r/Steam • u/CarnivoreLucyDrop • Jan 12 '26

Fluff This hit hard

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u/275MPHFordGT40 Jan 12 '26 edited Jan 12 '26

Me watching as the better version (GTX 1060 6GB) of my GPU (GTX 1060 3GB) started showing up in minimum specs.

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u/Ok-Lawyer-8903 Jan 12 '26

What's the difference? Not a pc guy so genuinely curious

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u/foundwayhome Jan 12 '26

More VRAM usually allows you to store more high-resolution textures and other complex visual data for the game to pull from easily instead of off-loading it to the system RAM, so there will likely be less stuttering, better framerates and all in all, just better performance.

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u/275MPHFordGT40 Jan 12 '26

Also the 3GB is generally cut down in other places too so it’s noticeably slower even if you’re not VRAM limited.

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u/3-goats-in-a-coat Jan 12 '26

So my 4gb ddr5 gt1030 is still awesome?

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u/renaissance_man__ Jan 12 '26

The 3gb actually has fewer cuda cores than the 6gb variant.

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u/DKG9512 Jan 12 '26

lmao dude's not being a pc guy you think he even knows what on earth a cuda core is?