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

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Sin_Chase said:
Have you even read the thread?!

What on earth has this thread got to do with a 980, or any other 4GB card for that matter? Absolutely nothing.

This is about a uniquely 970 problem.
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Yes and one aspect of the debate is "what cards to play anything at max, sli please as the 970 may not cut it due to memory but was the obvious choice until last week?". As a gsync owner I'm asking the same question, just not from the start point of 2 970's.

Sorry
 
I have no issue with returning the card, the only demanding game i was going to buy soon was GTA V anyway.. Pretty sure even my ancient 5870 will handle Killing Floor 2 well enough too.

I'm good for waiting for the 390/390x's. I guess other people are not so lucky because they have to find a powerful replacement card for now.
 
CapitalOne said:
Yes and one aspect of the debate is "what cards to play anything at max, sli please as the 970 may not cut it due to memory but was the obvious choice u til last week?". As a gsync owner I'm asking the same question, just not from the start point of 2 970's.

Sorry
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Buy 980s if you think there is a problem with 970s. Or just buy a second 780Ti and be done with it. You don't HAVE any other options.
 
Gregster said:
I am going by what nVidia have said and whilst there is a case for some people having problems when going between 3.5GB and 4GB, I have not seen enough evidence to prove to me that it is because of the slower memory on the last 0.5gb and nVidia have stated that they will address these things at driver level to give the best gaming performance possible. Of course there could well be an issue but it needs thorough methodical testing and then I will be convinced. Till then, I am on the fence.
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PR's going to PR.
 
he recommends a slower card. if you at 1080 which majority are a 970 is better in literally every game.

look for the next year. only big games are not much spec over what we have now.


1080 970>290
1440 2 980s or 2 290s
4k 3 of what you want or 4.
 
Lock it to 3.5gb via drivers or bios, then in future make them as 3.5gb saving on the 0.5gb then just sell them a bit cheaper.
For people with them already offer a couple of decent games/ instore credit or a full refund or knock a bit off for upgrading to a 980 (so if the 980 you want is £150 more do it for 75 or 100 extra, bit like EVGA's step up but with a bit knocked off)
That's the sort of thing I would like to see anyway
 
Locky said:
No, it's all over the internet as a fail card no matter how fast it is, that hurts resale and sales.
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Sales stats as I can now see for today, more 970's sold today than last Wednesday with 2 hours still left. I can tell you for a fact if at here OcUK the enthusiast etailor is seeing no drop off, then your run of the mill resellers who are not specialist most certainly won't have any decline in sales. I got information from our European HQ and sales are up on last week. So any drop of is minimal and if any company was gonna notice a drop, it would hit OcUK harder due to our specialist nature.

Its not hurting sales that much if at all, because the 970's performance is still stellar. :)

But in fairness 980/290 series sales have absolutely exploded today, if anything all this has done is cause a massive ramp in VGA sales, quite bizarre but maybe people have being on the fence a while or a lot of customers were planning purchases for end of month with it being payday week. All GPU sales are up this week compared to last and that includes the now supposedly useless worth less than £100 970.

Some people on this forum spout some absolute rubbish and are only saying it to try and wind others up and get reactions.

At least I hold the facts. :)
 
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Locky said:
No, it's all over the internet as a fail card no matter how fast it is, that hurts resale and sales.
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im not sure how much consumers really pay attention to tech news
2nd hand i can see it because a techy is more likely to go looking for a used card
 
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