Why are GTX 1060s only 3GB or 6GB while the most of GPUs are 4 or 8GB?

[Mete Han]

Why are GTX 1060s only 3GB or 6GB while the most of GPUs are 4 or 8GB?

 

[Mohammad Khatib]

Because why not?
There's no rule says that gpu memory capacity shouldn't be odd

 

[Jordan Strait]

To keep the market separate. A 8gb 1060 wouldn't be far off from a 1070. They have price points to hit

 

[Hassan Basel]

Because why not

 

[Daru Jati]

Because it has 192 bit

 

[Andrew Cobb]

Because #YOLO

 

[Charlie Lee]

Meh

 

[Ron Perillo]

Because when those video cards were released, NVIDIA was touting the advances of their texture compression which is why the 3GB version performs so well framerate-wise despite packing less hardware.

 

[Chris Dewald]

Because it has a 192 bit bus and not a 128 or 256 bit one

 

[Hans Becker]

 

[John Pearce]

Do you mean the 1060 and the 1060 ti lol

 

[John Pearce]

The 1060 3gb was released like the 1070ti to compete with AMD cards. It's all about price point

 

[Alex M Duffield]

An interim step between 4 and 8

 

[Maysam Sahranavard]

The 1060 3gb has morr ram than 1050ti 4 gb

 

[Maurice Müller]

Why is the banana curved?

 

[Francis Jay Abordo]

.....

 

[John Michaels]

It's just another stupid business strategy. Since 2gb cards are no longer relevant.