SteelSkin667

The memory bus width does have a very significant impact on memory performance, as a wider bus is often the main way to scale memory bandwidth up when GPUs in a given generation only get to use one or two types of memory.
 
Those figures are both gigabits per second, but the 14 Gb/s one is "per pin" (on a hypothetical 1-bit bus), or how many transfers the memory can do per second. If they used the same notation as DDR, it would be 14000 MT/s.
On a 256-bit data bus, 256 bits of data will be transferred at a time, which is why you then multiply that per-pin figure by the bus width to get the actual memory bandwidth of the graphics card.

They didn't do any math, Linus is just reading benchmark results.
 
The way you would calculate memory bandwidth is by multiplying its data rate (usually expressed in MT/s or in Gbps per pin) by its bus width (64 bits per channel in the case of DDR type memory).

I'm as frustrated as you about the current pricing, and I really think no one should give in to the current scalper prices as it only encourages them, but the solution to me is definitely to wait it out. I was planning on an upgrade, but scalpers can FOAD so I'll just wait as long as it'll take.
However, when you say that "t nothing new runs well on a 1060" that is blatantly false, it is still perfectly fine and will run everything decently well. You can and should wait it out with the rest of us.

Yes. I've seen some people online buy some P106s for really cheap (they were going for as low as $30 a pop just one year ago) to put them in folding rigs.

The CMP release makes way too much business sense for Nvidia to not have done it. At first I didn't take issue with it whatsoever, especially since it makes so much business sense when it comes to optimizing yields during a silicon shortage, but I didn't think of the e-waste problem. That is very unfortunate.
 
The driver-level mining restriction on the other hand I am not a fan of, and I didn't like it when they announced it either. Not only does it contribute to the e-waste problem, but I am a bit concerned that some various compute tasks might be flagged as mining, and the performance restriction kicks in. GPUs aren't only for gaming, and blockchain can be used outside of crypto mining.
 
When crypto inevitably crashes again, I might grab some of those discarded CMPs to run folding@home - a much better use of precious energy than advancing crypto-capitalism. Much like the P106s, they should become incredibly cheap by the point miners get rid of them.

Yeah, even though Nvidia say it's 'unhackable', it will be hacked eventually. Those hacked drivers and BIOS might get shared, but they probably won't get updated, meaning no game optimizations.

The CMP release makes way too much business sense for Nvidia to not have done it. At first I didn't take issue with it whatsoever, especially since it makes so much business sense when it comes to optimizing yields during a silicon shortage, but I didn't think of the e-waste problem. That is very unfortunate.
 
The driver-level mining restriction on the other hand I am not a fan of, and I didn't like it when they announced it either. Not only does it contribute to the e-waste problem, but I am a bit concerned that some various compute tasks might be flagged as mining, and the performance restriction kicks in. GPUs aren't only for gaming, and blockchain can be used outside of crypto mining.
 
When crypto inevitably crashes again, I might grab some of those discarded CMPs to run folding@home - a much better use of precious energy than advancing crypto-capitalism. Much like the P106s, they should become incredibly cheap by the point miners get rid of them.

I'm as frustrated as you about the current pricing, and I really think no one should give in to the current scalper prices as it only encourages them, but the solution to me is definitely to wait it out. I was planning on an upgrade, but scalpers can FOAD so I'll just wait as long as it'll take.
However, when you say that "t nothing new runs well on a 1060" that is blatantly false, it is still perfectly fine and will run everything decently well. You can and should wait it out with the rest of us.

Yeah, even though Nvidia say it's 'unhackable', it will be hacked eventually. Those hacked drivers and BIOS might get shared, but they probably won't get updated, meaning no game optimizations.

The CMP release makes way too much business sense for Nvidia to not have done it. At first I didn't take issue with it whatsoever, especially since it makes so much business sense when it comes to optimizing yields during a silicon shortage, but I didn't think of the e-waste problem. That is very unfortunate.
 
The driver-level mining restriction on the other hand I am not a fan of, and I didn't like it when they announced it either. Not only does it contribute to the e-waste problem, but I am a bit concerned that some various compute tasks might be flagged as mining, and the performance restriction kicks in. GPUs aren't only for gaming, and blockchain can be used outside of crypto mining.
 
When crypto inevitably crashes again, I might grab some of those discarded CMPs to run folding@home - a much better use of precious energy than advancing crypto-capitalism. Much like the P106s, they should become incredibly cheap by the point miners get rid of them.