Allen
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[RUMOR] NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB To Be Updated With GP104 GPU
..there are rumors that NVIDIA will be shipping some units of the GeForce GTX 1060 with [partly defective] GP104 class [1080 class] GPUs. .. The new GP104 chip would be known as GP104-140. The GP104-140 GPU will be the full [1080] chip with many SM units disabled...
Interesting rumor. Some Nvidia 1060 GPUs will really be 1080GPUs, partly disabled. Up to now, the 1060 has been using "its own GPU chip".
This is normal practice for AMD and Nvidia -- make a top chip for the top card and use defective versions for lower end products (with defective parts "turned off"). In a few products, with a BIOS mod, it MAY be possible to turn some of the disabled "features" on again.
Fun for future Nvidia 1060 owners -- IF they could make a 1070 out of their 1060 (I'm not saying that's guaranteed possible).
In a similar fashion, I imagine 6 core and 4 core AMD Zen CPUs will be standard 8 core units with two or four cores disabled. While the top Zen CPU 8 core will be a "hand selected for top clock rate" 8 core (but ordinary otherwise).
