NVIDIA just announced a new 3GB memory version of the GTX 1060 graphics card, and the ordinary 6GB version of the GTX 1080, although it seems that only the latter half of the memory, but it does not seem like we imagined.
Although the 3GB version has only 6GB of general GDDR5 memory, the number of GPUs in the graphics card is also reduced accordingly. Compared with the 6GB version with 1280 CUDA cores, the 3GB version has reduced the number of cores to 1152, and the texture mapping unit has also dropped from 80 to 72. The TFLOPS floating-point performance dropped from 4.4 to 3.9, and NVIDIA said that overall performance dropped by only about 10%.
Other features, 3GB version and 6GB version of the GTX 1060 are consistent, including the base frequency of 1506MHz and the highest quasi-1708MHz product, 8Gbps memory speed and 192 memory bus width, and even 120w of power is the same.
It is reported that the 3GB version of the GTX 1060 is priced at 199 US dollars (about 1320 yuan), which is 50 US dollars cheaper than the 6GB standard version of the GTX 1060. It seems that in order to compete with AMD's RX480, NVIDIA has also launched a variety of configuration products to deal with.