Nvidia will manufacture geforce gtx 1060 using gp104 cores

Nvidia uses the Pascal GP106 graphics core for its GeForce GTX 1060, a silicon that has a maximum of 1280 CUDA Cores and that has shown exceptional performance for a mid-range card. The large production of GP104 chips and the high number of these that do not meet the necessary conditions to be used in the GeForce GTX 1070 and GTX 1080 will make Nvidia use them to manufacture the GeForce GTX 1060.

GeForce GTX 1060 will take advantage of faulty GP104 cores

We know that not all the chips in a silicon wafer come out with the same characteristics, therefore a large number of Pascal GP104 graphics cores do not meet the necessary conditions to be used in the GeForce GTX 1070 and GTX 1080. These cores may have too many Flaws to give life to the most powerful cards but if they can be used to make an inferior model like the GeForce GTX 1060, that's just what Nvidia will do.

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The less graceful GP104 cores will be noticeably cut in their features to suit the specifications of the GeForce GTX 1060, thus Nvidia will be able to take advantage of a large number of cores that would otherwise go to the dustbin. These new GeForce GTX 1060 will be models with 3 GB of memory and for now they will only be seen in the Chinese market, Nvidia does not want to be sued by users, so it will restrict its sale only to China. Hopefully these GTX 1060s with faulty GP104 cores will have higher power consumption than those based on the GP104, something that users could use as an argument to sue Nvidia.

This new version of the GTX 1060 will have the code 1B8 being the GP104 and will be announced very soon.