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ASUS announces GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps and 1060 9Gbps models

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"The clock speeds were not revealed yet, but we expect to see them closer to the launch (mid-April)."

https://videocardz.com/67687/asus-announces-geforce-gtx-1080-11gbps-and-1060-9gbps-models

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Elfear said:
This makes no sense to me. It's like the old Nvidia 8400 GS's with 1GB of vram.
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This is a VRAM speed increase; not a capacity change. 1060/1080 increasing from 8/10Gbps to 9/11Gbps, respectively. Still 6/8GB VRAM.

On a side note, nice to see cards with a factory OC and faster memory with the same name.

Take notice, AMD, as you are probably about to release a card with a factory OC and the same memory speed but have the nerve to rebrand it in the same performance tier of next-gen.

At least one GPU company wants to make the best out of a chip as they possibly can, using the latest and greatest memory speed. We'll see how the other company does business soon enough, since I only linked rumours after all....
 
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crisium said:
This is a VRAM speed increase; not a capacity change. 1060/1080 increasing from 8/10Gbps to 9/11Gbps, respectively. Still 6/8GB VRAM.

On a side note, nice to see cards with a factory OC and faster memory with the same name.

Take notice, AMD, as you are probably about to release a card with a factory OC and the same memory speed but have the nerve to rebrand it in the same performance tier of next-gen.

At least one GPU company wants to make the best out of a chip as they possibly can, using the latest and greatest memory speed. We'll see how the other company does business soon enough, since I only linked rumours after all....
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Doh! That's what I get for reading too fast. 😳

Thanks for clarifying.
 
With the 1060 already having a slight edge on the 480, I think the 1060 with faster memory is only going to pull away even more from the soon to be announced RX 580 with only a slight core overclock (unless there's another difference/change that I'm unaware of). Disappointed to see AMD rebranding cards with such a minor change. The 300 series made sense because the initial launch of the 200 series paired with such an awful reference cooler really justified showing what Hawaii could do with a decent cooler.
 
Just for reference on GTX1070 oc memory from 8ghz to 9500Mhz increase performance by around 8%.
GTX1060 with 9Ghz memory should be around 6% faster than with 8ghz memory.
The gap will be under 30% vs GTX1070 maybe even lower than is GTX1070 vs GTX1080 right now.
 
SimianR said:
Disappointed to see AMD rebranding cards with such a minor change. The 300 series made sense because the initial launch of the 200 series paired with such an awful reference cooler really justified showing what Hawaii could do with a decent cooler.
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Where have the changes been listed? Or are you just guessing?
 
SimianR said:
The 300 series made sense because the initial launch of the 200 series paired with such an awful reference cooler really justified showing what Hawaii could do with a decent cooler.
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Well the reference 480 cooler wasn't very good either and some of the cards really should have binned down to a 470, so I think we have a somewhat similar situation.

From the rumors these feel more like a 480X than a worthy 500 series launch.

NVidia might bump clock speeds as well. I think they could get away with it given the have better efficiency right now. Maybe AMD has made some tweaks that let them catch up, but they have to prove that as Polaris was a bit of a letdown even if you weren't on the hype train.

How much does a memory OC benefit performance though? I didn't think there was a bottleneck for Pascal for most games and settings.
 
Elfear said:
This makes no sense to me. It's like the old Nvidia 8400 GS's with 1GB of vram.
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This makes sense to me. Vega is launching soon.

Cue refresh of 1080s and 1060s with better binning current gen chips and better RAM to make Vegas not look like as good of a deal.

Launching first has it's advantages, this is one. (not to mention sales on 1080s have slowed down, so a refresh might tempt the holdouts who won't spring or wait for a 1080 Ti)
 
OatisCampbell said:
This makes sense to me. Vega is launching soon.

Cue refresh of 1080s and 1060s with better binning current gen chips and better RAM to make Vegas not look like as good of a deal.

Launching first has it's advantages, this is one. (not to mention sales on 1080s have slowed down, so a refresh might tempt the holdouts who won't spring or wait for a 1080 Ti)
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Launching with faster memory makes sense. I misinterpreted the announcement to mean more vram which didn't make any sense.
 
Arachnotronic said:
GTX 1070 is plenty competitive now.
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i am pretty sure cutdown vega will beat it pretty hard if full vega is atleast 10% faster than GTX1080.
Also with gddr5x it will be more competetive vs GTX1080 11Ghz and GTX1060 9Ghz.GTX1070 with slow ddr5 have pretty bad performance/price now.Atleast here in europe.
Both GTX1080 11Ghz and GTX1060 9Ghz will be much better buy.
 
Head1985 said:
i am pretty sure cutdown vega will beat it pretty hard if full vega is atleast 10% faster than GTX1080.
Also with gddr5x it will be more competetive vs GTX1080 11Ghz and GTX1060 9Ghz.GTX1070 with slow ddr5 have pretty bad performance/price now.Atleast here in europe.
Both GTX1080 11Ghz and GTX1060 9Ghz will be much better buy.
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For margins, Vega will need to be 10% faster than 1080 v.1, AMD can't compete with a $500 card (1080 v.2) with a slower part and it stands to reason better RAM + improved process/revisions since last summer will result in 1080s that are faster.

This refresh leads me to believe Vegas are very competitive. NVIDIA wouldn't make better 1080s and 1060s unless they felt they needed to.
 
They are just changing the official specs to support both - it's not a wholesale replacement like where GTX 260 Core 216 killed off Core 192.. It's up to AIB partners to choose between 8/10 vs 9/11, and I suspect you'll see plenty of 8/10 still produced especially at around MSRP. I expect to see 9/11 on higher priced varients where the AIB passes the costs of the faster chips (and then some) onto the consumer.

I wouldn't look too much into it.
 
I think it's smart. It's not a major improvement but Nvidia would prefer to be in the best spot possible benchmarking wise vs the new release of Vega.

I've heard pascal can really scale with vram speed increases so it's a very smart move.

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