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My cards do that and I always thought it was my over clock!
Will have to do some testing later.
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970's having performance issues using 4GB Vram - Nvidia investigating
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My cards do that and I always thought it was my over clock!
Will have to do some testing later.
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Someone I know on another forum suggested the problem could be dependent on what part of the GM204 die is defective? After all the GTX970 does use GM204 dies which cannot be used for GTX980 cards.
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COD AW is the reason I sold my 7990 and got two 970's.
I couldn't play the game at all on the 7990. Even the cut scenes were barely watchable (stuttering and the sound was about 2 seconds out of sync).
It now plays perfectly on my 970's.
I couldn't play the game at all on the 7990. Even the cut scenes were barely watchable (stuttering and the sound was about 2 seconds out of sync).
It now plays perfectly on my 970's.
no problem playing cod aw here also, 970 sli 2560x1440 never drops below 100 fps
Noticed that the 980 would use 4GB but the 970 would not go over 3.5GB.
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This^^, and not withstanding the coil whine. Also FCAT frame drops that was designed to show up AMD - are evident on the 9 series cards as shown by guru 3D.
If this was an AMD card I imagine the thread would be full of much more hate.
Lots of ear cupping and laaaa laaa laaaa laaaal laaaa here!
34 pages......and, well......I am confused.
Do we actually have an issue or not? Seems that whatever is going on has indeed been over hyped.....but, I would like to know if there is a fundamental problem or not with the hardware itself.
Are there any tests at 1080P that I can do to help try and diagnose? I am not 4K now but I do scale BF4 higher using DSR rather than AA etc and have noticed some bumpiness but never dug deeper. I always assumed it was my mid-tier setup.
If its down to the memory setup, I would like to know for sure.
Heck, I know these cards can't be perfect and we all did succumb to crazy hype....but if nVidia start to play on technicalities to hide a wee slippy number they tried, that wouldn't be cool
J
Do we actually have an issue or not? Seems that whatever is going on has indeed been over hyped.....but, I would like to know if there is a fundamental problem or not with the hardware itself.
Are there any tests at 1080P that I can do to help try and diagnose? I am not 4K now but I do scale BF4 higher using DSR rather than AA etc and have noticed some bumpiness but never dug deeper. I always assumed it was my mid-tier setup.
If its down to the memory setup, I would like to know for sure.
Heck, I know these cards can't be perfect and we all did succumb to crazy hype....but if nVidia start to play on technicalities to hide a wee slippy number they tried, that wouldn't be cool
J
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Why is the CPU load so different though?
Maybe down to having to swap more stuff in and out of Vram.
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Buddy I'm in the same boat as you, others seem to suggest there's no problem and they're working the way it's intended to work where as I still don't know why my games become an utter stutter fest as soon as I hit anywhere over 3.5gb.
I took my 1 of my cards out and tested them one by one and still get the same so I replaced the cards with my 290 and reinstalled all the drivers etc etc and tested the games again and they run smoother on the same settings when using ram over 3.5gb.
Think I've shot myself in the foot by replacing my 290 and going SLI instead of Crossfire which is a shame as I really liked not having to worry about my temps
You're joking right; Nvidia would either ignore this or sweep it under the rug like they tried with bumpgate.
They still fully didn't admit they were at fault; *even after found guilty along with HP* they knew full well what they were doing; they cut corners on shoddy balling and it came back to bite them.
I personally reballed and reflowed a couple thousand laptops because of it; it was also issue that plagued PS3....originally....
Nvidia won't fix it until they are forced to
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I'll preface this by saying I own AMD GPU's and an Nvidia 980 GTX, so try not to pass this off as bias.
But there do seem to be a lot of people almost letting Nvidia off here, whereas if this was an AMD issue the outcry would be insane.
But there do seem to be a lot of people almost letting Nvidia off here, whereas if this was an AMD issue the outcry would be insane.
i had 2 msi gtx 970 both in single and sli i experianced stutter , i spent 3 months messing with drivers / win installs / bios gpx card and got them better but it was still there .. the only time i seen stutter like what i experianced is when your out of vram / loading textures. I noticed it was hard to push card over 3.5gb and generally over 3.2 is where it would start , in the end i sold them bought a galax 980 of overclockers. Best thing i did in all honesty everything works and i can now just enjoy my pc (finally)
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Even the R9 290/R9 290X issue was made much bigger by Nvidia seeding free cards to reviewers and then asking them to test in quiet mode,so there was a financial incentive for certain review sites to make a bigger deal of things.
Until the tech press gets more involved in this,it has every chance of being swept under the carpet.
Bumpgate was swept under the carpet since there was hardly any coverage of it.
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Compare this to the camera review websites.
Even if big companies like Nikon and Canon have issues they will make sure people know about it and even do in-depth analysis.
The computer parts review industry is fast heading towards what the game review industry is now ATM.
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I don't even know what "Bumpgate" is
Similar to me. Generally have to lower settings far below what I would have thought necessary, and just haven't quite found 970 sli to be that great.
I had put it down to drivers, thinking it would get better, and even thought maybe I do need just a little more grunt, and was about to buy a third.
Now holding off, thinking will either go for some 8gb 290x's, or go down to one card and wait for next release.
Just want some good hard clarification from someone reputable whether or not there is a performance issue going over 3.5GB.
I didn't epxect that the 970 would have so much less bandwidth. As I was going 4K, it would have made me think twice about a 970.
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