Recall that the GeForce GTX 460 came in 768MB and 1GB flavors. Nvidia has played this kind of name game with its cards before. HereвЂ™s how the two вЂњGTX 1060sвЂќ compare on paper, in convenient tabular form:ДЄ block diagram of the GP106 GPU. Contrast that approach with AMDвЂ™s Radeon RX 480 4GB, whose only difference from its 8GB cousin is that 4GB of missing RAM. Nvidia disabled one of the cardвЂ™s shader multiprocessor (SM) blocks, dropping the GTX 1060 3GBвЂ™s resource allocation to 1152 stream processors and 72 texture units. The GTX 1060 3GB sustained some cuts to its graphics-processing resources to hit its price target. While the GTX 1060 3GBвЂ™s name might imply a simple halving of its RAM versus its bigger brother, thereвЂ™s more going on under the hood of that card than its innocuous name might suggest. A couple weeks later, Team Green took the wraps off a GTX 1060 with 3GB of RAM that rang in at $200.

The mainstream onslaught didnвЂ™t stop there, however. The GTX 1060 6GB, as we now know it, immediately went to work against the hard-to-get RX 480 with a slew of readily-available aftermarket cards that stickered near NvidiaвЂ™s $250 suggested price tag. The $2 was the first card to play host to a more wallet-friendly Pascal GPU: GP106. Back in July, Nvidia introduced the GeForce GTX 1060, its response to the Radeon RX 480 8GB. Of course, the green team didnвЂ™t ignore the average Joe while it was busy pushing the limits of graphics performance. If that dominance wasnвЂ™t enough, Nvidia did itself one better and advanced its single-GPU performance lead with the GP102 chip in the Pascal Titan X. The GeForce GTX 1070 and GeForce GTX 1080 remain the uncontested performance champions of the high-end graphics card market, thanks in part to AMDвЂ™s more mainstream ambitions for its Polaris-powered graphics cards.

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