6gb or 3gb

[GrandMushroom5]

Guys i need your help deciding which graphic card i should get for christmas for my first build. I don’t know if i should get the gtx 1060 6 or the 3 gb. The cheapest 6gb version on amazon is £50 more than the 3gb version that i have in my basket right now. The 6gb version also only has 1 fan which i think could create noise problem (i think). So is it worth the £50 extra for an extra 3gb of vram. I also plan to be gaming at 1080p high to ultra settings with a r5 1600. 

[ARikozuM]

I'd go for the 6GB since it is stronger than the 3GB, but don't get the 1050 Ti if you can only afford the 3GB. 

[iRileyx]

if you want 1080p high/ultra, the 6gb will definitely be the better option.

The 3gb variant, as well as having 3gb less vram, also has a less powerful chip.

[Projex]

2 minutes ago, GrandMushroom5 said:

Guys i need your help deciding which graphic card i should get for christmas for my first build. I don’t know if i should get the gtx 1060 6 or the 3 gb. The cheapest 6gb version on amazon is £50 more than the 3gb version that i have in my basket right now. The 6gb version also only has 1 fan which i think could create noise problem (i think). So is it worth the £50 extra for an extra 3gb of vram. I also plan to be gaming at 1080p high to ultra settings with a r5 1600. 

The 6gb, it will let you get higher fps with higher fps with data Vram

[xg32]

i'm the minority, if you are gonna save money and go for a mid range card, get the lowest one that can play 1080p comfortably, which is the 3gb, if you REALLY care about ultra, get the 6gb. (a 970 ~1060 3gb runs witcher 3 ultra no problems, but thats a 2 year old game)

[Nicnac]

The small price difference is definitely worth it because the 6gb version also has a small core bump. 

On the other side if you need to save money the 1050 ti is also a very solid card. It can run all games on very high/ultra right now it's just not as future-proof as a 1060 might be. But then again, who knows about the future really...

 

None of these cards is bad ...

[spiralfuzion]

6GB it's worth it my dude. 

[DrMacintosh]

Neither, get an RX 580

[JoostinOnline]

4 minutes ago, Nicnac said:

The small price difference is definitely worth it because the 6gb version also has a small core bump. 

This.   The 6GB version has 10% more CUDA cores.  A lot of people think it doesn't perform as well as the 6GB because of VRAM, but if you're playing a game on settings that use more than 3.5-4GB of VRAM, your performance will be dropping significantly on both.

1 minute ago, DrMacintosh said:

Neither, get an RX 580

But only if you can find one that is at a similar price to the 1060 6GB.  It's not that much better.

[GrandMushroom5]

The thing i’m worried about the 6gb one is that is a mini one that has only one fan and i’m worried that it could get really loud and my pc would be very close to me

[GrandMushroom5]

2 minutes ago, DrMacintosh said:

Neither, get an RX 580

Can’t rally find one at a good price 

[GrandMushroom5]

1 minute ago, JoostinOnline said:

This.   The 6GB version has 10% more CUDA cores.  A lot of people think it doesn't perform as well as the 6GB because of VRAM, but if you're playing a game on settings that use more than 3.5-4GB of VRAM, your performance will be dropping significantly on both.

I don’t know how vram limitation work but as i just watch a video from hardware unbox the 3gb one didn’t do that bad at even 4.5gb and i don’t know how this worked but it also did well with over 7gb of vram on tombraider but i drop alot in mirrors edges after 5gb was needed

[ARikozuM]

Just now, GrandMushroom5 said:

I don’t know how vram limitation work but as i just watch a video from hardware unbox the 3gb one didn’t do that bad at even 4.5gb and i don’t know how this worked but it also did well with over 7gb of vram on tombraider but i drop alot in mirrors edges after 5gb was needed

Nvidia added a piece to the driver allowing the 3GB to not go over a certain frame-rate, based on games in their GE library, so that even if VRAM skyrockets and could cause issues, the driver reduces the intensity of the VRAM issue. 

[CyberFern0]

16 minutes ago, GrandMushroom5 said:

Guys i need your help deciding which graphic card i should get for christmas for my first build. I don’t know if i should get the gtx 1060 6 or the 3 gb. The cheapest 6gb version on amazon is £50 more than the 3gb version that i have in my basket right now. The 6gb version also only has 1 fan which i think could create noise problem (i think). So is it worth the £50 extra for an extra 3gb of vram. I also plan to be gaming at 1080p high to ultra settings with a r5 1600. 

I’d go with the 1060 6GB for the extra frames.

[GrandMushroom5]

The mini ones are the only ones that the only one that’s is at a reasonable price for me to go over budget. 

[GrandMushroom5]

1 minute ago, ARikozuM said:

Nvidia added a piece to the driver allowing the 3GB to not go over a certain frame-rate, based on games in their GE library, so that even if VRAM skyrockets and could cause issues, the driver reduces the intensity of the VRAM issue. 

Good to know and what does GE stands for?

[ARikozuM]

1 minute ago, GrandMushroom5 said:

Good to know and what does GE stands for?

Runescape: Grand Exchange

Nvidia: Geforce Experience

Everything else: General Electric