Nvidia announces the geforce gtx 1060 3gb

Finally, the announcement of the new inexpensive mid-range graphics card from Nvidia has arrived, the GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB that comes to try to make a place for itself in the equipment of less demanding users and those with a more limited budget.

Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 3GB: technical characteristics

The new GeForce GTX 1060 3GB graphics card comes one notch lower than the original GeForce GTX 1060 thanks to the use of a slightly trimmed Pascal GP106 core with a total of 9 active SMs which translates to 1, 152 CUDA Cores, 72 TMUs and 48 ROPs operating at a maximum frequency in turbo mode of 1.7 GHz. The memory of the card suffers a much bigger cut than its graphic core since it only has 3 GB of GDDR5 memory with a 192-bit interface and a bandwidth of 192 GB / s, a figure that seems very scarce to us and sure that it seriously limits the performance of the card in video games, however it is still a good low-cost option.

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In short, a new cheaper card than the current GeForce GTX 1060 with which it will share a name but not specifications, perhaps a marketing maneuver to make it appear superior to what it really will be. This new card will seek to make things more difficult for AMD and its Radeon RX 470 based on the Polaris 10 silicon and that with 4 GB of memory seems a better option a priori.

Everything indicates that its price in the market will be 219 euros, if it is confirmed we are in front of one of the best components on the market. We hope to try it first hand?

Source: techpowerup