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The GTX 970's Memory Explained & Tested (Comment Thread)

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Interesting post by Jen Hsun. In all reality people will agree and some won't. It is a polarizing topic.
 
Desiato said:
Your obsession with nvidia makes me think you may be a paid shill.
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Unfortunately everyone at some point takes things too far. I've made my warnings to those parties involved. Lets keep the comments to the topic at hand. If people step out of those bounds they will be dealt with accordingly.

-ST
 
SKYMTL said:
Interesting post by Jen Hsun. In all reality people will agree and some won't. It is a polarizing topic.
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I only agreed with the last part of his statement where he finally breaks down and says they won't let it happen again.

As an owner of a number of each vendor's video cards I can only say that in the future I won't be an early adopter and will quell my ADHD impulse buying habits until things get tested, re-tested, and re-re-tested by both reviewers and owners prior to deciding to upgrade.

Though I have to admit I am wholeheartedly impressed with my 1.6Ghz capable MSI Golden Edition GTX 970 right now, and am looking forward to opening the second for an SLi system in the compact NZXT S340 case.

EDIT: After opening up the second adapter these cards are the real deal. Initial OC was over 1.55Ghz without spending much time on the OC with MSI AfterBurner. Very impressive.

Now where is that 4K monitor of mine?
 
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So guys...im gonna buy Gtx 970 next month...will i have any stutter in games when they pass over 3.5gb of Vram usage or what? I have seen a lot of video testing on youtube especially from this guy(https://www.youtube.com/user/ArT1S/videos) using over 3.5gb Vram without problems at all...! Please help me decide because 350-400 euro is a lot of money...and i dont want to throw them like this...thanks
 
Heyyo,

Stefanosgr18 said:
So guys...im gonna buy Gtx 970 next month...will i have any stutter in games when they pass over 3.5gb of Vram usage or what? I have seen a lot of video testing on youtube especially from this guy(https://www.youtube.com/user/ArT1S/videos) using over 3.5gb Vram without problems at all...! Please help me decide because 350-400 euro is a lot of money...and i dont want to throw them like this...thanks
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It's mixed depending on who you talk to tbh... I've seen videos of people playing Far Cry 4 with 4GB load and it's fine, I've seen others complain they can't get above 3.5GB... in reality? The card can do 4GB load but it'll have slightly slower overall performance.. maybe 5% or so.

With that in mind? If you're pushing your games to use over 3.5GB like GTA V? Your GPU wouldn't be able to meet that demand anyways and your framerate would be below 60fps average.

If you want to play it safe? Check out the AMD R9 390. It's essentially the same price and performance.

A good review to check out of the R9 390:
AMD Radeon R9 390 8GB review • Eurogamer.net

Plus a JayzTwoCents video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9cKZiJw6Pk

Finally, price comparisons between the R9 390 and GTX 970. The first few 970's are the stock reference blower design instead of the better non-reference btw:
Choose A Video Card - PCPartPicker United Kingdom

The Gigabyte and MSI R9 390's would be the two I'd focus on purchasing.
 
First of all thanks for replying dude! I really aprecciate it...yea i have seen these videos too...but all im talking about in here is not losing 5 or 10 FPS when using over 3.5Gb of Vram...all im talking about and want to find out(because i want to buy this card) is if you use over 3.5Gb of Vram will games stutter? Its all about stutter or not...i think that they sorted out these issues with stutters with drivers update but im not sure...https://www.youtube.com/user/ArT1S/videos
Check his videos...he is using over 3.5Gb of Vram and he doesnt get any stutter...actually he doesnt even get that much FPS loss...of course he is losing some FPS...because he is pushing the card to its limits...but i dont see any problems with this card anymore.Please help :( I dont care getting below 60fps for example when i use over 3.5Gb of Vram...i just wanna know if it runs smooth without Hip-cups / stutter :)
P.s I know 390 is better in performance but i dont want to buy this card i just want Gtx 970 (if it doesnt have these stutters when using over 3.5Gb of Vram)
 
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Heyyo,

The problem with recorded game footage? It records at a constant framerate. So even if it drops below 60fps it just "redraws" that same frame so micro-stutter isn't properly charted... The best example they could have done is a chart that shows frametime variance.

Here's what I mean:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtWL3D9ZL3Q

That video is seven months old tbh so I'm unsure if drivers have been tweaked since them or not... maybe someone who owns a GTX 970 on here can give us some info on how frametime variance acts on their GPU???
 
I contacted with this guy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPmH5tEc524 ...he tested the game and he told me that his frametimes are alright and he is having a smooth gameplay using over 3.7-3.8 of Vram usage on High-Ultra settings on Gta v ...so...? I think its fine yea...no microstutter either...And for the video you posted above...i didnt see any problem :P Did you? :/ Thanks a lot dude helping me with this...P.s.The article in the description of the video you sent me is really awesome...so yea drivers are very important managing that 0.5 Gb of Vram...and yes Nvidia did very well by far...Gtx 970 performs as it should...i dont know though if i really really want to commit with this card...its a lot of money...and i dont want to buy a card which will expire in 1 or 2 years by now with new games...:P So in conclusion i can say that its in Developers and Nvidias drivers hand to make sure that GTX 970 wont have a problem with that last 0.5Gb of Vram when needs to be used. by far there are no problems...but we will see in the future with new games...
 
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Remember your resolution plans as well, in case you might go higher than 1080p in the same timeframe as you own the 970. I have the MSI 970 and I don't have the hardware to go higher than 1080, nor do I want to after seeing how gtav, Witcher 3, Arkham Knight, and Mad Max runs. They can maintain 60fps but I certainly can't turn anti aliasing up very high along with everything else (cpu is a i5 3570k stock).
 
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