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Nvidia upgrades 1060 and 1080 cards with faster memory
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MrBenchmark
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I hope AMD really gets their power usage down. I upgraded my sons PC recently from 2 crossfired R9 270X cards to a RX480 i went thru several of them and none of them were stable! I've used AMD cards many years and never seen such instability like i came across with the 480's. I ended up getting a EVGA 1060 6GB superclock for him and what a stable and reliable card. smaller quieter and it doesn't crash constantly.
RenegadeXV8
Banned
What do you mean by instability? Were games crashing or the whole system?
A single RX480 uses about 200W less power than 2x 270X, so it couldn't be the power usage.
MrBenchmark
Member
right i know. i build PC's for a living 20 years now and I haven't encountered trouble like that in years. they were crashing randomly in games freezing or just flat out rebooting the machine. And the crossfired cards never did that. went thru 3 cards different brand of RX 480's finally just tried the 1060 and the system is rock solid now. Nothing overclocked as i'm past all that nonsense.
the 1060 6GB superclock was cheaper too got $20 back plus a $20 rebate and a free game.
icecold1983
Member
some of these are cross posted from 580 thread. he will be benching lots more games in the coming weeks
gta v
580 v 1060
witcher 3
580 OC v 1060 OC
sniper elite 4
580 v 480 v 1060
doom
580 v 480 v 1060
tomb raider
580 v 480 v 1060
gta v
580 v 1060
witcher 3
580 OC v 1060 OC
sniper elite 4
580 v 480 v 1060
doom
580 v 480 v 1060
tomb raider
580 v 480 v 1060
dr_rus
Member
None of these are for 1060 9Gbps. Not sure what's this have to do with this thread.
icecold1983
Member
One of them is specifically oced and even his non oc tests already have the 1060 at just under 1900 mhz. Not hard to add a few % for the memory boost. Pascal doesnt scale that well with memory ocs in most games
Beerman462
Member
So your thinking was that the medium settings chart showed the 480 winning, because it was at medium settings. If this is true then why not just say that. If you truly did ignore the rest of my posts, to which I say bad form. You would have saw that I went to the PC gamer site and saw that they had the 480 winning in every Mass Effect benchmark and that I thought this could be because a few different reasons. I saw discrepancies like this between other sites as well. So maybe they are benchmarking in different areas or it's a difference in card models. I really don't know.
You know if you would follow your own advice of "really thinking about you want to say" this could be a more productive conversation.
Witcher 3 1060 is running overclocked memory. It should come close to the 1060 9GBs.
IgotElbows
Member
When do they come out?
Any chance of this dropping some 10xx prices?
Would love to buy a 1060 even cheaper than what they are.
Any chance of this dropping some 10xx prices?
Would love to buy a 1060 even cheaper than what they are.
dr_rus
Member
He doesn't say how it was OCed. 1080 scales perfectly fine with 11Gbps memory.
This would be a more productive conversation if you'd discussed the topic at hand instead of twisting my words to prove something about my humble person again.
Felix Lighter
Member
GTA V: 1060 > 580
Witcher 3: 1060 < 580
Sniper Elite 4: 1060 < 580
Doom: 1060 < 580
Tomb Raider: 1060 = 580 (trade blows scene to scene, I can't see a clear advantage)
icecold1983
Member
In the witcher 3 video the 1060 is running at 2.1 ghz with +700 on the memory. Thats even more than the 9gbps official update. His videos always show msi afterburner stats for all gpus
dr_rus
Member
llien
Member
But why do you think so? With 480 even 1400 was not guaranteed, 580 seems to go to to 1500Mhz quite easily. Perf bump is bigger than 4% (although power consumption is higher indeed)
560 has more beef than 460.
550 has no 4xx sibling.
ethomaz
Banned
Are you sure RX 480 is not going over 1400Mhz due the single 6-pin PCI-E connector?
Because all RX 480 6+8-pin reaches 1500Mhz via software.
Yeah pascal does not hold at 2100 at all unless you won the lottery. Your lucky if you get a sustained boost even over 2000 that holds for very long at load. 1900-2050 is what you'll typically be boosting too, and that's with a fairly significant core clock oc. I'm more familiar with a 1070 but maybe a 1060 clocks a bit higher. My laptop has a 1060 but I'm not going to oc it that much in the laptop.
Oachkatzlschwoaf
Member
Depends entirely on the use case.
LelouchZero
Member
Which cards? The GTX 1060, RX 570 and 580 are well over 2.5x more powerful than your Radeon HD 6950.
About your i7 2600K, it depends on the games you're playing and the frame-rates your targeting. Depending on the scenarios the CPU may or may not be limiting your performance.
You should be good for at least 1080p/60fps. An overclocked 2600k is comparable to recent i5's. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUOtTEMn-RU
Gosh dang the 580 is awesome
Choppasmith
Member
Just got a GTX 1060 today. How can I check to be sure I got the updated hardware?
Check memory speed in the GPU-Z program if it says 9000 or 4500 Mhz. YOu have the newer version.
If not it should say 4000 / 8000 Mhz
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