In the face of mining craze, AMD has been in a state of laissez-faire, manufacturers, distributors who want to toss are free, NVIDIA side control is very strict, GeForce is used to play the game, and in addition to mining needs in addition to P106, P104 such a special product, specifications for mining specifically adjusted.
Now in order to meet the needs of Internet cafe owners for eating chicken games, NVIDIA display precision knife method, engage in a GTX 1060 5GB, in the original GTX 1060 6GB based on the part of the memory only cut 5GB cut, while memory bandwidth reduced to 160- bit.
The main reason why NVIDIA does this is that a large part of GTX 1060 6GB is bought and mined by miners, and many players go to Internet cafes to open the black without suitable configuration. Internet cafe owners want to buy GTX 1060 6GB and buy To
Because of this, GTX 1060 5GB will not be retail, but labor package direct supply Internet cafes.
Not only that, NVIDIA will also strictly forbid the GTX 1060 5GB to be used for mining and will supervise with the brand manufacturers. Once found, it will stop supplying immediately.
In fact, as the bit width drops to 160-bit, the digging performance of GTX 1060 5GB will inevitably be greatly affected, not even as good as the GTX 1060 3GB, so miners may not be able to see it either.
