NVIDIA has announced yet another graphics card, the GTX 1060 3GB edition. But while it might just sound like a GTX 1060 with half the RAM, there is a bit to it than that. First of all, yes, the 3GB model now ships with half the VRAM from the 6GB GDDR5 on the full-fledged 1060 model. But NVIDIA has also made some cutbacks to the GPU. The 3GB edition gets 1152 CUDA cores compared to the 1280 on the 6GB model. The texture units have also been dropped from 80 to 72 on the 3GB edition. This is due to disabling 1 out of the 10 SM units on the GP106 GPU on the 1060. This drops the...
Source: http://www.gsmarena.com/nvidia_announces_gtx_1060_3gb-news-20068.php
