REFURBISHED PALIT NEB1060U15J9-1045D PALIT GTX1060 GAMINGPRO OC+ 6GB GDDR5X DVI,3XDP,HDMI VGA

NVIDIA's add-in board (AIB) partners are starting to update their product catalogs with updated GeForce GTX 1060 graphics cards sporting faster GDDR5X memory.

Palit is the latest to jump on the bandwagon with its GeForce GTX 1060 GamingPro OC+ (NEB1060U15J9-1045D), and unlike the Gigabyte card we spotted yesterday, Palit lists the memory speed and bandwidth. 

The specifications for Palit's overclocked card indicate a memory speed of 8.8Gbps and memory bandwidth of 211GB/s (rounded down from 211.2GB/s).

It's an interesting figure, and could indicate that the new cards are using 8Gbps GDDR5X chips, only overclocked in this case. That would be consistent with NVIDIA's own specs, which still list the memory speed at 8Gbps.

If that's the case, hopefully NVIDIA's other hardware partners will overclock the memory as well, otherwise the swap to GDDR5X memory is meaningless in terms of performance.

The assumed benefit is that these new variants would bump up the memory bandwidth, which can help with higher image quality settings and resolutions in games.