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1060 9Gbps and 1080 11Gbps were announced with 1080Ti in the beginning of March but only today they are starting to appear in benchmarks and retail. 1060 9Gpbs is especially interesting as it seems to be directly targeted against AMD's RX580 Polaris upgrade. 1080 11Gbsp seems like a plug for the hole which NV have now between 1080 and 1080Ti, since 1080Ti's launch.
Both GTX 1060 9Gbps and GTX 1080 11Gbsp are using new versions of GP106 and GP104 chips.
First benchmark is MSI GeForce GTX 1080 GAMING X PLUS
Gigabyte, Asus, EVGA, Inno3D and the usual have announced the cards today as well so more benchmarks coming soon probably.
Update: PCGH have 1060 9Gbps compared to 570 and 580 in The Witcher 3:
Update 2: first 1060 9Gbps review - MSI GeForce GTX 1060 GAMING X PLUS Review
Both GTX 1060 9Gbps and GTX 1080 11Gbsp are using new versions of GP106 and GP104 chips.
First benchmark is MSI GeForce GTX 1080 GAMING X PLUS
The GPU is clocked at 1.683 MHz with a 1.823 MHz boost at default clocks. This is 100% similar to the regular Gaming X model. However the effective memory data-rate was bumped up from 10.000 MHz towards 11.000 MHz (effective data-rate). Precisely that increase offers the PLUS model 10% more memory bandwidth. And yes the GeForce GTX 1080 very much so likes more graphics memory bandwidth.
Quite honestly I did not expect a card with slightly faster graphics memory to make this much of a difference performance wise. On a relative scale, everything is just that, ... relative. As seen from the regular Gaming X model I doubt you're going to notice a few FPS more. But the fact remains that just that 10% faster memory is responsible for an extra 4% in gaming performance (compared to the standard Gaming X). And once we tweak that card that difference is roughly 10% faster compared to the regular Gaming X card. And when we take relativity one step further, once you compare all the way back to a reference (Founders Edition) GeForce GTX 1080 and apply a tweak, you can again up-to 20% in performance. And that certainly is interesting.
Gigabyte, Asus, EVGA, Inno3D and the usual have announced the cards today as well so more benchmarks coming soon probably.
Update: PCGH have 1060 9Gbps compared to 570 and 580 in The Witcher 3:
Update 2: first 1060 9Gbps review - MSI GeForce GTX 1060 GAMING X PLUS Review