Gigabyte has recently launched their Stock Keeping Units or SKU products, the 11 GBPS GTX 1080 and the 9 GBPS GTX 1060 in the AORUS Xtreme variant. These new graphic card models are a bump up over the pre-existing 1060 and 1080 versions and should provide a performance increase in real-world tests.
GIGABYTE GTX 1080 11Gbps AORUS Xtreme Specs:
- GPU: GP104
- Cores: 2560
- TMUs: 160
- ROPs: 64
- GPU Base Clock: 1784 MHz
- GPU Boost Clock: 1936 MHz
- Memory Clock: 11008MH
- Memory: 8GB GDDR5 256-bits
The GTX 1060 is the budget beast and an update to this would mean a significant improvement in performance, and possibly bridging the gap with the AMD RX 480 in direct x 12 titles. Also, we’re going to be seeing the RX 580 and RX 570 models out for AMD as well.
GIGABYTE GTX 1060 9 Gbps AORUS Xtreme Specs:
- GPU: GP106
- Cores: 1280
- TMUs: 80
- ROPs: 48
- GPU Base Clock: 1632 MHz
- GPU Boost Clock: 1860 MHz
- Memory Clock: 9024MH
- Memory: 6GB GDDR5 192-bits
The GTX 1060 also comes factory overclocked, removing the need for further overclocking.These graphic cards are now available officially through major retailers.
