nVidia seems to have repeated ram fiasco with the 980ti DISPROVEN! Request closing thread

Phixsator · 2 Jun 2015 at 12:58

It turns out its just windows desktop that eats a lot of ram causing it to slow down. The actual ram is there at full speed. I made an error in the way that i tested it, as pointed out by Layte(thanks man) and as such this is NOT an issue.

I kindly ask a moderator to close this thread as there is no point to it any longer. Sorry for the confusion guys.

ProoF:Test has been rerun through iGPU

Old outdated and disproven

I took a crack at the memory benchmark used to discover the 970 ram issue..To my big surprise yet again, the last 500mb seems gimped..I dont know what to think of this.. This is with my spanking new 980 ti..

New run has been doneo with gpuz running as well.

EDIT: changed the title to reflect what card this is concerning.

Jono8 · 2 Jun 2015 at 13:00

uh oh.

Ayahuasca · 2 Jun 2015 at 13:03

Boomstick777 · 2 Jun 2015 at 13:03

Oh dear..

With this and the news that AMD's Fiji could be slower than GM200, my Titan X looks better and better every day.

Twirlywoos · 2 Jun 2015 at 13:03

This for the 980ti?
Ok, but for the technically challenged or those not plugged into the Matrix what do all those numbers mean?

eyetrip · 2 Jun 2015 at 13:04

Phixsator said:
I took a crack at the memory benchmark used to discover the 970 ram issue..To my big surprise yet again, the last 500mb seems gimped..I dont know what to think of this..

You the person who originally wrote that?

On topic, let's hope not...

MrMD · 2 Jun 2015 at 13:04

After last time none of the early reviewers thought this was worth checking? lol

They wont have done it again on a proper high end card,would they?

layte · 2 Jun 2015 at 13:05

Are you using another card to drive the display whilst running that test?

Tom B · 2 Jun 2015 at 13:05

If it gets ~97% of TX performance... does it really matter?

Maverick2332 · 2 Jun 2015 at 13:06

Tom B said:
If it gets ~97% of TX performance... does it really matter?

When you reach 5.5GB... probably.... maybe.

ChrisJSY · 2 Jun 2015 at 13:07

Isn't the memory bandwidth also slower than advertised? Should be 336.5.

Twirlywoos · 2 Jun 2015 at 13:07

MrMD said:
After last time none of the early reviewers thought this was worth checking? lol

They wont have done it again on a proper high end card,would they?

Why should they when they get loyalties from nvidia why should they jepordize their relationship?

P.s add me on Steam you noob

Phixsator · 2 Jun 2015 at 13:07

layte said:
Are you using another card to drive the display whilst running that test?

No my only display is connected to the 980ti.. ill redo the the tests with some a proper gpuz window next to it for validation reasons.

Boomstick777 · 2 Jun 2015 at 13:08

Tom B said:
If it gets ~97% of TX performance... does it really matter?

Not in terms of performance, but begs the question why can't Nvidia just be upfront about hardware spec in the first place?

The 970 is a good card at a good price, what irritated people was that the spec was actually different to what they thought, and only found out later on.

There's no need for smoke and mirrors, it's a good card why not just be upfront about the spec.

Anyways I hope this isn't true.

PhysicsMan94 · 2 Jun 2015 at 13:08

5888MB = 5.75GB, so technically it would only be .25GB missing if this isn't some sort of other technical stuff going on.

Marine-RX179 · 2 Jun 2015 at 13:08

Tom B said:
If it gets ~97% of TX performance... does it really matter?

For practical usage having 500MB less vram out of the 6GB usabled by games is probably not so much of an issue, but from marketing the card's vram amount point of view as a business, they are really taking a mick...

Just think of those times you order a large fries from McDs, but the content you received is of the regular fries size...

I definitely remember the many occassions of at the McDs starring at my large fries that's the size of regular fries, shaking my fist and thinking to myself "You call this a large fries? Are you kidding me!?"

Martini1991 · 2 Jun 2015 at 13:09

Oh dear.

layte · 2 Jun 2015 at 13:11

Phixsator said:
No my only display is connected to the 980ti.. ill redo the the tests with some a proper gpuz window next to it for validation reasons.

Well that completely invalidates your test then. As any memory assigned to the DWM will need to be swapped.

Phixsator · 2 Jun 2015 at 13:11

i have updated the OP with a new run..

layte said:
Well that completely invalidates your test then.

please explain why that is? cause if there is any way this is not true i would very much like to confirm that

ADT · 2 Jun 2015 at 13:11

What do all these numbers mean?