Laptop Media reveals a Legion Y530 notebook with a GTX 1160
Laptop Media reveals a Legion Y530 notebook with a GTX 1160
Aside from the GPU’s name, not much is known about the GTX 1160, though Laptop Media has listed the GPU with a 6GB frame buffer, making it appear to be a direct replacement for Nvidia’s GTX 1060. This VRAM specification also seems to indicate that Nvidia doesn’t plan to increase the VRAM capacities of their 11-series of graphics cards significantly, which makes sense as the frame buffer on modern 6+GB graphics cards is often criminally underutilised.
Other specifications for Lenovo’s Legion Y530 include Intel’s i7 8750H processor, a full HD 144Hz IPS display, 16GB of DDR4 2666MHz memory, 256GB of NVMe SSD storage and a 2TB HDD. The notebook is also expected to weigh 2.3kg.
(Image from Laptop Media)
Some websites have speculated that Nvidia plans to double the frame buffer sizes of their next-generation 11-series of graphics cards, though we see this as unlikely, given that this would deliver a GTX 1060 replacement with 12GB of VRM. 12GB of VRAM is stupidly high for modern games, especially for a mid-range graphics card, and would only serve to make next-generation graphics cards more expensive. We don’t think that this 6GB GTX 1160 is a 3GB GTX 1060 replacement.
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