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NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 970 Now The Most Popular Graphics Card on Steam, Survey Reports

JediFragger said:
Tbf I've been pondering a switch down to a s/h 970 due to lack of gaming at present, but I know I'd have to play most games at Medium but I think I'd be ok with that :)
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I was surprised how well the 970 did and it kinda shocked me. I was expecting some stutter in high memory intensive games after reading the amount of people who were not happy but none at all but then I did realise that most of the moaners didn't actually own a 970 :D

Sure Nvidia should have come clean about it, in fact, they missed it from the off and that was inexcusable and it wasn't like anyone would really bother caring anyway, so yep, nvidia dropped a clanger. It is perfect for 1080P and perfect for 1440P so long as you don't mind dropping settings (like I have to in some games on the Titan X).

I have since seen a couple of people trade in for a 970 and they are happy, so go for it. I need that bit of extra grunt for the CV1, so going to stick with the TX and if early Polaris/Pascal isn't that great, I might even grab a second TX from the MM/Ebay and sit out the first round of 14/16nm.
 
Boomstick777 said:
the CEO non-apology made it worse.
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Apology?

'**** you and gimme moar money for that 980'

Even with it's limitations, the 970 is a fantastic card, not surprised in the slightest, even with ramgate it's been an astounding success, that's the crushing might of brand power.
 
Must be why they're holding their value so well.

My Asus Strix 970's are only £25 cheaper to buy today than when I bought them 15mths ago.

And the 3.5GB 'issue' is a complete non issue in the real world, ignore the rage monkeys.
 
randal said:
Even with all the controvesy. Man, they're never going to change their spots now. :D
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Informed people buy based on benchmarks, the benchmarks didn't suddenly get worse when the intricacies of the architecture were made public and so the cards kept on selling.
 
randal said:
but I truly truly hope that AMD can weather this and come out on a par or better and fast.
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390x vs 980. Talk to me. On par if not better and £100 cheaper.....and 390x isnt as good bang for buck as the 390

I had an Nvidia card before my latest one (in sig) and I don't see myself going back to Nvidia any time soon. You simply get a better card for the same money with AMD (mid-range anyway). But thats a story for another thread....or not at all..
 
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Cooper said:
And the 3.5GB 'issue' is a complete non issue in the real world, ignore the rage monkeys.
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I promise im not trying to start a flame war but try play shadow of Mordor on 1440p or more. You WILL run out of VRAM at 3.5GB and you WILL get stuttering. Several videos on youtube about it. Granted 99% of the time gaming will be fine. But it IS an issue, all be it a slight one.
 
tommybhoy said:
Apology?

'**** you and gimme moar money for that 980'

Even with it's limitations, the 970 is a fantastic card, not surprised in the slightest, even with ramgate it's been an astounding success, that's the crushing might of brand power.
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The crushing might of a good product.
 
beany_bot said:
I promise im not trying to start a flame war but try play shadow of Mordor on 1440p or more. You WILL run out of VRAM at 3.5GB and you WILL get stuttering. Several videos on youtube about it. Granted 99% of the time gaming will be fine. But it IS an issue, all be it a slight one.
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It can happen in Star Citizen too @ 1080P Very High settings.

Tho at the moment i wouldn't say its anything like a big issue.
 
humbug said:
It can happen in Star Citizen too @ 1080P Very High settings.

Tho at the moment i wouldn't say its anything like a big issue.
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Just to balance this out i have also successfully run it at 4K, it depends..... on stuff.

 
bru said:
If they are not on point with Polaris and Zen, lets just say it would be bad for all of us.
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It is going to be magical.

Would like to see a Zen CPU with a HBM cache though. Get an entire 8GB or something with CPU then upgrade it with external ram for less frequently requested data.
 
JediFragger said:
I think they may have forego any major profit for the next line or two, just to get a good foothold for the future (ala the bargainous 4870!)
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I have no idea what went wrong but when you look at history, they released the 7970/50 and nice cards (even if a little pricey) but no competition meant they had a couple of months at the 28nm node before Nvidia. Nvidia release a 680/70 with less VRAM but faster and slightly cheaper and they sold very well, 10 months later, AMD release the 12.11 drivers (iirc) and it then kicked the 680's and 670's butt but by then, we were already looking at the Titan/780 and then when AMD struck back with the 290X, Nvidia released the 780Ti.

I really sympathise with AMD but they don't help themselves at times. If they had got the performance up to a high standard for the 7xxx series, they could have cleaned up and we might well have been looking at a very different scenario to what we are now with market share.
 
Gregster said:
I really sympathise with AMD but they don't help themselves at times
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I must admit I've always been a fan of ATi/AMD cards BUT they have come across as a bit unprofessional at times. I'm hoping that this will begin to change with the RTG spin-off and it seems that they've made a good start :cool:

I personally would love nothing more than my next card to be AMD! The monitor thing wouldn't bother me, I bought it mainly for the high Hz :D :cool:
 
JediFragger said:
I must admit I've always been a fan of ATi/AMD cards BUT they have come across as a bit unprofessional at times. I'm hoping that this will begin to change with the RTG spin-off and it seems that they've made a good start :cool:

I personally would love nothing more than my next card to be AMD! The monitor thing wouldn't bother me, I bought it mainly for the high Hz :D :cool:
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+1

A bit unprofessional.....If their ball was an anvil it couldn't have hurt them any more than the coil whine and the over pricing of the cards themselves. I want RTG to be the best bang for buck company because that is how they will bring their product share back in line with Nvidia's.

r22snapper said:
Meh, who wants to be like everyone else anyway? ;)
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Yeah, me too LOL :p
 
maonayze said:
A bit unprofessional.....If their ball was an anvil it couldn't have hurt them any more than the coil whine and the over pricing of the cards themselves. I want RTG to be the best bang for buck company because that is how they will bring their product share back in line with Nvidia's.
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I'm hoping they're made to be small, keen and very *very* mean ;)
 
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