MSI offers MSI GTX 1060 with relatively disappointing features. GTX 1060 graphics cards with GDDR5X memory from most GPU manufacturers have come onto the market in recent weeks, offering the opportunity to increase the speed of memory clocks and performance compared to the old standard GDDR5-based counterparts.
MSI presents “disappointing” MSI GTX 1060 based on GDDR5X
After introducing the new technology, Nvidia’s GTX 1080 came on the market with 10 Gbps GDDR5X memory and was later available with 11 Gbps faster memory. That is surely a significant increase over the 8 Gbps for available 6 GB GTX 1060 graphics cards. And now it is disappointing that manufacturers don’t seem to take advantage of this increase in potential memory performance, especially from MSI.
MSI’s GTX 1060 Armor 6G D5XOC has been released online, with GDDR5X memory and the same core clock speeds as its GDDR5-based counterpart, the GTX 1060 Armor 6G OCV1. This means that the recently introduced model offers no noticeable improvements and offers the same memory speed as the GDDR5.
What we see in this new GDDR5X-based design is a circuit board that looks identical to MSI’s GTX 1080 Armor graphics cards, with the SLI connector and the same 8+6-pin power configuration, which is a remarkable change from the normal GTX 1060 Armor, which has SLI compatibility and uses a single 8-pin PCIe power connector. The SLI fingers on the PCB of this GPU may not be usable because the GTX 1060 does not support SLI/Multi-GPU.
Remember that the GTX 1060 with GDDR5X is like a trimmed GTX 1080, which can not take advantage of the higher storage speeds and is really disappointing GTX 1060 with GDDR5X.