Laptop 1060 3GB vs 6GB

[huntkil]

How does 1060 3GB stack against 6GB in laptop ? Does more VRAM amount to more performance/price ratio ? For how does 1060 3GB stack against say 1050ti 8gb.

[Princess Luna]

Is it 1080p?

[huntkil]

1 minute ago, Princess Cadence said:

Is it 1080p?

yup

[Damascus]

3 hours ago, huntkil said:

1050ti 8gb

Doesn't exist

 

3 hours ago, huntkil said:

How does 1060 3GB stack against 6GB in laptop

For a laptop both gpus are equally powerful but one will have more Vram, what's the price difference?

[huntkil]

1 minute ago, Damascus said:

Doesn't exist

 

For a laptop both gpus are equally powerful but one will have more Vram, what's the price difference?

oops then 1050ti 4GB

 

ONE laptop is MSI while other is Asus ... specs are almost same with 10603/6 GB being main difference and price difference of $249

[Princess Luna]

1 minute ago, huntkil said:

yup

Then 3gb is really all you need for gaming, the 1060 3gb is always faster than the 1050 Ti could it have 3294723865398472398gb of VRAM available.

 

As long as your application does not require more than 3gb you'll be fine and have in mind require is something, reserve is another, a lot of people say 3gb is not enough because they see their 8gb card using around 5gb of vram... thing is the system will always use more and reserve more accordingly to what you have while adjust itself to use as little as required keeping things working right when you have less.

 

Always looks for the processing chip of the card, 1050 Ti , 1060, 1070 etc those are the important thing for raw gain in performance.

[huntkil]

2 minutes ago, Princess Cadence said:

Then 3gb is really all you need for gaming, the 1060 3gb is always faster than the 1050 Ti could it have 3294723865398472398gb of VRAM available.

 

As long as your application does not require more than 3gb you'll be fine and have in mind require is something, reserve is another, a lot of people say 3gb is not enough because they see their 8gb card using around 5gb of vram... thing is the system will always use more and reserve more accordingly to what you have while adjust itself to use as little as required keeping things working right when you have less.

 

Always looks for the processing chip of the card, 1050 Ti , 1060, 1070 etc those are the important thing for raw gain in performance.

Thanks

[NowThatsDamp]

2 minutes ago, Damascus said:

Doesn't exist

 

For a laptop both gpus are equally powerful but one will have more Vram, what's the price difference?

Not entirely accurate...

The 3gb model has 1152 cuda cores, while the 6gb model has 1280 cuda cores.

I'm not the owner of a 3gb 1060, however I do have a 6gb 1060 and a 3gb 780ti.

I will tell you the 6gb 1060 and 780ti have about the same amount of processing power; however the 780ti is utterly crippled by it's 3gb of VRAM.

On my 780ti at 1080p, titles like ROTR, GTAV, and Witcher 3 and my heavily modded Skyrim all are completely unplayable at ultra settings. The frame rates are perfectly fine. But the stuttering due to the VRAM having to constantly swap with system memory is so bad it's nauseating.

Anyone who says 3gb is enough for 1080p AAA titles is misinformed. Get the 6gb. 3gb is not enough.

[Damascus]

2 hours ago, NowThatsDamp said:

Not entirely accurate...

The 3gb model has 1152 cuda cores, while the 6gb model has 1280 cuda cores.

Not on laptops, for the mobile version its the same amount of cuda cores.

3 hours ago, Damascus said:

For a laptop both gpus are equally powerful but one will have more Vram, what's the price difference?

 

[Princess Luna]

1 minute ago, NowThatsDamp said:

Anyone who says 3gb is enough for 1080p AAA titles is misinformed. Get the 6gb. 3gb is not enough.

Enough said

[huntkil]

But I am talking about mobile version ..... Discrete GPUs have enough material oth there bit mobile version .. naah not much 

[88pockets]

I would say always air on the side of future proofing any product that has very little ability to be upgraded.  3gb of vram was enough not too long ago, but it is already a scant amount of vram and that situation will only get worse as time goes on.  Remember the only upgrades you can possibly make to a laptop is its system ram and the Hard Drive or SSD.  

 

i.e. consider the 1060 6gb the minimum system requirements for something you plan to game on for a few years.  Gaming Laptops lose value faster than Charlie from Always Sunny's video camera loses battery life.

[NowThatsDamp]

11 minutes ago, Princess Cadence said:

Enough said

M8 look at the stuttering happening in PUBG and ROTR, especially the forest scene, where he's actually missing entire landscape features and has a floating fence because textures are stuck in system memory and not loading in.  It's not a frame rate issue. It's a memory swapping issue.