During the last GDC, NVIDIA announced the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti and also the upcoming release of faster GTX 1060 and 1080 graphics cards. According to them, companies like MSI, Gigabyte or ASUS can create variations of the GeForce GTX 1060 and GTX 1080 with faster memory than the reference designs.


A few weeks after there are now news from ASUS. The GeForce GTX 1080 STRIX OC now has 11 Gbps GDDR5X memory (ROG-STRIX-GTX1080-O8G-11GBPS) and the GTX 1060 STRIX OC 6GB (GTX1060-O6G-9GBPS) comes now with 9 Gbps GDDR5. The 1080 SKUs will receive approximately a 10% boost in memory bandwidth. Although we don't know the clock frequencies yet, we doubt that this little increment will substantially affect to the overall performance.

The GTX 1080 with 11 GT/sec memory is a ROG Strix model and it appears to have the same power requirements and heatsink as the standard ROG Strix GeForce GTX 1080. Meanwhile, the new GTX 1060 doesn't show the STRIX name tag but features a beefy cooler. Apart from the good cooler and the faster memory, this new card appears to be similar to other GeForce GTX 1060 cards in ASUS' portfolio.

So far ASUS has not revealed details on pricing and availability on their ROG-STRIX-GTX1080-O8G-11GBPS and GTX1060-O6G-9GBPS graphics card.




Source: Guru3D