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2018/02/02 09:22:36 (permalink)
This might be a dumb question because I'm clueless when it comes to the technical side of things, but I was running the new Final Fantasy XV benchmark and it read my 1060 6GB SC's VRAM as 6036 MB.
 
But then I noticed the results posted on ResetEra and other 1060 6GB users all had slightly higher VRAM shown - up to 6064 MB. You can see it here:
 





etc.
 
I know it's not a huge inconsistency, but what's the reason for the almost 30MB difference in some cases? I'm just curious about it.
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Re: GTX 1060 6GB - Different VRAM amounts between cards / manufacturers? 2018/02/02 09:25:23 (permalink)
I guess I can't post links yet (or they were caught in a filter or something), but you can take my word for it.
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Re: GTX 1060 6GB - Different VRAM amounts between cards / manufacturers? 2018/02/02 09:28:56 (permalink) ☼ Best Answerby Peradam 2018/02/02 10:41:15
They all have memory in powers of two.  They may have allocated more or less than each other to dedicated hardware needs.  So the 'free' RAM is (inconsequentially) slightly different.
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Re: GTX 1060 6GB - Different VRAM amounts between cards / manufacturers? 2018/02/02 09:33:01 (permalink) ☄ Helpfulby Peradam 2018/02/02 10:41:19
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This might be a dumb question because I'm clueless when it comes to the technical side of things, but I was running the new Final Fantasy XV benchmark and it read my 1060 6GB SC's VRAM as 6036 MB.
 
But then I noticed the results posted on ResetEra and other 1060 6GB users all had slightly higher VRAM shown - up to 6064 MB. You can see it here:
 
 
 
 
 
 
etc.
 
I know it's not a huge inconsistency, but what's the reason for the almost 30MB difference in some cases? I'm just curious about it.


Don't depend upon games to tell you your actual vram. Usually they tell you what is available  not the physical ram installed. The GPU actually has 6144MB of RAM physically on the GPU.
Use a program like TechPowerUp's GPU-Z or even Nvidia's own Control Panel has an info section giving the you the installed memory. Why they have higher shown could be up to difference in OS and game settings that use a few more megabytes of memory on the desktop or in the game. It is not your GPU.

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Re: GTX 1060 6GB - Different VRAM amounts between cards / manufacturers? 2018/02/02 09:54:04 (permalink) ☄ Helpfulby Peradam 2018/02/02 10:41:23
Give GPU Shark 0.11.1.1 Released a Look See

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Re: GTX 1060 6GB - Different VRAM amounts between cards / manufacturers? 2018/02/02 10:41:08 (permalink)
I ran GPU-Z when I first installed the card just to make sure there were no surprises, so I knew 6144 MB was the total amount. GPU Shark and GPU-Z both show the same thing, no problems there.
 
Running the FFXV benchmark a few times always displayed the same amount of VRAM. I thought it might change if other processes were running in the background, but it didn't, and the benchmark settings were all the same for the results I compared with, so that's what got me wondering about it. But it makes sense that hardware and OS would affect the amount that was shown, I should've realised. Thanks for the help, guys.
post edited by Peradam - 2018/02/02 11:06:48
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Re: GTX 1060 6GB - Different VRAM amounts between cards / manufacturers? 2018/02/02 11:57:58 (permalink) ☄ Helpfulby Peradam 2018/02/02 13:19:46
Make sure you also check out the Detailed Mode (Under View) and Memory Info (Under Tools) in GPU Shark.
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Re: GTX 1060 6GB - Different VRAM amounts between cards / manufacturers? 2018/02/02 13:17:48 (permalink)
You know I completely ignored the tools menu earlier, thanks for pointing that out. The detailed view I did see, but there was nothing that stood out. This is the data:
 
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- Elapsed time: 00:04:27
- Windows 7 64-bit build 7601 [Service Pack 1]
- OpenGL info:
 - GL_VERSION: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 390.65 (# ext: 405)
 - GL_RENDERER: GeForce GTX 1060 6GB/PCIe/SSE2
 - GL memory - total:6144MB, usage:939MB
  GPU 1 - NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB
- GPU: GP106 (rev: A1)
- Bus ID: 5
- Device ID: 10DE-1C03
- Subvendor: EVGA (3842-6163)
- Driver version: R390.65
- NV driver branch: r390_63-2
- Bios version: 86.06.63.00.60
- GPU memory size: 6143MB
- GPU memory vendor: Hynix
- GPU memory type: 192-bit GDDR5
- GPU memory location: GPU dedicated
- GPU temp: 36.0°C (min:36.0°C - max:37.0°C)
- Fan speed: 0.0% / 0.0 RPM
- GPU cores: 1280
- GPU ROPs: 48
- GPU Texture units: 80
- TDP: 120 Watts
- Current clock speeds:
  - Core: 139.0MHz
  - Texture fillrate: 11.1 GTexel/sec
  - Pixel fillrate: 6.7 GPixel/sec
  - Mem: 405.0MHz
  - Mem bandwidth: 19.4GB/s
- Base clock speeds:
  - GPU core: 1607.0MHz
  - Texture fillrate: 128.6 GTexel/s
  - Pixel fillrate: 77.1 GPixel/s
  - Mem: 4004.0MHz
  - Mem bandwidth: 192.2GB/s
- Boost clock speeds:
  - GPU core: 1835.0MHz
  - Texture fillrate: 146.8 GTexel/s
  - Pixel fillrate: 88.1 GPixel/s
  - Mem: 4004.0MHz
  - Mem bandwidth: 192.2GB/s
- Clock speeds offsets:
  - GPU core: 0.0MHz
  - GPU voltage: 0.000V
  - Mem: 0.0MHz
- GPU power:
  - Current power: 7.4% TDP
  - Min power: 50.0% TDP
  - Max power: 116.7% TDP
  - Default power: 100.0% TDP
  - Power target: 100.0% TDP
- GPU and memory usage:
  - GPU: 10.0%, max: 33.0%
  - GPU memory: 15.3%
  - GPU memory controller: 7.0%
- Limiting policies (NVIDIA):
  - no limitation
- Current active 3D applications:
  --> dwm.exe (PID: 1900)
  --> setpoint.exe (PID: 2596)
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But the Memory Info displays something I've never heard of before - "Eviction count: 11", "Evicted memory: 110MB" - should I be concerned or not?
 
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Re: GTX 1060 6GB - Different VRAM amounts between cards / manufacturers? 2018/02/02 13:26:58 (permalink)
No, I would not be concerned.

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Re: GTX 1060 6GB - Different VRAM amounts between cards / manufacturers? 2018/02/02 13:27:50 (permalink)
Alrighty, thanks again!
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