Does GDDR matter?

[Krystof203PhoneAccc]

Hello, I have GTX 1050 OC GDDR5 for a longer time now, and I want to buy new GPU, I saw a GTX 1660 SUPER for crazy good deal but it turns out it is GDDR6, will it take effect on my system when swapping Gens? (PC used for swap is HP COMPAQ ELITE 8300)

[Eigenvektor]

The rest of your system doesn't care about what type of VRAM your GPU has. The VRAM is only used by the GPU itself. GDDR6 is simply faster than GDDR5, that's all there is to it.

[Tan3l6]

1660S is better, but in what kind of form factor is your PC

 

1)

 

OR

 

2) 

[Krystof203PhoneAccc]

10 minutes ago, Tan3l6 said:

1660S is better, but in what kind of form factor is your PC

 

1)

 

OR

 

2) 

2

[Krystof203PhoneAccc]

12 minutes ago, Eigenvektor said:

The rest of your system doesn't care about what type of VRAM your GPU has. The VRAM is only used by the GPU itself. GDDR6 is simply faster than GDDR5, that's all there is to it.

Alright thanks really helpful

[Krystof203PhoneAccc]

19 minutes ago, Eigenvektor said:

The rest of your system doesn't care about what type of VRAM your GPU has. The VRAM is only used by the GPU itself. GDDR6 is simply faster than GDDR5, that's all there is to it.

One more question, Is 1660 same gen as 1050? (This time gens are meant as 20, 30 ect.

Edited July 2, 2023 by Krystof203PhoneAccc

[Crunchy Dragon]

1 minute ago, Krystof203PhoneAccc said:

One more question, Is 1660 same gen as 1050?

No, it's still the same Turing architecture found on the RTX 20-series cards. It's a lower end 20-series card that doesn't support RTX.

[Krystof203PhoneAccc]

2 minutes ago, Crunchy Dragon said:

No, it's still the same Turing architecture found on the RTX 20-series cards. It's a lower end 20-series card that doesn't support RTX.

So I will need to use DDU?

[Crunchy Dragon]

1 minute ago, Krystof203PhoneAccc said:

So I will need to use DDU?

Nvidia's GeForce drivers tend to work across all GPUs they support, but I still DDU whenever I swap cards just to be safe.

[Krystof203PhoneAccc]

Speaking of drivers, when doing clean install should I run Win in safe mode or it is fine to let it install in normal mode?

[Crunchy Dragon]

1 minute ago, Krystof203PhoneAccc said:

Speaking of drivers, when doing clean install should I run Win in safe mode or it is fine to let it install in normal mode?

Usually I run DDU in Safe Mode, but I know people who don't and they have no issues.

 

There's no point to installing drivers inside Safe Mode since Safe Mode won't actually load them. Safe Mode only loads the basic drivers built into Windows that allow your PC to function.

[Vishera]

8 minutes ago, Crunchy Dragon said:

It's a lower end 20-series card that doesn't support RTX.

Me using RTX in Control on a GTX 1660 (1080p,Max settings - RTX MEDIUM):

 

1080p,Max settings - RTX OFF:

[Eigenvektor]

43 minutes ago, Krystof203PhoneAccc said:

One more question, Is 1660 same gen as 1050? (This time gens are meant as 20, 30 ect.

It's usually referred to as a 16-series card, as opposed to 10-series for the 1050 and 20-series for e.g. the 2060. It's basically a 20-series card, but lacks the RT cores that were added to the RTX 20xx cards (i.e. no official hardware support for ray tracing)

[LOST TALE]

22 hours ago, Vishera said:

Me using RTX in Control on a GTX 1660 (1080p,Max settings - RTX MEDIUM):

 

1080p,Max settings - RTX OFF:

I bet the same reflection could be had with RT off and if you swapped the images, people would be fooled. Devs don't need RT for excellent reflections 99% of the time.

[Sir Beregond]

16-series existed concurrently with 20-series. Both are the Turing architecture and both succeed the 10-series, but the 16-series lacks any RTX features such as RT and Tensor cores.

 

As for the memory subsystem, GDDR6 is simply the next version of GDDR from GDDR5/5X of the 10-series and as previously mentioned is entirely contained within the card so you don't need to worry about memory compatibility with your system like you would with traditional memory.