Nvidia is rarely subtle with its product announcements, yet it has appeared to have given its GeForce GTX 1060 a stealth upgrade with the addition of GDDR5X memory.
With no official reveal, Nvidia’s product page for the GTX 1060 – a rather capable graphics card that can run games full-whack at 1080p and 60 frames per second or push the higher 1440p resolution with a few tweaks – notes the GPU now sports faster video memory. Or at least the 6GB graphics card does; the 3GB version is still equipped with GDDR5. That should mean the 6GB GPU will more capable of powering pixels on a connected display.
With the GDDDR5X GTX 1060 model, Nvidia lists the memory speed at 8Gbps, which is the same as the other cards sporting GGDR5. So on paper, the upgrade doesn’t look like it’s offering anything.
So while the GDDR5X model has what appears to be the same data throughput, there’s a chance the memory speed could be clocked higher and when Nvidia’s partners like MSi and Asus get hold of the GPUs they could extract more data throughput from the base GPU.
There are now four variants of the GTX 1060 to pick from: 3GB of GGRD5 running at 8Gbps, 6GB or the same memory running at 8Gbps, a model with 6GB of GDDR5 running at 9Gbps, and then the 6GB GDDR5X model running at an unconfirmed speed.
