Nvidia is announcing new cards of its new 10xx series after every few days. The new series uses the Pascal technology, unlike the Maxwell technology used in GeForce 900 series.
Today, Nvidia announced a 3 GB version of its new card the GeForce GTX 1060. The original GTX 1060 has 6 GB of VRAM. Although the name shows that the only difference in these two cards should be the memory size, but it’s not. The newly announced version is tweaked slightly, gives lower performance than the original version and is cheaper.
The 3 GB version has the same transistor count, same core clock(1506MHz), same boost clock(1709MHz), same memory bandwidth(192-bit) and it takes the same amount of power (120W). But there are a lot of differences as well.
The 3 GB version has 1152 CUDA cores, compared to the 1280 CUDA cores of GTX 1060 6GB version. It has 72 texture units compared to the 80 units of the original version. And it has 3.9 TFLOPs compared to the 4.4 TFLOPs of the original model.
The new, 3GB model starts at $199 only. There are no graphs or any performance charts yet to compare the performance of these two cards. But Nvidia says that the new card will give only 10% less performance than the original version.