NVIDIA just announced the NVIDIA GTX 1060 5GB GDDR5 graphics card, which will only be available for the Asian market, with some limitations and minor cuts.

The latest NVIDIA movements are not very normal and the rumors that arrive about the next generation, are at least outlandish. The company has presented a curious graphics card, in this case, a new NVIDIA GTX 1060, but this one with 5GB of memory, which would be located between the original 6GB model and the trimmed 3GB model. This graphics card will only hit the market for the Asia-Pacific market, launched directly for Internet cafes, offering a good performance / price solution, for systems to be updated.

These improvements are not limited to memory capacity. The new GTX 1060 will implement a new silicon, specifically the GP106-350-K3-A1, which continues to offer 1280 CUDA Cores, like the 6GB memory model, but in this case with 5GB of GDDR5 memory running at 8GHz, offering a memory interface of 160bits, providing a bandwidth of 160GB / s, lower than the 192GB / s offered by the 6GB / 3GB models. It is not the first time that a large company has produced a graphics card only for the Asian market, it is only necessary to see the RX 560D from AMD, a renowned RX 460 for the Asian market.

Nothing else is known about this new 1060GB GTX 5 developed by NVIDIA, so it could go to the same frequency or to a frequency, perhaps, shortened, since the memory bandwidth has been cut. What we also need to know is the price, to see if it is justified, but how much can a graphics card make it cheaper to take away 1GB of GDDR5 memory, about € 5-10, at most? The truth is that it makes no sense to launch so much product that we no longer know where to place it, we only need to see the GTX 1070 Ti, which does not exist reference model with overclocking because NVIDIA does not allow it, because it would surpass the GTX 1080.

Source: wccftech