Advertising Gbps on Video Cards

dirtyferret · Apr 27, 2017

Anyone else have an issue with this product? I'm not picking on just Asus as I own many of their fine products and they are certainly not the first company to use deceptive marketing but this clearly aimed at consumers thinking they are purchasing a 9GB (not gigabit) video card.

ASUS GeForce GTX 1060 OC 6GB 9Gbps Edition

cdawall · Apr 27, 2017

It says 9gbps not my problem if people don't know what that means.

JATownes · Apr 27, 2017

Well in their defense, there are GTX1060s with slower memory...so they need to market that it is the faster memory model.

JAT

qubit · Apr 27, 2017

Your link is to a review of this graphics card, not the Asus product page. The box in the picture clearly shows "9Gbps GDDR5" which is correct, so what do you have an issue with?

DRDNA · Apr 27, 2017

i really see no other way of letting potential customers know that they are getting a faster memory model. I hope it didn't confuse you.

trparky · Apr 27, 2017

Is it me or is all of this stuff getting way too complicated?

cdawall · Apr 27, 2017

It's just you.

trparky · Apr 27, 2017

I was watching some video on YouTube where he was comparing several difference models of the same GPU chip. 1080, 1080Ti, 1080 Founders Edition, and Titan XP, Titan Xp, and something else. Uh... yeah.

dorsetknob · Apr 27, 2017

Review and packaging clearly State cards memory Capacity at 6 GB GDDR5 and its Rated Performance Speed at 9gbps
some one needs to attend Remedial Reading Classes

and or learn to understand the art of posting with out putting proverbial foot in mouth :nutkick:

DRDNA · Apr 27, 2017

trparky said:
Is it me or is all of this stuff getting way too complicated?

Well I can say that I have a slew of $150,000+ a year salary R&D guys and gals who screw this type of stuff up on the regular, but if they follow the process by using the IT techs then no issues.

EDIT most off them have a PhD too....lol

64K · Apr 27, 2017

trparky said:
I was watching some video on YouTube......

That's where you went wrong.

RejZoR · Apr 27, 2017

It clearly says 6GB. Though I kinda agree they should bloody use GHz for the memory clocks. That's like measuring car speed using knots... It defines a correct speed, sure, but it's idiotic.

cdawall · Apr 27, 2017

trparky said:
I was watching some video on YouTube where he was comparing several difference models of the same GPU chip. 1080, 1080Ti, 1080 Founders Edition, and Titan XP, Titan Xp, and something else. Uh... yeah.

The Titan X pascal, Titan Xp and 1080ti share GP102, the 1080FE, 1080, 1070 and even some 1060's all share GP104. Don't know why YouTube you were watching, but might want to fact check some more.

trparky · Apr 27, 2017

I found the video I was watching.

It gave me a headache trying to keep track of all the models.

jboydgolfer · Apr 27, 2017

ISP's have Actually been false advertising for years with actual deceptive tactics (until recent years they have stopped)

then there a small disclaimer somewhere stating Mb/s is in Megabits, not bytes, but they should never use the MB representation in the 1st place, & instead use the 100Mb/s one.
one could only guess what asus intended with that labeling, but in theyre defense they Did label it properly. (technically)

dirtyferret · Apr 27, 2017

RejZoR said:
It clearly says 6GB. Though I kinda agree they should bloody use GHz for the memory clocks. That's like measuring car speed using knots... It defines a correct speed, sure, but it's idiotic.

Obviously you should like video cards have done for years. It's clearly a tactic for the average consumer to look at the title and then look at the other 1060 6GB cards and say hey 9 is larger then 6 so it must be faster!

cdawall · Apr 27, 2017

dirtyferret said:
Obviously you should like video cards have done for years. It's clearly a tactic for the average consumer to look at the title and then look at the other 1060 6GB cards and say hey 9 is larger then 6 so it must be faster!

It is faster than the other 6GB cards. That is the whole point...

qubit · Apr 27, 2017

dirtyferret said:
Obviously you should like video cards have done for years. It's clearly a tactic for the average consumer to look at the title and then look at the other 1060 6GB cards and say hey 9 is larger then 6 so it must be faster!

This card is a slightly faster version of the original - faster memory - so you have a problem with Asus accurately specifying this difference on the box, is that right?

erocker · Apr 27, 2017

Nvidia, not Asus is labeling cards this way.

Gasaraki · Apr 27, 2017

dirtyferret said:
Anyone else have an issue with this product? I'm not picking on just Asus as I own many of their fine products and they are certainly not the first company to use deceptive marketing but this clearly aimed at consumers thinking they are purchasing a 9GB (not gigabit) video card.

ASUS GeForce GTX 1060 OC 6GB 9Gbps Edition

That is the proper way to advertise for that card. The 3GB ram version is different architecturally and the regular 6GB version has the slower ram. If you don't know what 6GB 9Gbs Edition means, well tough luck. GB and Gbs are not the same.

qubit · Apr 27, 2017

erocker said:
Nvidia, not Asus is labeling cards this way.

What I'm wondering about is why they're not specifying the whole memory bandwidth available. I think that 9Gbps figure is per pin? Makes it sound like impossibly fast broadband. :laugh:

Gasaraki · Apr 27, 2017

trparky said:
Is it me or is all of this stuff getting way too complicated?

HAHAHAHA. My sweet summer child. You didn't have to adjust COM ports and high memory to get your sound working in Duke Nukem 3D.

peche · Apr 27, 2017

Marketing at its finest, 9GBps just to squeeze some moar pennies out your wallet!

Regards,

Kanan · Apr 27, 2017

It's just an issue if you can't make out the difference between GB and Gbps - I don't think Asus is remotely in business or need to deceive anyone. It's still a premium brand.

erocker · Apr 27, 2017

qubit said:
What I'm wondering about is why they're not specifying the whole memory bandwidth available. I think that 9Gbps figure is per pin? Makes it sound like impossibly fast broadband.

I look at it as the updated card/new revision/whatever. It has faster RAM, that's all I know.

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Advertising Gbps on Video Cards

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cdawall

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