Msi reveals its gddr5x-based gtx 1060 without much news

In recent weeks, GTX 1060 graphics cards with GDDR5X memory have started to appear by most GPU manufacturers, offering the ability to increase memory clock speed and performance compared to their standard based counterparts. on GDDR5.

MSI reveals its 'disappointing' GTX 1060 based on GDDR5X

At launch, Nvidia's GTX 1080 went on sale with 10Gbps GDDR5X memory and was later available with faster 1Gbps memory, representing a significant increase over the 8Gbps offered by the most 6GB GTX 1060 graphics cards. What's disappointing is that manufacturers don't seem to be taking advantage of this increase in potential memory performance, especially MSI.

MSI's GTX 1060 Armor 6GD5X OC has appeared online, with GDDR5X memory and the same core clock speeds as its GDDR5-based counterpart, the GTX 1060 Armor 6G OCV1. This means that the recently introduced model does not offer any notable improvement, with the same memory speed as GDDR5.

What we see with this new GDDR5X-based design is a printed circuit board that looks identical to MSI's GTX 1080 Armor graphics cards, with the SLI port and the same 8 + 6-pin power configuration, which is a change Remarkable over the normal GTX 1060 Armor, which lacks SLI support and uses a single 8-pin PCIe power connector. The SLI fingers on the printed circuit board of this GPU are probably unusable as the GTX 1060 is not compatible with SLI / Multi-GPU.

Recall that the GTX 1060 with GDDR5X is like a cropped GTX 1080, unable to take advantage of higher memory speeds, it is disappointing.

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