nVidia has a GTX1060 with only 3GB of VRAM, but that's not all

[STRMfrmXMN]

11 minutes ago, Bleedingyamato said:

Isn't that kind of pointless though?

 

I mean if someone wants a higher performing card they'd get better performance out of the next card up vs a high factory overclocked lesser card wouldn't they?

Well the gap between a 650ti and a 660 was fairly substantial so a 650ti Boost made sense to many.

[arnavvr]

On 8/13/2016 at 10:02 AM, MageTank said:

You know, I was just trying to explain Thermal Runaway to someone on this forum for the past 2 days now, and I still don't think it registered with them. 

 

On a side note: your analogy would mean Ubisoft is responsible for pushing PC hardware advancement forward. 

 

Great. You went and got my hopes up, just to destroy them. Was really hoping for a 6GB GK110B on the cheap x.x

 

Titan Black is a 780Ti with 6GB of RAM.

[zMeul]

what else influences VRAM usage? Anti Aliasing

 

 

between no AA and SMAA or FXAA there is a minimum perf difference

I stopped at 2x SMAA because there it hit 60FPS avg

[arnavvr]

3GB is perfectly fine at 1080p as long as you don't use AA, it's 1440p and surround where it starts to struggle.

[Bleedingyamato]

1 hour ago, STRMfrmXMN said:

Well the gap between a 650ti and a 660 was fairly substantial so a 650ti Boost made sense to many.

I suppose but different cards are supposed to hwve gaps between them in performance.  A decent gap just help justify one card or the other.  

Want passable performance at lower price?  Get card A.  

Want higher performance and pay for it?  Get card B.  

 

My point is if there's too small a gap between cards then you'll have lots of people saying "well why should I pay $50-$100 more for maybe 10% better performance?" and they'll just buy the cheaper card and stick with that. 

[FPS-Russia]

Do you no see in windows avavilable graphics memory is lot higher than physical Vram?

[FPS-Russia]

I run GTA V on max and use 7.2GB.

 

You can only play with 8GB Vram my numbers say so.

[FPS-Russia]

It is real i game at 2560 x 1440.

Game say only 4GB but use 7.2.

You all DOOM and will face Chernobyl with less ram.

[Brucifer]

On 8/13/2016 at 11:44 AM, zMeul said:

and it begs the question, why didn't nVidia named the 6BG variant GTX 1060Ti and keep the 3GB as just GTX 1060

or, name the 3GB variant as GTX 1050 ?!

this naming scheme and the CUDA core difference between them will create confusion

They pulled a similar (?) move on the GT 730 by having both 394 and 96 CUDA core variants, the latter of which bests only the GT 705 if you're just looking at the # of cores.

[Misanthrope]

6 hours ago, DarkBlade2117 said:

No idea why I am ranting............................................... ;/

Me neither: I can't understand why you don't realize you're the rare exception and not the rule.

[Coaxialgamer]

On 8/13/2016 at 6:33 PM, CTR640 said:

Then I'll challenge you to cripple a Titan X Pascal, cripple it so hard enough, this GPU will explode like a bomb.

The game to use to cripple it:

  Reveal hidden contents

 

32x SSA ?

[Coaxialgamer]

On 8/13/2016 at 7:02 PM, MageTank said:

 

Great. You went and got my hopes up, just to destroy them. Was really hoping for a 6GB GK110B on the cheap x.x

https://www.amazon.com/EVGA-GeForce-384-Bit-Graphics-06G-P4-3787-KR/dp/B00K699CRW

[MageTank]

Just now, Coaxialgamer said:

https://www.amazon.com/EVGA-GeForce-384-Bit-Graphics-06G-P4-3787-KR/dp/B00K699CRW

On 8/13/2016 at 0:49 PM, MageTank said:

I have never seen a 6GB 780 Ti. The only card i saw was the 780 (which had both 3gb and 6gb). If you know of any 780 Ti's that had 6GB, i'd love a link. Wouldn't mind finding a used one to toy around with, lol. 

May I ask why you showed me a card I already acknowledged exists? We are talking about 780 Ti's (GK110B) not GTX 780's. 

 

@arnavvr already showed the proper card (Titan Black, 6gb GK110B). I just assumed that Prysin knew of a legitimate GTX 780 Ti (with that exact nomenclature) that had a 6GB version. 

[Citadelen]

12 hours ago, Bleedingyamato said:

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The point being that the 3GB varient has a lower cuda core count than the 6GB varient, yet is still called the GTX 1060.

[Bleedingyamato]

38 minutes ago, Citadelen said:

The point being that the 3GB varient has a lower cuda core count than the 6GB varient, yet is still called the GTX 1060.

Ah.

I assume that's not normal for a lower VRAM variant of a card?

[Citadelen]

7 minutes ago, Bleedingyamato said:

-snip-

No it isn't, Nvidia is being purposefully deceptive.

[Bleedingyamato]

19 minutes ago, Citadelen said:

No it isn't, Nvidia is being purposefully deceptive.

I do not like that..  ?

[DarkBlade2117]

16 hours ago, Noctus said:

So basically you're saying @DarkBlade2117's point is correct and @zMeul is wrong and 3gb cards are still viable?

Meh, yes and no.

I gamed on a 750Ti not to long ago, all of Q4 2015 and Q1 of 2016, I play roughly the same games now but at the time I had a fucking A6-3650, which, I tortured.

It did well, 1080p 45-60FPS Med-High settings. You just had to know what you could turn down, I had Grass in GTA V low, as to me it doesn't make much of a difference and same with Particles, water, textures I kept at High, AA was off and I was happy with 45-60 FPS, any dips into the 30's was not because of my GPU either, my CPU/APU was super shitty. Shadow of Mordor is another, I actually ran that better than GTA V because it isn't as CPU dependent, Medium settings on everything got me 60+ FPS at all times. 

3GB is viable for 1080p, it'll do the job just fine and people will be happy with it, the ONLY reason people think they are not viable is actually, because of a recent video ( recent, I don't know, maybe a month or 2 ago ) about CPU Coolers where he said the only reason we know our CPU is getting hot, is because we have some program up telling us it is hot, people have no idea if they are maxing out VRAM until they measure it. zMuel has me blocked ( go figures ) so he won't see this anyways probably, but I give him props for bashing nvidia ( another shocker ), the only reason you have to measure if VRAM is the bottleneck, is if you are not happy with the FPS you are getting.

[Bittenfleax]

18 hours ago, DarkBlade2117 said:

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I agree.

 

I am still running a 2GB GTX 680. It runs every game I throw at it. Arma 3, GTA 5 etc. And yeah I have to have details on medium but like you said, if you know what to change, most settings can be on high apart from the ones you know take up VRAM.