Nvidia’s GTX 1060 gets a GDDR5X update to fend off the AMD RX 590

Nvidia has quietly announced a new graphics card: the GTX 1060 GDDR5X. This new graphics card from the green team has been spotted within Nvidia’s own specs sheet for Nvidia’s popular GTX 1060, although little else is known about the card beyond its faster memory spec. Nvidia released the RTX 20-series cards last month, starting at $499 for the RTX 2070. Nvidia’s Turing graphics cards don’t even attempt to compete in the entry-level or mid-range segments, leaving the most popular Pascal card, the GTX 1060, continuing to rule the roost - it’s also the most popular graphics card with Steam users according to the latest hardware survey. That has left AMD in with a chance to capitalise. AMD has been rumoured to be putting together an RX 590 graphics card to capture the volume market. Little is known about the new GPU, but it looks to be similar to the RX 580 - albeit with faster clock speeds than earlier Polaris iterations. That might be why Nvidia has all of a sudden decided to release a new iteration of its most popular graphics card under the radar, fearing AMD securing the mid-range market with a new release.

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