I need some guidance with purchasing a GTX 1060.

[Propheciah]

Hello everyone, I have a concern regarding the various types of boost clocks available for purchase (specifically for the GTX 1060). I want to grab the Gigabyte version. I only game on 1080p so I know I will only need 3GB of vRAM, but there are also 3 boost clock choices available. They are 1771, 1797, and 1847 MHz. The price difference between the lowest and highest boost clocked cards is $40. Is this 40 dollar price increase really worth 76 MHz? That seems laughable to me, couldn't I just purchase the 1771 MHz version for $189 and just clock the extra hertz in with Afterburner?

 

[Eldy]

You could do that if you wanted, as that is the cheaper solution, but i guess the higher boost cards are just more targeted at people who don't really know what they are doing or just want to plug it in and play. Also, some higher boost clock cards come with different aesthetics / cooling solutions, so that is a plus as well. But if you are tight on your budget and don't want to spend the extra $40 then overclocking the lower boost speed card will do just fine.

 

[RobCrezz]

No not worth it. You can just get the cheaper on and use afterburner.

 

[filippi]

Do you intend to keep this gpu for some years? If so it is not worth to buy a 3GBVRAM gpu any more. Not even for 1080p.

 

[Propheciah]

Do you intend to keep this gpu for some years? If so it is not worth to buy a 3GBVRAM gpu any more even for 1080p.

Wow, really? Would you mind explaining why? I didn't think games would really start using that much more vRAM at little old 1080

 

[filippi]

Many AAA games right now go far beyond 2GBVRAM @1080p.
The 1060-3GB still good for now.
For now.

 

[RobCrezz]

Do you intend to keep this gpu for some years? If so it is not worth to buy a 3GBVRAM gpu any more even for 1080p.

Wow, really? Would you mind explaining why? I didn't think games would really start using that much more vRAM at little old 1080

Starting to. Plus the 6gb version is faster too (more cuda cores).

 

[L0stChild]

oc edition is some what a marketing catch. pretty much the same goes with base/boost clocks of different brands.
they generally would put out the same when you manually overclock. those numbers only matter for people who wont overclock.

as Robcrezz said, buy the cheaper one or which ever is more appealing to you and overclock it yourself.

when buying gpus:
make sure you have compatible psu/psu wire configuration(6pin 8pin)
make sure it can fit in your case
does your motherboard support it
dont touch the fan when its spinning lol

 

[Propheciah]

Do you intend to keep this gpu for some years? If so it is not worth to buy a 3GBVRAM gpu any more even for 1080p.

Wow, really? Would you mind explaining why? I didn't think games would really start using that much more vRAM at little old 1080

Starting to. Plus the 6gb version is faster too (more cuda cores).

Huh, funny that I thought my 4GB GTX 770 I bought 2 years ago would have an overkill amount of vRAM for a long time. I also didn't know there was a cuda core difference between the two either. Thanks for the heads up