what actually makes the 3gb 1060 bad?

[StarShock]

Yeah, I think for the most part people just feel like the naming is a little bit naughty. Personally I think NVidia wanted to be able to say at launch that the 1060 is available for $200 (the same as the 4gb rx480 at launch) and wanted to say that the 1060 was faster than the RX 480. Both of which is true, just not with the same cards.

The whole thing smells like they were trying to trick people. Ultimately its a shame really, they could have just called it a 1060 and a 1060 ti. And they would have both been considered good worthwhile cards, instead of leaving a bad taste in peoples mouths.

 

[Psycho Sonny]

the naming thing is a bit confusing when they have 1050 and 1050ti, 1080 and 1080ti.

the 1070 stands alone. i'm thinking 1060 3GB's are 1060's that have failed testing so they restricted them and re-sold. the difference in power is minimal and 15% at best. I paid £165 for mine. I certainly don't feel like I have been duped. it plays PUBG at med-ultra settings flawlessly @ 1080p. for the money it's probably the best value card there is next to the 1050 series.

 

[r7slayer]

the most unoptimised game there is PUBG I run on medium textures on a 3GB 1060. I imagine if it was optimised I could go to high. it also lets me hit 90-110 fps consistently (much higher than 60hz).

it can play CSGO @ max settings on a 2K monitor at 300fps. 1060 3GB is a beast of a card for what it is. the 1060 6GB is only 15% more performance for 50% more money. also in the second hand market a 1060 6GB is easily £190 (double the cost of this 3GB 1060) and therefore your paying 100% more for 15% more performance.

you would have to be a moron to think a 1060 3GB for £100 isn't a steal. so long as it has warranty, etc I wouldn't worry about mining use. It's only been out for a few months not years. So long as it passes 2-3 3D mark runs it's good to go.

You cant optimise textures... i never said the performance 1060 is bad. I think people get confused about vram. If the 1060 had 1 TB of vram its not going to get faster unless its faster vram.
Textures can only get compressed and only gets made better by drivers with colour compression and frame buffer flushing.
So tomb raider on high could be perfectly playavle for a 1060 but the 3gb of vram would make it struggle due to the nature of how much memory the textures take.

 

[Psycho Sonny]

You cant optimise textures... i never said the performance 1060 is bad. I think people get confused about vram. If the 1060 had 1 TB of vram its not going to get faster unless its faster vram.
Textures can only get compressed and only gets made better by drivers with colour compression and frame buffer flushing.
So tomb raider on high could be perfectly playavle for a 1060 but the 3gb of vram would make it struggle due to the nature of how much memory the textures take.

regardless it's a beast of a card for 1080p gaming. the only thing you need to compromise on a bit is textures in the more demanding games. what do you expect for £100? people are expecting too much from this card.

 

[r7slayer]

regardless it's a beast of a card for 1080p gaming. the only thing you need to compromise on a bit is textures in the more demanding games. what do you expect for £100? people are expecting too much from this card.

Dude i aint saying.... its... a bad.... card.... And you just agreed with my last two posts so i don't get why you keep quoting me. Textures ain't what loads up the gpu but it loads up the memory buffer. Textures ain't what make games demanding. Go test the performance boost you get going from high to low textures on games. Bet its hardly anything.
3Gb is abit on the low side. Give the 1060 4GB of memory and it would have been just right for the grunt this card has.

 

[bru]

At a £100 it is a steal, second hand on an auction site, get it before it goes.

The naming thing is a little dodgy from NVidia, but as long as you think of it as a cut down card, then it is a good one. (at the right price of course)
Cut down cards are normally only just slower than the full varieties, by varying degrees and I don't think the 1060 3GB is any different. think of the 970 or even the Vega 56, both cut down and one is a page in history and the other looking to be the best thing AMD have released for many a year.
Its all down to price, and second hand at a £100 it is a steal.