What do you think about this new GTX 1060 3gb?

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First, excuse for my poor English.
Now then, is it worth a pick for budget 1080p or 30FPS 2K DSR GPU build? I decide to replace my old 750ti, still impressed with this card but it starting to aged since The Division ..

What would happen to our game if we're out of VRAM? Because honestly, up until now I'm playing GTA V with 2GB 750ti in all Maxed and On Settings 1080p (minus MSAA and Advanced Graphic Settings) and still get average of 35FPS. It ate 2,6gb of VRAM but I didn't get any bad performance worthy of notice (except of fps drops for a secs in a sudden crowded scene).

How long will this 3GB card last me, mainly for Ultra 1080p gaming?

Sadly, I can't afford 6GB version of GTX 1060 this year, since I'm also planning to get 250GB SSD and really want to pre-order Steep from Store .. and yeah 'college student $ management'.

My other specs :
i5-4690k
8GB RAM
500GB HDD

[SoldierScar]

Andrius227 a écrit :

SoldierScar a écrit :

don't get it must be really bad even 6gb gtx 1060 can't max out games at stable 60 fps, i'm disappointed.

Max out games with a gtx1060 ? Do you even realise it's meant to be a mid range gpu ? Also even top end gpu's such as gtx1080 can't max out games either...

Yes, but it's as strong as Gtx980, today games like gta v or fallout 4 have even lower requirements like gtx 780 which is even less powerful and i still get unstable framerate of 45-100 fps, do they really don't give a ♥♥♥♥ about optimization?

[Andrius227]

SoldierScar a écrit :

Andrius227 a écrit :

Max out games with a gtx1060 ? Do you even realise it's meant to be a mid range gpu ? Also even top end gpu's such as gtx1080 can't max out games either...

Yes, but it's as strong as Gtx980, today games like gta v or fallout 4 have even lower requirements like gtx 780 which is even less powerful and i still get unstable framerate of 45-100 fps, do they really don't give a ♥♥♥♥ about optimization?

Well thats the games fault not the gpu makers. I do play fallout 4 for example and i still see fps drops to as low as 40fps with my gtx1080. Thats just a fallout thing.

[banzaigtv]

GTA V uses nearly all of my GPU's 4 GB VRAM in 1080p and the graphics settings are not even maxed out. You should definitely get the 6 GB version. The 3 GB version is basically a GTX 1050 in disguise. It's weird, though, because the GTX 1050 could have easily been a 4 GB card.

[Andrius227]

banzaigtv a écrit :

GTA V uses nearly all of my GPU's 4 GB VRAM in 1080p and the graphics settings are not even maxed out. You should definitely get the 6 GB version. The 3 GB version is basically a GTX 1050 in disguise. It's weird, though, because the GTX 1050 could have easily been a 4 GB card.

Yeah i agree that having 2 different gtx1060's is dumb, now we always have to specify the amount of vram whenever we mention a gtx1060. Should have just called it a gtx1050.

But also that card is not supposed to max games out. Why are ppl complaining about that ? In gta5 specifically, i can run medium-high settings with an old 2gb gtx680 so there is that. With some tuning a gtx1060 3gb should run gta5 on ~high settings if you just set the textures to medium (and/or other vram intensive settings such as shadow resolution).

[banzaigtv]

A GTX 980 can run GTA V at 1080p 60 fps with 2xMSAA and all main video settings pretty much maxed out. Running the game with the advanced video settings maxed out as well recommends a GTX 1080 8 GB card.

[Andrius227]

banzaigtv a écrit :

A GTX 980 can run GTA V at 1080p 60 fps with 2xMSAA and all main video settings pretty much maxed out. Running the game with the advanced video settings maxed out as well recommends a GTX 1080 8 GB card.

Fully maxing out gta 5 including all advanced settings with just a single gtx1080 ? HAHAHA good joke hahhahahha too funny. I have a gtx1080. I havent played gta5 in a while, but i'm sure i had all advanced settings off and then i had to turn some normal settings down to ~high to keep minimum framerate above 60 (average ~80fps)...

[banzaigtv]

Andrius227 a écrit :

banzaigtv a écrit :

A GTX 980 can run GTA V at 1080p 60 fps with 2xMSAA and all main video settings pretty much maxed out. Running the game with the advanced video settings maxed out as well recommends a GTX 1080 8 GB card.

Fully maxing out gta 5 including all advanced settings with just a single gtx1080 ? HAHAHA good joke hahhahahha too funny. I have a gtx1080. I havent played gta5 in a while, but i'm sure i had all advanced settings off and then i had to turn some normal settings down to ~high to keep minimum framerate above 60 (average ~80fps)...

My normal settings are on ultra and the game constantly runs at 60 fps on my GTX 980. You might have a CPU bottleneck.

[Andrius227]

banzaigtv a écrit :

Andrius227 a écrit :

Fully maxing out gta 5 including all advanced settings with just a single gtx1080 ? HAHAHA good joke hahhahahha too funny. I have a gtx1080. I havent played gta5 in a while, but i'm sure i had all advanced settings off and then i had to turn some normal settings down to ~high to keep minimum framerate above 60 (average ~80fps)...

My normal settings are on ultra and the game constantly runs at 60 fps on my GTX 980. You might have a CPU bottleneck.

I have an i7-5930k OC'd to 4.25ghz. I did have gtx980 and it was nowhere near maxing out gta5, then i got another 980 for sli, which made it much better but still not maxed out. Then i dumped the 980 sli for a 1080. Now out of curiosity i booted up gta 5, ramped everything to max (which includes 8x msaa), while keeping all advanced graphics options off. I see 40-45fps. So yeah some ppl would say 'it runs', but it's not playable.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

SoldierScar a écrit :

don't get it must be really bad even 6gb gtx 1060 can't max out games at stable 60 fps, i'm disappointed.

It's still on par with GTX 980, which yea can't fully max alot of games.
1060 is mid-range, meant for 1080p/High/60FPS (Ultra is alot of games that don't use beyond 3GB of VRAM)

1060 can go beyond a 980 in alot of games though, such as Witcher3 or GTAV

[Aliquis Freedom & Ethnopluralism]

Definitely don't get a GTX 960, whatever 2 or 4 GB, at-least not new and at a reasonable (high) cost. Much slimmer upgrade from your GTX 750Ti.

Now as for the 1060 I haven't actually checked reviews but definitely get the 6 GB anyway because so many are convinced it's the better option that I assume they have a good reason to believe soo. It's as powerful as the GTX 98 after all.

As for the money situation simply ignore the SSD for now and you're just fine. Simple. You can easily get an SSD later once you can afford it but you can't add 3 GB of VRAM to your 1060 3 GB card if you get one.