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Bazskating

Bazskating

Bazskating

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ive got a 970 on preorder, been reading up on the vram issues recently and a little bit worried about my investment

should I still keep my 970 preorder or upgrade to the 980?

I currently game at 1080p and have two monitors
 
There are no "issues", there is just false advertising from Nvidia. The card is just as good as it was when it was launched. I agree, some people have lost trust in the brand, but it's an exaggeration in my view not to buy their product because of this.
And benchmark / game performance numbers don't lie.
 
I also had a 970 on pre-order. I decided to upgrade to a 980.

I took a close look at the AMD 290X, but I think the 970 is still the better card for 1080p. I think the 3.5GB issue will affect people running 4K with two 970s in SLI the most. My impression is that the 970 remains the better card for 1080p, but that two 290X's would be better for 4K.

I decided to upgrade to a 980 because I didn't want to risk becoming dissatisfied with the 970 in 12 months' time. The 980 doesn't suffer from the 3.5 GB issue, and I think the extra grunt of the 980 will be more useful than the extra VRAM of the 290X 8GB.
 
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dewi said:
I took a close look at the AMD 290X, but I think the 970 is still the better card for 1080p. I think the 3.5GB issue will affect people running 4K with two 970s in SLI the most.
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Doesnt affect me. Gsync is my friend.


There are no "issues", there is just false advertising from Nvidia. The card is just as good as it was when it was launched. I agree, some people have lost trust in the brand, but it's an exaggeration in my view not to buy their product because of this.
And benchmark / game performance numbers don't lie.
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+1 in a big way
 
badly optimized is the norm now
ive played over 10hrs dying light so far on a 290
its been fine, i think the game is more cpu limited tbh
but i had stuff running in background so
 
Mei said:
badly optimized is the norm now
ive played over 10hrs dying light so far on a 290
its been fine, i think the game is more cpu limited tbh
but i had stuff running in background so
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yeah one of the guys at work said it burned up his 1090T.
 
With multi-platform games hogging memory the 970 has suddenly become a little less future proof than the 290 and for gamers with 1080p screens who wanted a card to see them through the step up to 1440p they may feel concerned now.

However whilst the 970 specs were now known to be misreported it was benchmarks that sold it to most people, and those were true. Remember an overclocked 970 can trounce a 290X and still use less power.

Maybe knocking Nvidia down a peg or 2 is a good thing in the long run, as long as people keep them, and other companies, accountable for what they are claiming to sell.
 
ghost.florian said:
There are no "issues", there is just false advertising from Nvidia. The card is just as good as it was when it was launched. I agree, some people have lost trust in the brand, but it's an exaggeration in my view not to buy their product because of this.
And benchmark / game performance numbers don't lie.
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People keep saying this card is as good as when it was launched.

It may be technically the same but now that we have newer games it's most certainly not as good.

If it were then its shortcomings would not have been discovered.
 
Bazskating said:
ive got a 970 on preorder, been reading up on the vram issues recently and a little bit worried about my investment

should I still keep my 970 preorder or upgrade to the 980?

I currently game at 1080p and have two monitors
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Upgrade to 980 if you want Nvidia, or else get a 290X for much less money
 
Over 3.5GB used here on Dying Light @ 1080p here maxed settings. Definite stuttering on my GTX 970 :(
 
ghost.florian said:
Well coded games should not use more than 3GB of memory at 1080p or even 1440p.
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Why not? You stick enough high res texture in the game and it'll use any amount of vram you can imagine. Also the resolution is largely irrelevant since the amount of vram used for frame buffer and backbuffer(s) is relatively small.

The xbone/PS4 have 8 GB combined ram/vram, and since most of a games memory usage is down to textures, you will absolutely get games that use more than 3.5 GB of vram. People have already reported Shadows of Mordor, Far Cry 4, Dying Light etc using more than 3.5GB and causing issues on 970s.
 
When I was in the market for a GPU I went for a 290. It was delivered with an opened box so I took it back. I then payed more and got a 970. what a mistake that was. Or I could say thanks for sending me used goods OCers :/
 
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well the 970 is going to be a good upgrade to my 580 so I can allways look at upgrading again in a few years if I need to, from what people are saying it sounds like it wont be long before the 4gb 980 is going to start having problems
 
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