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970's having performance issues using 4GB Vram - Nvidia investigating

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ALXAndy said:
Price is awesome too !

LOL funny how the 8gb AMDs arrived just in time for the Nvidia balls up :D
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yes and there are 2 more 8GB cards coming out soon too, i expect this is because they know about this disaster.... very clever

i wouldn't mind betting the 380X will be released ahead of scedule.... late next week :eek:
 
Dying Light could have performance issues just like FC4, because it's only a day old, but lets hope they dont drag on for so long......... but this doesn't change the fact that time is running out for 4GB cards.
 
eyetrip said:
If nvidia had released 8gb (ok, 7gb) 970's and 980's, would we care quite as much?
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Unlikely as we would really struggle for the most part to utilise that much vram , so it's highly likely it would have slipped away unnoticed or at least enough time would have passed for the, to say you've had the cards a year now what ?
 
JediFragger said:
If their's *any* way at all of AMD doing a paper-launch of the 380X within the next week then they should pull out all the stops to make it happen!! Hell, a tech 'preview' might even do ;) :cool:
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yes, they're probably busy soldering on another 4GB ;) because my guess is they were originally 4GB.....next week is too soon, but it could easily be 2 weeks time..

you're best waiting because the 380X will deffo be a superior card anyway.. well, it'll be newer if that means anything.
 
eyetrip said:
If nvidia had released 8gb (ok, 7gb) 970's and 980's, would we care quite as much?
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Probably not, but there lies the problem: 3.5 is barely (an often not) enough for the many people who got 2 cards to use @ 1440p.
Even 4gb is tight... I don't know what they're waiting for to release 8gb 980s.

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At the same time I think developers are just lazy, Vram requirements have spiked in a ridicolous way in recent times.
 
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Originally Posted by Ayahuasca View Post
Very nice spec, the 970's won't let you down.

we all said that didn't we, it's actually quite sad :(
 
LambChop said:
The quicker NVidia make a statement regarding refunds etc the better. All the qq'ing here is ****ing tedious, the sooner you guys sell up/refund and go to AMD the better.
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With a single 970, it's debatable that you might run out of GPU grunt before reaching the 3.5GB threshold.

It's those that bought 2 for SLi that I feel particularly sorry for. It's something that I've done since the days of the 8800GT - buy two midrange cards and they should see you good for a generation or two. The timing is particularly bad, as games nudging 4GB are starting to appear more regularly.
 
Bonjour said:
With a single 970, it's debatable that you might run out of GPU grunt before reaching the 3.5GB threshold.

It's those that bought 2 for SLi that I feel particularly sorry for. It's something that I've done since the days of the 8800GT - buy two midrange cards and they should see you good for a generation or two. The timing is particularly bad, as games nudging 4GB are starting to appear more regularly.
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I do feel about stuffed ... A moved a from a 780ti to dual 970s to try A.gain more overall frames B.to maintain a decent level of eye candy doing so .

My purchase feels especially wasted now. I would have saved a fair chunk overall staying with my 780ti and grabbing another .
 
Sorry, I don't actually believe the 970 is a mid-range card. It just sounded better than 'buy two one-down-from-the-top-end cards'.
 
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