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

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RavenXXX2 said:
Can't see how anyone can defend Nvidia on this. They gave out false specs, sell a card advertised as 4GB but can only use 3.5 optimally. They only own up when the consumer see through their BS.

If this were AMD we would have them burning at the stake already.
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The Running Man said:
The question is why when nvidia tech saw their marketing teams gaffe did they not correct at that point. Clearly they knew and were able to articulate the answer right away. I think they were hoping no one would notice.
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and when they were caught out - they said it was a `mis-communication` rather than ** No disguised swearing, all swearing must be fully starred out **
 
mmj_uk said:
The same could be said of 295X being advertised as an 8GB card.

GTX970 has 4GB of RAM just the same as we always thought, the only difference being that we now know 0.5GB of it is partitioned and has a small performance impact compared to GTX980 (4-6%), you get a bigger performance loss than that from the reduction in CUDA cores.
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Actually no it cannot.. the 295x2 have 8 gigs of 100% performing memory. You can argue the pr spin on it but its not the same as this issue and its not false advertising. The 970 issue is false advertising, not the amount of vram but the speed that it says on the box. That last 512 meg is certainly not operating at full speed according to the specs on the box. How this has slipped under nVidias radar is very weird or even the board vendors. I certainly hope for all the 970 users that it will be fixed. Very happy i stuck to my 780 right now.
 
Phixsator said:
Actually no it cannot.. the 295x2 have 8 gigs of 100% performing memory. You can argue the pr spin on it but its not the same as this issue and its not false advertising. The 970 issue is false advertising, not the amount of vram but the speed that it says on the box. That last 512 meg is certainly not operating at full speed according to the specs on the box. How this has slipped under nVidias radar is very weird or even the board vendors. I certainly hope for all the 970 users that it will be fixed. Very happy i stuck to my 780 right now.
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it cant be - its a hardware issue that drivers cannot fully solve - look at AMD and the core scheduling it needed , that didn't boost it much
 
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I'm highly skeptical that this was purely down to an oversight on the part of the marketing team. As someone else said earlier, Nvidia must have noticed even if it was a marketing error, and decided to keep on marketing the cards as such. Disappointing.
 
TheRealDeal said:
When you say cooler card what do you mean? My 290 pcs+ does not break 65oc at load with clocks of 1100/1400. It idles at 33oc. I doubt the gtx970 is much cooler. If you mean the overall heat output then sure the gtx970 wins with lower power.
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Wow didnt realise they were that cool. Sod I'll order a 290x now! Cheers man
 
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