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NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 970 Now The Most Popular Graphics Card on Steam, Survey Reports
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If AMD had mislead the market in similar fashion to the GTX970, there would be screaming in here for heads to roll.
However you clapped at Nvidia scam, instead of throwing at least some rotten vegetables and eggs to them.
That says it all.
As for the 970 on Steam, do not forget, it counts laptops also. There is no current gaming laptop out there with AMD GPU on. And I know at least six at work, who have GTX970m laptops.
As for the rest, if AMD wants to do sales, MUST have their products before NV. Because with Pascal, everyone going to buy mid range gpu, and even if the AMD one is far superior, it comes 3-4 months late. Not many people change cards every few months, let alone few years.
Regarding the survey, don't you see there are no R9 numbers? 7900 or 7700 or 8800!!!!!!!! (from mobile gpus the latest)
So clearly something is wrong with the survey basket.
However you clapped at Nvidia scam, instead of throwing at least some rotten vegetables and eggs to them.
That says it all.
As for the 970 on Steam, do not forget, it counts laptops also. There is no current gaming laptop out there with AMD GPU on. And I know at least six at work, who have GTX970m laptops.
As for the rest, if AMD wants to do sales, MUST have their products before NV. Because with Pascal, everyone going to buy mid range gpu, and even if the AMD one is far superior, it comes 3-4 months late. Not many people change cards every few months, let alone few years.
Regarding the survey, don't you see there are no R9 numbers? 7900 or 7700 or 8800!!!!!!!! (from mobile gpus the latest)
So clearly something is wrong with the survey basket.
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There was screaming for heads to roll in the original thread when it blew up, so what point are you trying to make? That AMD would be treated different? give over.
R9 200 series.
I believe the others are all lumped in with the AMD 7700, 7900 and 8800 series. They should be separate i guess but maybe they numbers are high enough to be listed separately and valve decided to lump them together? who knows. Maybe you should ask?
Nobody did that.
970m is not a 970. it's counted separately.
R9 200 series.
I believe the others are all lumped in with the AMD 7700, 7900 and 8800 series. They should be separate i guess but maybe they numbers are high enough to be listed separately and valve decided to lump them together? who knows. Maybe you should ask?
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Steam survey is going to be there or there abouts, lets not kid ourselves that it isn't on track.
@James, I can't get anywhere near that constant 4GB+ usage, mines sits @~3.7Gb with the odd spike to 4Gb but goes back to ~3.7Gb, nearly everything else sits ~3.6Gb
@James, I can't get anywhere near that constant 4GB+ usage, mines sits @~3.7Gb with the odd spike to 4Gb but goes back to ~3.7Gb, nearly everything else sits ~3.6Gb
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Delusional. 970/Nvidia got panned on here for it. Though once it all blew over it turned out that it didn't really matter to 99.9% of people.
It bothered quite a lot of people on here as gibbo came out saying it was also a non-issue and that there was no misleading information on the box etc., however, no one was having any of that, so ocuk then partnered up with some of the brands i.e. GB, MSI to offer a refund service, most of the people complaining returned their 970's and got 980's instead so nvidia got even more profit in the end 
Where do you opt in or out anyway? I've never seen the option.
Looks good and yer, I had no problem running it on my 970 at 1440P either.
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It bothered quite a lot of people on here as gibbo came out saying it was also a non-issue and that there was no misleading information on the box etc., however, no one was having any of that, so ocuk then partnered up with some of the brands i.e. GB, MSI to offer a refund service, most of the people complaining returned their 970's and got 980's instead so nvidia got even more profit in the end
last time gibbo mentioned it he said the return rate was somewhere around 5% as i recall... as far as what nVidia made from these people it'll be tiny.
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It bothered quite a lot of people on here as gibbo came out saying it was also a non-issue and that there was no misleading information on the box etc., however, no one was having any of that, so ocuk then partnered up with some of the brands i.e. GB, MSI to offer a refund service, most of the people complaining returned their 970's and got 980's instead so nvidia got even more profit in the end
That's the thing that annoyed me the most.
I really don't understand people who just bought a 980 instead, but I guess the Nvidia propaganda game is strong.
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To be honest, I thought the 750Ti would be at the top of this list, due it's performance for the price range. But I guess people are willing to spend more money now to get a better gaming experience....
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I don't really see how you're getting stuttering issues...what card are you running it on and at what settings?
I was tempted to send my 970s back but only because it would have meant 100% refund after a fair bit of free usage 
Decided against the hassle of returning them as I wasnt really having any problems with them.
4K SoM video from 11months ago on my 970:
Worst game to run was probably Dying Light which was pretty stutter heavy Recently switched to 1440P GSync though which is a lot better on the old VRAM front 
Decided against the hassle of returning them as I wasnt really having any problems with them.4K SoM video from 11months ago on my 970:
Worst game to run was probably Dying Light which was pretty stutter heavy
Recently switched to 1440P GSync though which is a lot better on the old VRAM front 
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It might - you need to remember the survey is only is a percentage of the userbase and is optional. I know many of my less geeky mates,just ignore it since they had zero interest in taking part,and I don't mind taking part and have not been asked for yonks. Guess my GTX660 and GTX960 did not make the grade!
I got asked to take part a few days after updating to Windows 10 on my system.
Before that the last time I was asked was when I was running a GTX 580 before getting my 980Ti's.
I would have liked if there was a way to prompt it every few months or so.
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I don't deny it but I know far more GTX750TI and GTX960 owners than say GTX970 owners for example,but most are not really into hardware,so would not take part.