NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 to feature 6GB 192-bit memory?

Kaapstad · 12 Jun 2016 at 13:24

http://videocardz.com/61002/nvidia-geforce-gtx-1060-to-feature-6gb-192-bit-memory

Quartz · 12 Jun 2016 at 15:08

I would hope that the GTX1060 ships with 8 GB VRAM.

Telecaster · 12 Jun 2016 at 17:18

Quartz said:
I would hope that the GTX1060 ships with 8 GB VRAM.

Dream on.

FrozenShivers · 12 Jun 2016 at 17:19

Quartz said:
I would hope that the GTX1060 ships with 8 GB VRAM.

It will be redundant in a lower end card surely?

Doogles · 12 Jun 2016 at 17:22

FrozenShivers said:
It will be redundant in a lower end card surely?

Yeah I'd say 4GB is enough, when playing at 1440p I never go over 3.5GB. I'd go with 6GB on the 1070.

r7slayer · 12 Jun 2016 at 17:24

6gb will be more than enough on the 1060!

RavenXXX2 · 12 Jun 2016 at 17:24

FrozenShivers said:
It will be redundant in a lower end card surely?

Tell that to the 970 playing mirrors edge maxed out. Games are only going to get more memory intensive.

Telecaster · 12 Jun 2016 at 17:52

Doogles said:
Yeah I'd say 4GB is enough, when playing at 1440p I never go over 3.5GB. I'd go with 6GB on the 1070.

Really? what with, mine craft or something? I regularly see over 5.5gb usage @ 1440p.

Sampsy · 12 Jun 2016 at 18:26

Yeah I'm sure it's a chicken or the egg thing. Now that graphics cards are coming with more VRAM, games will start to use more VRAM.

Quartz · 12 Jun 2016 at 20:20

Sampsy said:
Yeah I'm sure it's a chicken or the egg thing. Now that graphics cards are coming with more VRAM, games will start to use more VRAM.

This. Games will assume 8 GB VRAM.

ShakeNBake · 12 Jun 2016 at 20:40

well, GTX1060 not that much better than GTX970, GTX1070 miles too expensive, looks like I'm sticking with my trusty GTX970 @ 1080p/144Hz for a good while yet...

I'll get a 1070 when the price comes down and upgrade to 1440p - if price doesn't come down, might as well just wait til 4k@60fps becomes possible.

FrozenShivers · 12 Jun 2016 at 21:18

RavenXXX2 said:
Tell that to the 970 playing mirrors edge maxed out. Games are only going to get more memory intensive.

Right, but my point is that if it's paired to a GPU without enough computational power in the first place.....you get my drift. Depends on how powerful the 1060 ends up I guess....

Seanspeed · 12 Jun 2016 at 21:27

RavenXXX2 said:
Tell that to the 970 playing mirrors edge maxed out. Games are only going to get more memory intensive.

Games are going to get more demanding in general. Which means that users with this class of card will have to be turning down settings anyways. As people in this class already do...

D1craig · 12 Jun 2016 at 22:06

Why are people saying 6gb will be enough? 8gb is so inexpensive it has to be some sort of sales ploy from nvidia. If you need more ram get the mortgageable 1070.

Also what we guna guess at price? Msrp250 actual price 300-400?

bru · 12 Jun 2016 at 22:39

So 4GB is no longer enough

!!Newsflash AMD delay RX480 for another month!!

Oh in that case 4Gb is still pleanty then.

Telecaster · 12 Jun 2016 at 22:46

At 1080p I'd say yes, 4Gb is about enough, which is what the 480 is aimed at is it not?

Rannoch · 12 Jun 2016 at 22:52

D1craig said:
Why are people saying 6gb will be enough? 8gb is so inexpensive it has to be some sort of sales ploy from nvidia. If you need more ram get the mortgageable 1070.

Also what we guna guess at price? Msrp250 actual price 300-400?

A 1070 is £350

andybird123 · 13 Jun 2016 at 07:43

D1craig said:
Why are people saying 6gb will be enough? 8gb is so inexpensive it has to be some sort of sales ploy from nvidia. If you need more ram get the mortgageable 1070.

Also what we guna guess at price? Msrp250 actual price 300-400?

192bit bus, it could be 3 or 6, no chance they would have gone with 12

h4rm0ny · 13 Jun 2016 at 08:51

Telecaster said:
Really? what with, mine craft or something? I regularly see over 5.5gb usage @ 1440p.

How can you tell it's actually needed?

A card fills up its RAM as needed and it doesn't prematurely release that memory until it needs it. Need texture X ? Load it up. Later you don't need texture X but it's still in RAM and showing up as "used". It doesn't waste time emptying RAM for no gain and at some risk (from its point of view) just to make a game look good in a monitoring utility.

So you may well see your card have over 5.5GB in use, but that doesn't inherently translate into it performing any worse than if you only had 4GB.

CAT-THE-FIFTH · 13 Jun 2016 at 08:54

bru said:
So 4GB is no longer enough

!!Newsflash AMD delay RX480 for another month!!

Oh in that case 4Gb is still pleanty then.

Another month?

They said months ago the middle of the year and in time for back to school.

June seems like no delay to me?