Is there a big difference between 3gb 1060 vs 6gb 1060?
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TechyInAZ
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You'll run out of vram really quick with the 3GB 1060, max resolution you should use on that 1060 is 1080P or your guaranteed to have problems in today's titles.
The 6GB can stretch it's legs since it has enough vram to prevent a memory bottleneck.
The 6GB can stretch it's legs since it has enough vram to prevent a memory bottleneck.
geofelt
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The vram you get in a card will be appropriate to the card.
VRAM has become a marketing issue.
My understanding is that vram is more of a performance issue than a functional issue.
A game needs to have most of the data in vram that it uses most of the time.
Somewhat like real ram.
If a game needs something not in vram, it needs to get it across the pcie boundary
hopefully from real ram and hopefully not from a hard drive.
It is not informative to know to what level the available vram is filled.
Possibly much of what is there is not needed.
What is not known is the rate of vram exchange.
Vram is managed by the Graphics card driver, and by the game. There may be differences in effectiveness between amd and nvidia cards.
And differences between games.
Here is an older performance test comparing 2gb with 4gb vram.
http://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/Video-Card-Performance-2GB-vs-4GB-Memory-154/
Spoiler... not a significant difference.
A more current set of tests shows the same results:
http://www.techspot.com/review/1114-vram-comparison-test/page5.html
And... no game maker wants to limit their market by
requiring huge amounts of vram. The vram you see will be appropriate to the particular card.
The big difference is that the GTX1060 6gb has more cuda cores.
VRAM has become a marketing issue.
My understanding is that vram is more of a performance issue than a functional issue.
A game needs to have most of the data in vram that it uses most of the time.
Somewhat like real ram.
If a game needs something not in vram, it needs to get it across the pcie boundary
hopefully from real ram and hopefully not from a hard drive.
It is not informative to know to what level the available vram is filled.
Possibly much of what is there is not needed.
What is not known is the rate of vram exchange.
Vram is managed by the Graphics card driver, and by the game. There may be differences in effectiveness between amd and nvidia cards.
And differences between games.
Here is an older performance test comparing 2gb with 4gb vram.
http://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/Video-Card-Performance-2GB-vs-4GB-Memory-154/
Spoiler... not a significant difference.
A more current set of tests shows the same results:
http://www.techspot.com/review/1114-vram-comparison-test/page5.html
And... no game maker wants to limit their market by
requiring huge amounts of vram. The vram you see will be appropriate to the particular card.
The big difference is that the GTX1060 6gb has more cuda cores.
TechyInAZ
Titan
You should be alright then. You'll still get a little bit of an FPS drop because the 3GB only has 1152 cuda cores vs the 6GB 1280 CUDA cores, and the fact that you'll be butting up against the 3GB barrier quite often.
So yeah the 3GB should be fine.
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