MSI LAPTOPS WITH 970S i

16979 · 13 Feb 2015 at 18:36

just wondering with the problems with the NVidia 970s how does that effect msi laptops with 970s in them ??

Doogles · 13 Feb 2015 at 19:28

Not sure but the mobile counterpart of the GTX 970 would be different I would have thought.

nightmare99 · 13 Feb 2015 at 20:26

What problems?

spoffle · 13 Feb 2015 at 20:29

The 970m isn't affected by the issues because it's running on a narrower memory bus with less VRAM than the desktop configuration of the 979, so it'll be fine.

nightmare99 said:
What problems?

The last 500MB~ of VRAM and its speed problems, as well as the effective reduced memory bandwidth in total.

Meaker · 13 Feb 2015 at 21:35

The 6 gig version has more vram.

The memory is a single block on all mobile chips as memory controllers are either fully enabled or fully disabled.

spoffle · 13 Feb 2015 at 22:44

The 970m has a 192 bit memory bus, the 980m has a 256 bit memory bus.

Incidentally the 970m's bandwidth is proportionally less (3/4 that of a 980m).

Which implies that it's addressing 3/4 the amount of RAM chips compared to a 980m. So a 6GB one will be using memory chips at double the density, which again means it's not an issue.

Really, they should have just arranged it like that for the desktop 970.

nightmare99 · 15 Feb 2015 at 12:34

The last 500MB~ of VRAM and its speed problems, as well as the effective reduced memory bandwidth in total.

Oh ok I thought that was by design.

MOOGLEYS · 15 Feb 2015 at 15:29

Neither the 970M or 980M suffer from the issue.