Posted on Friday, May 11 2018 @ 10:59 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
Weird news is coming out of Asia. It appears NVIDIA is working on a new GeForce GTX 1060 card that will feature the GP104, the same GPU used by the GTX 1070 and 1080 video cards. These cards will feature a cut-down version of the GP104, called GP104-150, and will reportedly match the specifications of the GP106 GPU that's currently used by the GTX 1060.
NVIDIA will also be giving a new name to this SKU which will be known as the GP104-150 GPU. The 3 GB model was going to use the GP104-140 GPU. This would also make it the sixth variant in the GeForce GTX 1060 family. We know of the 3 GB, 5 GB, 6 GB (8 Gbps / 9 Gbps) models and now we know that a GP104 variant exists while a new one is going to launch pretty soon if this rumor is accurate. As for the core specifications, nothing changes from what we already get on the GTX 1060 6 GB model. The GP104 GPU may slightly affect the thermals and power consumption but it will not be noticeable at all. We can also expect the card to improve core and boost frequencies offering more stable clocks.
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