v-ram Does V-RAM directly influence performance?

[Finners369]

Does V-RAM affect performance so 1060 6Gb vs 1060 3Gb?

[DodoDodo123]

The 1060 with 6gb is better, because of the more V-RAM it has, and, yes, VRAM does influence performance in some way, not totally.

[AvocadosGuac]

the 1060 6GB has more cuda cores then the 3GB model. In short, Yes it does.

[menchx]

You should get the 6GB version. because even though Nvidia advertises them as the same chip, the chip in the 6GB version is actually stronger ( I believe it has more CUDA cores, or it's just faster). Extra VRAM doesn't hurt either. You can probably find videos about this over on Youtube.

[GrockleTD]

2 hours ago, menchx said:

You should get the 6GB version. because even though Nvidia advertises them as the same chip, the chip in the 6GB version is actually stronger ( I believe it has more CUDA cores, or it's just faster). Extra VRAM doesn't hurt either. You can probably find videos about this over on Youtube.

 

2 hours ago, Jrock said:

the 1060 6GB has more cuda cores then the 3GB model. In short, Yes it does.

 

2 hours ago, Hunter_Finlay said:

Does V-RAM affect performance so 1060 6Gb vs 1060 3Gb?

 

2 hours ago, DodoDodo123 said:

The 1060 with 6gb is better, because of the more V-RAM it has, and, yes, VRAM does influence performance in some way, not totally.

the primary difference between the 3 GB and 6GB is not only VRAM amount, but also the memory in the 6GB version is of a much higher quality and speed, which is another part of the performance increase.

[RollinLower]

basically, the 1060 3Gb version is what was supposed to be the 1050Ti. but Nvidia decided to screw the consumers over by naming 2 very different products the same.

the 1060 6GB is better in every way. more cores, more VRAM and better VRAM.

 

on to the OP tough:

no, VRAM does not directly influence performance per-se.

sure, if you have too little VRAM available you would see performance decrease, tough the heavy lifting is done by the GPU chip itself.

so you could have 800GB of VRAM, tough if the chip itself doesn's stack up the high amount of available VRAM doesn;t increase the performance.

[Jurrunio]

It does. Is it a deal breaker though depends on the actual price. Nothing's a bad product, but a bad price.

13 minutes ago, Grockle88 said:

but also the memory in the 6GB version is of a much higher quality and speed, which is another part of the performance increase.

only true you're talking about the 9Gbps version specifically. 8Gbps version of the 6GB has the same memory bandwidth and memory clock speed as the 3GB, which leads to equal transfer rate and latency.

 

9 minutes ago, RollinLower said:

basically, the 1060 3Gb version is what was supposed to be the 1050Ti. but Nvidia decided to screw the consumers over by naming 2 very different products the same.

If that's the case the 1060 6gb will be way too close to the '1050ti', just like the 1080 and 1070ti. It's also of tradition for the x50ti to use the same core as the x50 cards

[pas008]

1 hour ago, RollinLower said:

basically, the 1060 3Gb version is what was supposed to be the 1050Ti. but Nvidia decided to screw the consumers over by naming 2 very different products the same.

the 1060 6GB is better in every way. more cores, more VRAM and better VRAM.

 

on to the OP tough:

no, VRAM does not directly influence performance per-se.

sure, if you have too little VRAM available you would see performance decrease, tough the heavy lifting is done by the GPU chip itself.

so you could have 800GB of VRAM, tough if the chip itself doesn's stack up the high amount of available VRAM doesn;t increase the performance.

screw consumers from a small percentage gap

fyi gtx 260 and 560ti had 2 different core versions too

[Biggerboot]

The amount of VRAM wouldn't affect your gaming performance if, in theory, the game is only demanding less than what the card provides.  It's a very yes or no sort of thing.

For example, a 4gb RX 580 vs 8gb RX 580 will perform just about identical when a game call for less than 4gb of vRAM.  However, in other situations, vRAM bottleneck can have really nasty effects on your performance when it does happen, actually locking up your game.  When this happens, it's usually best to lower your texture resolution.  Texture drawing is one of the common things that eat up vRAM.  Newer game engines are also favoring more of it, and newer cards also may have more efficient vRAM than older ones.

In the case of the GTX 1060, the 3gb and 6gb versions have differences aside from the vRAM.  It's just a confusing naming convention.