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nVidia GTX 1060 3GB - more than 3GB less

Another crappy move.

I also hate it when they stick slower memory on the lower memory versions, pretty poor form.
 
Pretty cheeky to drop 10% of the CUDA cores and still call it a 1060. I can't really see any reason for it not to be the 1050. My guess is it will end up £200ish on the shelves, maybe one at £190 which really wouldn't leave anywhere to go in the product stack to deal with the £100ish market the 750/950/RX460 are in.

I would be interested to see how much the performance drops vs the 1060 6gb.
 
I dont think it should have been called a 1060, there will be a lot of customers caught out not realising its more then just half the memory different.

Crappy move imo from Nvidia in this case
 
Large enough profit margin on the 1060 to gimp some and put up at a lower price to fish in AMDs pool.

Amusing comparison to AMDs "4GB" 480 cards it put out to cover the lower price point which people immediately unlocked to full 8GB cards.

I can't see NVIDIA letting any pennies escape when they do it.
 
You're not getting a 1060, its what the 670 is to the 680, 970 is to the 980, 290 is to the 290X, and so on so yes it is deceptive.

It should be called the 1050TI to indicate the fact that it has fewer cores and slower memory.
 
To be honest the people that will be caught out by this, wont really care or notice it anyway and is it really that much different than giving 4Gb and 8GB versions of cards different memory speeds, maybe they will do that as well, who knows.

Maybe they could have called it something different to make things clearer, but again most of the people buying this wont know or even care about this small difference.
 
Scougar said:
Another crappy move.

I also hate it when they stick slower memory on the lower memory versions, pretty poor form.
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AMD put slower memory on the 4GB RX480?


It is not that different to having cards with different clock speeds having the same name.
Anyway, i do think the regular 1060 could have been called the 1060Ti to ensure there is a clear difference but at the end of the day I don't think it matter much as long as it is priced right.
 
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bru said:
To be honest the people that will be caught out by this, wont really care or notice it anyway and is it really that much different than giving 4Gb and 8GB versions of cards different memory speeds, maybe they will do that as well, who knows.

Maybe they could have called it something different to make things clearer, but again most of the people buying this wont know or even care about this small difference.
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Memory speed can be adjusted so is pretty much irrelevant.

You can't do anything about cores being disabled.
 
Hotwired said:
Memory speed can be adjusted so is pretty much irrelevant.

You can't do anything about cores being disabled.
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You can increase the clock speed negating the performance difference. All the same thing. The only thing that matters is out of the box performance, as soon as you start having to overclock memory or clock speeds to get the same performance it is all awash. Plus it isn't clear if it wont be possible to unlock the cores anyway, maybe there will be a special bios etc (unlikely).


At the end of the day it all boils down to performance, a consumer should never care about internal architectural differences. If the clock speeds were lowered 10% and all cores enabled would that some how be a better GPU (especially if Nvidia did some binning so the lowered clocked GP106 cores that didn't make the 76GB grade made the 4GB card etc.)? Logically not



The most important thing is Nvidia makes it clear in marketing materials.
 
Its almost as if they are pushing back against the system.

They tried to sue Samsung and Qualcomm for IP infringement and lost, Samsung counter claimed for IP infringement and won <lol

A bunch of consumers hired a Law Firm to successfully sue Nvidia over the GTX 970 Ram-Gate saga.

Nvidia have been burnt a lot lately, all for their own actions and despite this they are still experimenting with what controversial actions they can get away with.
 
RavenXXX2 said:
Yes, and?
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Didn't you know that you can't post something that could be seen as a balanced view, you've got to be taking sides? :D

No idea why they think it should have the same designation, seems stupid as it's a cut-down version of the chip which is exactly what the normal basis for different designations is for. I also agree slower RAM is annoying given you generally see "GPU - Memory capacity" as the advertised thing, it'd be reasonable to assume that apart from the capacity there was no difference. Sure, anyone into hardware will spot the difference but you shouldn't need to be into hardware to get what you expect.
 
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