6gb on a NVIDIA GTX 660

[xavi.reyes999]

Hey, lately I have been helping a friend of mine with an upgrade on his graphics card. Concretely he is upgrading from a GTX 660 to a GTX 1060.

The point of this post is that casually, before changing the card, I found on dxdiag that the 660 had 6021MB of memory. I found it strange that it had so much memory, so I google'd it. I didn't find any similar card, specifically the max amount of memory in a 660 I've found on my research is 3 gb.

If someone could provide more insight on this case I would be grateful. The computer has 8 gigs of RAM and an Intel i5 4670 processor.

Thank you for your help.

(screenshot of the dxdiag results in spanish below)

 

[Kasper Jorgensen]

It is possible that the card manufacture had made a 6GB version. Which brand is the card?

 

[xavi.reyes999]

It is possible that the card manufacture had made a 6GB version. Which brand is the card?

It is a Gigabyte card

 

[bignastyid]

Use a program that is more accurate at detecting dedicated vram like gpuz. Dxdiag is notoriously erroneous as it also adds in the aperture size with thr dedicated vram.

 

[xavi.reyes999]

Use a program that is more accurate at detecting dedicated vram like gpuz. Dxdiag is notoriously erroneous as it also adds in the aperture size with thr dedicated vram.

You are right, thank you Sir.

 

[k1114]

It's never erroneous, dxdiag just adds shared. If you click save all info, it breaks it down.