No its a graphics card

And something which should be written in big flashing letters above each one is that you're not only getting half the VRAM, but less CUDA cores too - 1152 versus the 1280 of the 6GB model. No doubt more than a few uninformed people will purchase the 3GB model thinking that they're getting a full GTX 1060. That's Nvidia's plan after all.

Absolutely. Even 1080p is going to be using over 3GB nowadays.

for the sake of an extra £35 the 6gb version surely is more future proofed and worth the investment

Bit late to this thread but as I'm looking at getting a 1060 to replace my old GTX680, I was interested in what others thought about it. After seeing it being played down as "no good", I did a few searches and found a comparison of the 6gb vs 3gb and it's actually not too shabby in performance terms so value-wise, it's probably a better bet ... however, I think I'd spend a bit more and get the 6gb version myself.
Review is here ...
PassMark Comparison

Less memory and fewer cores - NVidia should be a bit more honest and call this a GTX 1055 as it's likely to be somewhere between a 1050 and 1060 in performance terms. This sort of deliberate market confusion just damages the company's reputation and it's not at all necessary.

Neither of these cards will "be retired" while playing 1080p games.

The worst case scenario is a few titles push the VRAM to past 3gb and you would have to turn down the textures a bit.

This card is absolutely a great card right now. It may have VRAM limitations in 2+ years, but at 188.99, it's a really good price.

The CUDA core reduction of 11.1% is less than the AMD 8GB->4GB VRAM clock speed reduction (8ghz->7ghz). That's over 14%.

I'm looking for a graphics card to run three monitors for work with my 4th gen i7 desktop. I'm assuming this would this be overkill? I don't really need it for gaming. Would prefer to spend less than £100, but need something that will be fine with three screens. My current graphics card (GTX 745) only has two outputs. Any advice appreciated :-)

Why are these so hot?
No stock,no reviews #softlaunches becoming the norm!

Very cheeky for Nvidia to call this a 1060 but cut down the chip so much. That's without even talking about the paltry 3GB of VRAM. I would steer clear of a 3GB card in 2016, even 4GB won't be enough soon for the latest games.

My GTX 970 by MSI is still treating me well and tearing through every game I try. Might wait another year before trying this card.

After all, what if it's 2.4GB VRAM like the gtx 970?

980ti is the minimum to have

Been happening for years, used to be cards that came with ddr2 instead of gddr3, or some with 64bit bus instead of 128, often hidden somewhere on packaging. Both AMD and nvidia guilty of it.

I have a GTX960 4GB and even at 1080P I see games going past 3GB of graphics RAM!!

Which model is your motherboard? if you could find this setting in your BIOS "onboard VGA", then turn it to "always on". It might help depends on motherboard support.

Besides, other GTX 745 does have three ports.
https://www.techpowerup.com/gpudb/images/2561.jpg

We'll just have to wait for benchmarks but I'm sure the 6GB would be the wiser choice especially with games easily eating up close to 4GB as of late.
This is a 980 replacement card and having less than that cards memory is just plain silly.

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An nvidia gtx 750 would be ideal. But is it a slim or low profile pc? As only two inputs on a graphics card is very odd

of course i understand, but i'm also attracted to the saving
it's choice, albeit you consider it a poor one...

Many thanks for the reply. It's a pre-built Medion PC. I tried connecting a third monitor to the motherboard VGA output. Didn't work. Went into BIOS and there didnt seem to be a setting to turn on Motherboard output - just the graphics card output. Can you recomend a cheaper card that wouldn't be a downgrade from my GTX 745?

I can afford it now just need to see a full battle between AMD and nVidia. Rumor says AMD is releasing new high end card to compete 1070 or 1080 in October. Still hesitating between 1060 or 1070. After all these years using AMD cards, I have decided to go nVidia this time.

if you want to play @20fps yes, you will not use the full 3gb if you play at the frames you should play and by the time you lower settings, what a silly thing not to sli the 6gb

seems great bang for the buck (not everybody is concerned of the future but maybe wants to play here and now)
unfortunately Overclockers and Scan DO NOT ship to continental EU.

Do you know of any reputable seller that does this? Apart from usul Amazon.co.uk
tnx

​its 10% less performance in current games but you will need the 6gb version as future games will absolutely struggle on 3gb so that 10% will turn into 30-40% and you will wish you spent the extra £35

There is a cut down in the CUDA cores -
3GB - 1152
6GB - 1280
so expect maybe 10% slower on performance

And something which should be written in big flashing letters above each one is that you're not only getting half the VRAM, but less CUDA cores too - 1152 versus the 1280 of the 6GB model. No doubt more than a few uninformed people will purchase the 3GB model thinking that they're getting a full GTX 1060. That's Nvidia's plan after all.

good find op, heat added

for the sake of an extra £35 the 6gb version surely is more future proofed and worth the investment

Are there any reviews on the 3gb model yet? I haven't seen any and so I've no idea if this is a decent deal.

You'd be lucky. Last Christmas, 970s fluctuated by no more than around 3% in price, which was due more to the Pound against the dollar than anything else. Just buy as soon as you can afford it.

Yes I think so. Strangely enough I can't find any reviews yet whereas with the full 6GB GTX 1060 there were so many reviews it was hard to keep track of them

a 1060 is rubbish