Is the GTX 1060 3gb still worth getting?
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TechyInAZ
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3GB is good, however you really should get the 6GB if you can. 3GB of vram, even at 1080P won't be enough for games coming out in the near future.
dontlistentome
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The 1060 3gb will work for games at 1080p, and is far superior to the 750 Ti. The 3gb vs 6gb means on some games you'll have to sacrifice a bit on the settings. Since you've been gaming all this time on a 750 Ti, I think it's still a worthwhile upgrade.
This assumes the rest of your system, like the CPU, is enough for 1080p gaming as well.
This assumes the rest of your system, like the CPU, is enough for 1080p gaming as well.
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The 3GB 1060 is a different card than the 6GB. It has cut CUDA cores. It's more in line with the performance of a GTX 970. If you are in the US, you will overpay for a GTX 1060. The Ethereum miners are buying even those for up to a $150 premium in price at resellers like NewEgg. Bad time for a GPU upgrade if you are in the US. Good time if you are looking to sell your 9xx series Nvidia or RX 4xx series GPUs as those values have shot up. For example, on eBay two months ago a GTX 980 was selling for $190-$210. Now they are going for $300 PLUS.
Kunra Zether
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Yea I was going to say don't rule out getting a good second hand card since the gpus pretty much from the rx580 and 1060 up are all over price right now. But yes the 1060 3gb would be a good card to upgrade to but the rx580 4gb is also close in price when in normal market conditions so I would go with that one instead myself.
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The 1060 is 5 ranks higher on the GPU Hierarchy list when compared to the GTX 750 Ti. The 1060 3GB would offer near the same performance of the 1060 6GB, but Nvidia shut off 128 cuda cores or 1 SM. They did this so it wouldn't perform at 1080p. You can watch the video at the bottom.
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gpu-hierarchy,4388.html
"Imagine this with one less SM, and you've got the GTX 1060 3GB."
"Is the GTX 1060 6GB Worth It?
This comes down to a question of whether the difference is ever noticeable in gameplay, and if it's worth the $50 extra for the 6GB card. We know that overclocking would scale performance mostly linearly, especially shown by testing the cards clock-for-clock, and that the performance deltas can be mapped to the reduction in CUDA cores and VRAM. For most games, the difference is about 6 to 7%, but we're seeing huge swings in some cases. Black Ops III posts a 10% performance change going from the 6GB card to the 3GB card ($200), Shadow of Mordor shows about a 14% change, and Doom is nearly 0 with OpenGL, but posts massive, 27% differences with Vulkan.
And then there's Mirror's Edge Catalyst, where we saw a performance drop from 58.3FPS AVG / 39.3FPS 0.1% low with the 6GB card, the 3GB model falling at 33FPS AVG / 22.7FPS 0.1% low. That pushes us below the “playable” threshold for Mirror's Edge Catalyst at Hyper, which wasn't the case for the 1060 6GB unit. A purchaser of the 3GB card would have to drop settings to Ultra (1080p) to remain playable on the unit, whereas the 6GB owner could play at Hyper"
If you are gaming at 1080p the 3GB it will do fine. The 6GB is a little better in some games.
http://www.gamersnexus.net/hwreviews/2604-gtx-1060-3gb-vs-6gb-benchmark-review?showall=1
The Video
https://youtu.be/zpb6qaH_saQ
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gpu-hierarchy,4388.html
"Imagine this with one less SM, and you've got the GTX 1060 3GB."
"Is the GTX 1060 6GB Worth It?
This comes down to a question of whether the difference is ever noticeable in gameplay, and if it's worth the $50 extra for the 6GB card. We know that overclocking would scale performance mostly linearly, especially shown by testing the cards clock-for-clock, and that the performance deltas can be mapped to the reduction in CUDA cores and VRAM. For most games, the difference is about 6 to 7%, but we're seeing huge swings in some cases. Black Ops III posts a 10% performance change going from the 6GB card to the 3GB card ($200), Shadow of Mordor shows about a 14% change, and Doom is nearly 0 with OpenGL, but posts massive, 27% differences with Vulkan.
And then there's Mirror's Edge Catalyst, where we saw a performance drop from 58.3FPS AVG / 39.3FPS 0.1% low with the 6GB card, the 3GB model falling at 33FPS AVG / 22.7FPS 0.1% low. That pushes us below the “playable” threshold for Mirror's Edge Catalyst at Hyper, which wasn't the case for the 1060 6GB unit. A purchaser of the 3GB card would have to drop settings to Ultra (1080p) to remain playable on the unit, whereas the 6GB owner could play at Hyper"
If you are gaming at 1080p the 3GB it will do fine. The 6GB is a little better in some games.
http://www.gamersnexus.net/hwreviews/2604-gtx-1060-3gb-vs-6gb-benchmark-review?showall=1
The Video
https://youtu.be/zpb6qaH_saQ
Kunra Zether
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Either way I think the cheapest 3gb card here in the US is $268 bucks insane. That card was just $170 is awhile back some of the 1060s are more then I payed for my 1070 strixs so crazy.
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goldstone77 :
The 1060 is 5 ranks higher on the GPU Hierarchy list when compared to the GTX 750 Ti. The 1060 3GB would offer near the same performance of the 1060 6GB, but Nvidia shut off 128 cuda cores or 1 SM. They did this so it wouldn't perform at 1080p. You can watch the video at the bottom.
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gpu-hierarchy,4388.html
"Imagine this with one less SM, and you've got the GTX 1060 3GB."
"Is the GTX 1060 6GB Worth It?
This comes down to a question of whether the difference is ever noticeable in gameplay, and if it's worth the $50 extra for the 6GB card. We know that overclocking would scale performance mostly linearly, especially shown by testing the cards clock-for-clock, and that the performance deltas can be mapped to the reduction in CUDA cores and VRAM. For most games, the difference is about 6 to 7%, but we're seeing huge swings in some cases. Black Ops III posts a 10% performance change going from the 6GB card to the 3GB card ($200), Shadow of Mordor shows about a 14% change, and Doom is nearly 0 with OpenGL, but posts massive, 27% differences with Vulkan.
And then there's Mirror's Edge Catalyst, where we saw a performance drop from 58.3FPS AVG / 39.3FPS 0.1% low with the 6GB card, the 3GB model falling at 33FPS AVG / 22.7FPS 0.1% low. That pushes us below the “playable” threshold for Mirror's Edge Catalyst at Hyper, which wasn't the case for the 1060 6GB unit. A purchaser of the 3GB card would have to drop settings to Ultra (1080p) to remain playable on the unit, whereas the 6GB owner could play at Hyper"
If you are gaming at 1080p the 3GB it will do fine. The 6GB is a little better in some games.
http://www.gamersnexus.net/hwreviews/2604-gtx-1060-3gb-vs-6gb-benchmark-review?showall=1
The Video
https://youtu.be/zpb6qaH_saQ
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gpu-hierarchy,4388.html
"Imagine this with one less SM, and you've got the GTX 1060 3GB."
"Is the GTX 1060 6GB Worth It?
This comes down to a question of whether the difference is ever noticeable in gameplay, and if it's worth the $50 extra for the 6GB card. We know that overclocking would scale performance mostly linearly, especially shown by testing the cards clock-for-clock, and that the performance deltas can be mapped to the reduction in CUDA cores and VRAM. For most games, the difference is about 6 to 7%, but we're seeing huge swings in some cases. Black Ops III posts a 10% performance change going from the 6GB card to the 3GB card ($200), Shadow of Mordor shows about a 14% change, and Doom is nearly 0 with OpenGL, but posts massive, 27% differences with Vulkan.
And then there's Mirror's Edge Catalyst, where we saw a performance drop from 58.3FPS AVG / 39.3FPS 0.1% low with the 6GB card, the 3GB model falling at 33FPS AVG / 22.7FPS 0.1% low. That pushes us below the “playable” threshold for Mirror's Edge Catalyst at Hyper, which wasn't the case for the 1060 6GB unit. A purchaser of the 3GB card would have to drop settings to Ultra (1080p) to remain playable on the unit, whereas the 6GB owner could play at Hyper"
If you are gaming at 1080p the 3GB it will do fine. The 6GB is a little better in some games.
http://www.gamersnexus.net/hwreviews/2604-gtx-1060-3gb-vs-6gb-benchmark-review?showall=1
The Video
https://youtu.be/zpb6qaH_saQ
thanks for the list, and ive watched a video that showed the same exact result for all those games too! haha
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