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

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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SoM and dying light are have always been two exceptions that i've gladly accepted, but not owning either of them it's hard to tell just how bad the stuttering really is - i cant judge by these videos online because guru3d, for example, couldnt find a problem with it http://www.guru3d.com/news-story/middle-earth-shadow-of-mordor-geforce-gtx-970-vram-stress-test.html


..so **** it, ive just bought SoM game of the year for $15 lol. I'll find out myself :p
 
D.P. said:
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.
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Agreed, but I think it will start to tell with the next round of AAA games and DX12.

Anyway If informed people buy based on benchmarks then how come Nvidia are doing so well in the mid-range?

As far as I can see AMD/RTG cards have mostly kicked ass in the mid-range for quite a while and they still do (280/280X) and mid-range now(290X/390/390X).

Nvidia and AMD are horses for courses as far as top of the range is concerned right now with Nvidia winning a few more by a nose and when on steroids (OCed) by a half a length.

Everyone line up to place yer bets on the 14/16 NanoMetre Gold Cup in the Spring.

:D
 
Once you get leveled up in SoM, it is actually really good fun. I completed it and it did get a bit repetitive but I still enjoyed it.
 
maonayze said:
Agreed, but I think it will start to tell with the next round of AAA games and DX12.

Anyway If informed people buy based on benchmarks then how come Nvidia are doing so well in the mid-range?

As far as I can see AMD/RTG cards have mostly kicked ass in the mid-range for quite a while and they still do (280/280X) and mid-range now(290X/390/390X).

Nvidia and AMD are horses for courses as far as top of the range is concerned right now with Nvidia winning a few more by a nose and when on steroids (OCed) by a half a length.

Everyone line up to place yer bets on the 14/16 NanoMetre Gold Cup in the Spring.

:D
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970 performance wont change, lots of tests against the 980 and filling 4GB of VRAM and when you make adjustments for the different architectures there is just no performance penalty or stuttering.


Some games do stutter when the VRAM hits ts limits on all cards, the FuryX was shown to stutter in SoM with the ultra textures.

One of the reasons the slower 512 segment doesn't mater is windows will suck up most of that for no real purpose so the Nvidia drives simply shifts the no/low access windows gumpf to the slower portion that isn't accessed during gaming.

The 970 design is actually quite clever and does giver users the benefits of the extra memory, but the fact that the differences to the 980 were not made clear at release is utterly inexcusable.
 
Gregster said:
Once you get leveled up in SoM, it is actually really good fun. I completed it and it did get a bit repetitive but I still enjoyed it.
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I've not levelled up that much yet but still enjoying it. I have made a few crappy Uruk-hai into captains mind you.....ahhh it's early days....and I will learn to stop trying to pile in and take on 20 of them at a time and do it more Sam Fisher style.
:p
 
JediFragger said:
Yup, all AMD owners must automatically have the same mindset by proxy ;) :D

/s
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Well most AMD users don't buy for Epeen :D:D:D so might be less likely to advertise what they bought. The funny thing here is Amd arguably had a better gpu on the market a year earlier in the shape of the 290. My PCS plus stacks up pretty well against a gtx970 as the clocks are closer to the 390. When you actually look at it the gtx970 is nothing special yet the sales would make you think otherwise. Nvidia know how to shift there products and you have to respect them for that.
 
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Hey...Shanks...neither do I. Maybe you are onto something there. I'll round up the masses.

"Hey you lot over there, yes you two on the end of the group of ten. Pop home and sign up for the Steam Survey pronto"

Right that'll do it. Look out Nvidia.

;)
 
no hitching whatsoever in SoM at 2560x1080, vram usage between 3.9gb and 4gb.

I have a video recorded, going to take an age to upload it but i will.

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tried running at 150% resolution (3780x1620) but my framerates tank to <30 anyway. Too slow to be playable.
 
JediFragger said:
Yup, all AMD owners must automatically have the same mindset by proxy ;) :D

/s
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Steam still thinks I use a Xeon E3 1220 and an HD5850 1GB. I upgraded to a Xeon E3 1230 V2,had a new motherboard since then and upgraded to a GTX660 and then a GTX960 and not have been asked for years. Another mate who upgraded from a GTX750TI to a GTX960 was never asked last year either.
 
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