Pemalite on 01 March 2017
| vivster said: So what to do now with my useless 1080? |
Give it to me. I'll even pay shipping.
| Captain_Yuri said: 11GB, God I hate uneven numbers |
That is because the memory bus is tied to the ROPS, so when nVidia cut down the Rops from 96 to 88 it meant the memory bus width got slashed from 384bit to 352bit.
nVidia basically gives every 8 Rops, 1GB of memory on a 32bit bus with Pascal.
This still isn't a fully enabled Pascal chip.
In order to counter the reduced bandwidth and rops, nVidia drove up the clock rates.
Now nVidia could have taken the approach it has used before and simply included 2Gb of memory on one of the ROP/32-bit Memory bus... But that brings with it a caveat. Once you hit the last 2Gb of memory, performance can tank.
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