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970's having performance issues using 4GB Vram - Nvidia investigating
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Someone on Guru3D came up with the same hypothesis.
In the game it just appears as a stutter. Powerplay recorded the glitch.
Soldato
Would you rather I lied?
Soldato
I think you mean Shadowplay.
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I ran that bench on my GTX 980 (yes 980) and mine also dips at around 3.4GB.
Gaming though I have not had a single issue, the cards have been running perfectly when all 4GB of VRAM is used, and the cards have spent the majority of their time at 3.5 to 4GB of VRAM usage (about 3 months I've had these).
Playing Shadow of Mordor at 1080p with ultra textures is silky smooth and has no frame rate drops at all, that game with ultra textures permanently sticks to 3.8GB to 4GB of VRAM and I have put around 35hrs into it with the 980's.
Watch Dogs also runs fine with 3.5 to 4GB of VRAM used, as well as many other VRAM demanding games I have ran in the last few months.
Considering my gaming performance with 4GB of VRAM used has been flawless, I am completely ignoring this benchmark result.
Edit - Just though I would add that before I ran the bench Windows 8.1 was using around 450MB of VRAM.
That's why you have to run the benchmark in headless mode (ie, no monitor attached).
Soldato
If it was AMD product with that defect, there would be people with torches on the streets asking for the company to be crucified.
However, I read here "is a feature, we are OK" or "not needed so much vram", "irrelevant to every day use" even from others "AMD fanboy hate rumours".
Heheheh
However, I read here "is a feature, we are OK" or "not needed so much vram", "irrelevant to every day use" even from others "AMD fanboy hate rumours".
Where's gregster these days
Heheheh
Soldato
wasnt particularly relevant the first time that meme was posted.
Anyway we need more FC4 testing. i cannot replicate the hitching and nose dive in performance in other games. I dont have FC4 unfortunately.
Anyway we need more FC4 testing. i cannot replicate the hitching and nose dive in performance in other games. I dont have FC4 unfortunately.
Soldato
Where's gregster these days
TBH I'm pretty sure he won't care. He owns Titans, doesn't have to play with mid ranged parts.
I bought my TBs about two weeks before the 970 and 980 launched. The only regret? I could have had three 970s for the price I paid.
Thing is, what use is 3.5gb VRAM over three GPUs for 4k? it's ruddy useless is what it is.
God, I really, truly dodged a bullet there
If it was AMD product with that defect, there would be people with torches on the streets asking for the company to be crucified.
However, I read here "is a feature, we are OK" or "not needed so much vram", "irrelevant to every day use" even from others "AMD fanboy hate rumours".
Heheheh
AMD gets a lot of flak for their coolers, but atleast we get fully functional RAM, PCBs and Cores. And are advertised as such,
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If it was AMD product with that defect, there would be people with torches on the streets asking for the company to be crucified.
However, I read here "is a feature, we are OK" or "not needed so much vram", "irrelevant to every day use" even from others "AMD fanboy hate rumours".
Heheheh
One thing I can credit AMD for (and it's probably only the one lmao) is that they've never been tight with memory controllers or actual VRAM.
It's something people don't realise the importance of.
TBH I'm pretty sure he won't care. He owns Titans, doesn't have to play with mid ranged parts.
I bought my TBs about two weeks before the 970 and 980 launched. The only regret? I could have had three 970s for the price I paid.
Thing is, what use is 3.5gb VRAM over three GPUs for 4k? it's ruddy useless is what it is.
God, I really, truly dodged a bullet there
GK110s, beast graphics cards. But these 900 series cards have made a new breed of uneducated fanbois who read all these 970 vs 290 threads where people will say 970 ALL DAY. It has led me to hate these cards with a passion, not to mention the gimped bus width.
And as much as people hate to admit it (and wont 90% of the time) firestrike reflects gameplay performance to a certain extent and 290xs and 290s seem to score better on average, atleast my cards do
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Soldato
GK110s, beast graphics cards. But these 900 series cards have made a new breed of uneducated fanbois who read all these 970 vs 290 threads where people will say 970 ALL DAY. It has led me to hate these cards with a passion, not to mention the gimped bus width.
And as much as people hate to admit it (and wont 90% of the time) firestrike reflects gameplay performance to a certain extent and 290xs and 290s seem to score better on average, atleast my cards do
shhh don't burst bubbles.
And please do not mention the "money saving from electricity"
Soldato
u guys r so mean
i refuse to join in ur mocking of nvidia!
Is the best we can do, other than support a class action and close them down..........
AMD gets a lot of flak for their coolers, but atleast we get fully functional RAM, PCBs and Cores. And are advertised as such,
I had a 970 but sent it back. I'm glad I did now. Just gutted that I gave away one of my 5850's as I'm now stuck with one and performance is lacking!
shhh don't burst bubbles.
And please do not mention the "money saving from electricity"
Oh yes the electricity... Its only a matter of years till you'd make up for the cheaper price of the 290 because of its power consumption
Are you a lawyer? Obviously not. If this snowballs, your argument is deeply flawed on every level. I don't know how many times it needs to be said, but if the card cannot utilise 4GB RAM without falling over itself, then you do not have 4GB of usable RAM, because once you get over 3.5 and a game tries to access the remaining 0.5, it will stutter and (can) become unplayable. How is this remotely acceptable? As more games demand that level of RAM, this problem is only going to escalate... GTAV people? A storm is coming...
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