Asus GTX1060 6GB - Reads as 4GB

[THRobinson]

Just installed my new card today. I ran the DDU driver uninstaller to get rid of the old GTX960 and installed the new card with the latested drivers from NVidia (not the CD that comes with the card).

Runs fine, ran the FurMark test to see if any obvious issues. I ran HWiNFO64 to see how the card comes up, and make/model show, but says GPU 4.0GB, I click into it for more details, and it says it's the GeForce GTX 1060 6GB, and under video memory, 4095MBytes.

I clicked on the desktop, under display, advanced, says total available graphics memory 5859MB, then says dedicated video memory 2048MB.

So... what's happening?

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

https://www.techpowerup.com/gpuz/
GPUZ

 

[THRobinson]

Grabbed the app, but not sure what it means... shows 6GB but is that just the total? or the amount being used?

Windows shows 6GB as well, but also says only 2GB being used.

 

[THRobinson]

So, ASUS suggested to update the video card drivers and BIOS... video card was just installed, most current (non-beta) release, clean install. BIOS was a year old, had about 5 updates since last I did it so, updated the BIOS for my motherboard.

Decided to give UNIGINE a try, see what it shows and same as the rest... says the GTX 1060 6GB... then shows 4095MB in brackets.

Part of the benchmark results

Platform:Windows 7 (build 7601, Service Pack 1) 64bit
CPU model:Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1231 v3 @ 3.40GHz (3392MHz) x4
GPU model:NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB 21.21.13.7619 (4095MB) x1

 

[THRobinson]

Anyone?

ASUS support is kinda lacking in help at this point. Need to figure it out to know if the card needs returned, or if it's a setting in Windows/BIOS or something.

 

[THRobinson]

Anyone?

 

[THRobinson]

Sigh... ya let me down Tom's Hardware... ya let me down.