaks into account, so a regular 1060 with a bit of a mem bump will not really counter it.
So it's either not a GP106 or they have a lot of extra inventory from the crypto crash that was returned to them a couple of months ago, and they wanna get rid of it fast.
Food for thought I guess.
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Gimping more than 1/2 GP104 at 1152 CUDA. Why do that and not release a 660Ti same Cuda count as 670.
Anyway I agree with most of you, regarding increasing memory bandwidth, since 580 and 590 will be just core clocks increases, but memory bandwidth stays the same.
Nvidia: here's a two year old card with some new memory, now pls go sit in your corner TY
Honestly, Nvidia's move seems excessive. Why make a new card when they could just lower the prices? Does this have anything to do with the 300k cards they had in storage or something?
Still, this whole thing sounds weird. Just the concept of Nvidia GP104 dice more than 50% disabled (rather than launch a rebrand and sell the same hardware for more money) is baffling to me. Wouldn't they ultimately make more money by launching a refresh/rebrand (or just cutting MSRPs), giving 1070 performance at 1060 prices, and so on? There can't possibly be that many GP104 dice with that many defects. Not at this point.
Meanwhile what they need is gp104 at 300usd. If rtx 2070 is about 500 for a 445mm die size, id expect they can afford to make a profit selling a 1080 equivalent for 300usd being that it's 314mm in size. Wishful thinking i know
I would imagine when nvidia releases this card it will be a GP104 based model. Probably just to burn through the stock they have lolI agree I never disagreed that NV seemed to label products for the most part. I am sure something has slipped through the cracks over the decades of their existence, but we are talking a slip and not an open flood gate of IDGAF that AMD seems to have and this coming from someone who still has a stack as tall of him of their cards. :roll:
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