![]() Ports-wise, the EVGA GTX 1060 3GB Gaming packs the stock DVI-D, HDMI 2.0b, and trio of DisplayPort 1.4 connections. You couldn’t ask for a more ideal paragon: The card sticks to the GTX 1060 3GB’s reference speeds, feeds, and pricing. To test the new configuration’s capabilities, EVGA sent us an EVGA GTX 1060 3GB Gaming ($200 on Amazon) for review. ![]() A 6GB GTX 1060 will always have the full 14nm GP106 “Pascal” GPU, while any 3GB versions you see will always pack the pared-down version of the processor. ![]() On the plus side, Nvidia says it won’t mix and match the differing GPU’s memory capacities. Calling it a “GTX 1050 Ti” or “GTX 1060 LE” could’ve avoided all that.Īlas. All this may have been necessary to hit the $200 price point, but calling this card a “GTX 1060” seems destined to confuse buyers who don’t dig into 10-page performance reviews. Add some other under-the-hood changes, and the 3GB GTX 1060 becomes a subtly-yet materially-different GPU than the 6GB GTX 1060. That reduces the graphics card’s CUDA cores to 1152, down from the full-fat 6GB model’s 1280. But more insidiously, the 3GB GTX 1060 actually disables one of the GP106 GPU’s ten streaming multiprocessors. The 3GB version of the GTX 1060 is mostly the same as the full-fat 6GB version, but with a couple of key differences. Enter Nvidia’s 3GB GeForce GTX 1060-a cut-down variant that also starts at $200.
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