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There's a couple of rumors/leaks about the new cards, one about Polaris (that is so pointless that I wasn't sure about posting it or not) and one about Pascal:

AMD Polaris 10 and 11 OpenGL benchmarks spotted

http://videocardz.com/59468/amd-polaris-10-and-11-opengl-benchmarks-spotted

There are few things to consider before you try to analyze those scores. First, we don’t know if those parts are mobile or desktop, secondly we don’t know what platform was used, furthermore it’s unclear if those chips were running at full speed and using full silicons, and finally OpenGL benchmarks are often capped at 60 FPS. So in other words, those values are probably not the best specimens for inter-GPU comparison, if they are useful at all.

However new scores reveal the following: AMD Polaris 11 SKU 67E8 is faster than Polaris 11 67FF, and.. that’s basically all we can learn from this leak.

It's a comparison between two Polaris 11 chips, one Polaris 10 and a GTX 950. You can check the benchmarks at the link, but the summary is that the 950 destroys the other three cards. And since we saw Polaris 10 running Hitman at 1440p@60 at GDC, something that the 950 can't do, we should take this results with a huge grain of salt.

 

Rumor: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 (Ti) could feature 6GB RAM

http://videocardz.com/59471/nvidia-geforce-gtx-1060-ti-6gb-ram

In graphics industry leaks come from various places. Normally a single forum post should be treated with a lot of skepticism, but since ‘Topway’ is the same leaker that brought us one of the first Pascal GP104 pictures, I think it’s worth considering this new info.

Although the leaker clearly says GTX 1060 in his post, I think it’s too early to be sure if third GP104-based graphics card would be named after GTX 1060 or GTX 1060 Ti, as former GTX x60 Ti parts (GTX 660 Ti and GTX 760 Ti) were both based on GK104 silicons.

The GTX 1060 (Ti) is rumored to feature GP104-150 GPU and 6GB GDDR5 memory, whereas GTX 1070 would use GP104-200 and 8GB GDDR5. Finally GeForce GTX 1080 would come with GP104-400 GPU and 8GB GDDR5X frame buffer. So all these cards are supposedly based on Pascal GP104 GPU, but in different configurations. The 6GB variant would probably require 192-bit memory bus, which is actually not that surprising. Even GM204 had 192-bit variant, although it was only used for mobile GeForce GTX 970M and desktop GTX 960 OEM.

I don't know if it will be named 1060 or 1060Ti, but having 6GB of VRAM wouldn't be that surprising.