GTX 1080 with 4 GB Vram, NANI??!!?

[Goliath_1911]

Hey all, my friend was looking for a upgrade to his gpu, and was looking around for new or used cards, he found a local seller of a GTX 1080 with a suitable price, tho it was 4GB, after asking me about it , i told him NOPE, forget about it , probably a fake GPU, it is nonesense to have a powerful GPU, limited by 4GB VRAM, which his 1060 has 2 GB more 

 

Then again , I`ve read before that it can be a issue, or a damaged VRAM, out of curiosity, does anyone know if there is such an issue, and as far as i can tell there is no 4gb 1080 , the owner provided a benchmark where the score and fps were within margin of error of a normal 1080 ,but what made it more suspicious is that the driver version is from april 11 2019, (as if the 4gb is not fishy enough). Also the owner said its a "mini" variant of a 1080

 

Anyway i told my friend to forget about it, it`s probably a scam, though am just curious about this if it could be a damaged 1080 , anyone who would share some knowledge is appreciated,or did i miss a useless 4gb 1080 release???? (which i doubt since i basically wank to tech news at this point ). 

[PlayStation 2]

If there's an applicable picture, you should show us. I guarantee he's trying to pass off a 970 or a 960 as a 1080.

[Helpful Tech Witch]

10 minutes ago, Goliath_1911 said:

i basically wank to tech news

i didn't need to know that.

[Mateyyy]

If it was a screenshot of Unigine Heaven or an older benchmark, then it's probably just the app not recognising more than 4GB of VRAM (for example, Heaven says my 2070S has 4GB of VRAM when it's actually got 8GB).

If it was a screenshot of GPU-Z saying the 1080 has got 4GB of VRAM, then yeah don't bother.

[Goliath_1911]

1 minute ago, Mateyyy said:

If it was a screenshot of Unigine Heaven or an older benchmark, then it's probably just the app not recognising more than 4GB of VRAM (for example, Heaven says my 2070S has 4GB of VRAM when it's actually got 8GB).

If it was a screenshot of GPU-Z saying the 1080 has got 4GB of VRAM, then yeah don't bother.

 

14 minutes ago, handymanshandle said:

If there's an applicable picture, you should show us. I guarantee he's trying to pass off a 970 or a 960 as a 1080.

 this is the image which got me wondering about the performance

[Aimi]

Some software simply has errors in reporting information. Speccy says that my 1080 Ti only has 3071 MB of VRAM, when it most certainly doesn't.

[Mateyyy]

7 minutes ago, Goliath_1911 said:

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 this is the image which got me wondering about the performance

Doing a quick search on GTX 1080 scores in Heaven, that looks in line.

I'd ask the seller for a GPU-Z screenshot, if that looks normal then I'd say it's good (if the price is also good, of course).

[Goliath_1911]

16 minutes ago, Mateyyy said:

Doing a quick search on GTX 1080 scores in Heaven, that looks in line.

I'd ask the seller for a GPU-Z screenshot, if that looks normal then I'd say it's good (if the price is also good, of course).

That is the thing, tho even before this screenshot the owner said its 4Gb, and it my friend said the box had 4gb written on it , i dont have the picture. Though he decided to stay away and avoid risking it on a possible scam, ez to get away with it in our country (so the moment he pays, poof nothing he can do lol)

[Goliath_1911]

35 minutes ago, TheTechWizardThatNeedsHelp said:

i didn't need to know that.

[Mick Naughty]

Dont see an issue here. Old program that didnt bother to change even with gpu's have more than 4 back then too.