Nope. The 4GB cards that can be unlocked to 8GB are actually 8GB 480s that have a special BIOS that limit their performance.

If you find a 4GB that can be unlocked, you'll get a full 8GB 480 card, with all its performance.

Btw, if someone is interested in how the unlocking is done, check this: http://www.gamersnexus.net/guides/2506-how-to-flash-rx-480-vbios-from-4gb-to-8gb

Pretty much what I expect when RL benchmarks start coming in, though bit surprised it beats 480 in Ashes, which leans heavily toward AMD. Also no Hitman, another title that favors AMD.

I think if nVidia is able to get enough of these cards into shops, 480 will have really hard time fighting it.

More news and rumors about the GTX 1060:

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB to feature 1152 CUDA cores?

http://videocardz.com/62182/nvidia-geforce-gtx-1060-3gb-to-feature-1152-cuda-cores
via: https://benchlife.info/nvidia-geforce-gtx-1060-3gb-spec-07122016/

As you might remember NVIDIA is planning Pascal GP106 GPU in two variants: GP106-400 and GP106-300. The first variant is already confirmed as GTX 1060 6GB GPU, and the latter is rumored as GTX 1060 3GB GPU. Apparently the difference is not just a cosmetic name modification. The 300 variant might feature CUDA cores (128 less) than 400 variant. At this point everyone should ask why not launch this model as GTX 1050, and to be honest I don’t understand why NVIDIA needs two cards named after GTX 1060..

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Rumors, Part 6: New cards, Pre-orders

http://videocardz.com/62127/nvidia-geforce-gtx-1060-available-for-preorder

ASUS GeForce GTX 1060 STRIX, Dual, Turbo

ASUS published a teaser few days ago. Assuming that this teaser is about GTX 1060, then we should expect at least 3 models form ASUS.

The reason why I’m posting this now, is that the actual picture of GTX 1060 STRIX packaging has emerged, so I’m guessing this is the first ASUS card we are going to see at launch.

ZOTAC GTX 1060 AMP! and MINI available for pre-order

SabrePC has two ZOTAC cards listed for preorder. AMP! costs 280 USD and the Mini is up for 260 USD.

(click the pics to go to SabrePC)

PNY GeForce GTX 1060

If someone was wondering how PNY GTX 1060 is going to look, then here it is.

The only reason to have two spec'ed 1060 is to have the regular and the Ti models. Otherwise it's ridiculous and prone to create confusion and angry consumers.

Well, that's the best they can do.

^Nah, most likely tomorrow.

Hope it delivers. Might try and nab one tomorrow.

Im curious to see if this is faster than a RX 480 when it comes to Vulkan & DirectX12.

The RX 480 performs close to GTX 980 in DX 12 games, and that's the target performance of the GTX 1060. My guess is that they'll be roughly on par.

For more reviews, check out this videocardz link, with reviews in many languages: http://videocardz.com/62364/nvidia-geforce-gtx-1060-reviews

It's a very good card, delivering close to 980 performance in many games.