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Gtx 1060 3gb or 6gb

jblflip5
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I wanna build and don’t know which one to buy.

mostly doing stuff with blender, C4D and after effects

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Just now, rip said:

no gaming? 3 is enough

blender and C4D? I mean more cuda cores?????????????????????????

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Just now, DeezNoNos said:

blender and C4D? I mean more cuda cores?????????????????????????

and how much difference would it make? almost small enough to not know vs a high price increase over the 6gb model

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2 minutes ago, rip said:

and how much difference would it make? almost small enough to not know vs a high price increase over the 6gb model

that is a 0.5 teraflop difference which could show up. 

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I have a 1060 3GB and I tested the difference with a friend who has a 6GB model

 

Depending on the price difference, it could be more than enough to keep the 3GB. Unless you want to do anything over 1080P (or 1440P at slightly lowered settings) it should be fine, the performance difference is within the 10-15% range. But keep in mind that it -could- potentially require an upgrade earlier on, depending what is needed in the future.

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22 minutes ago, rip said:

and how much difference would it make? almost small enough to not know vs a high price increase over the 6gb model

the 6gb model has more cuda cores and more vram worth it for a bump in price for this scenario

 

 

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+30% more price for +10% more performance is not really advisible

 

by the time the extra VRAM comes in handy, better GPU's will be out anyway

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Just now, Aidanlockett1 said:

the 6gb model has more cuda cores and more vram worth it for a bump in price for this scenario

 

21 minutes ago, DeezNoNos said:

that is a 0.5 teraflop difference which could show up. 

This is Adobe Premiere for example. You can see when rendering 1080p video the difference between a 1070/1080 or a 1060 is almost non existent

 

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Blender takes 71 seconds to render best on 6GB and 72 on 3GB

 

http://blenchmark.com/gpu-benchmarks

 

Sure it's totally worth that extra 1 second when you are paying almost $70-$100 more

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