gtx 970

[garjac]

looking at getting one of these two cards palit gtx970 jetstream or the new evga with silent fan upto 60c

any help please thanks.

[Agrippa]

Get the ASUS Strix, MSI G4 or Gigabyte G1. The former two are both silent up to sixty-odd C and the fans are less noisy than the EVGA when they do eventually begin to spin. The Palit I don't know at all, but the ASUS, MSI and Gigabyte cards are pretty unanimously considered the cream of the crop.

[sweey]

I bought an MSI Gaming card for someone recently and I'm impressed with just how quiet it is in operation.

[Falc]

I'm planning on getting an MSI GTC 970, I did a fair amount of research and it seems to have good scores in performance/temperature/noise wise.

Here is a guide I found on another forum: http://i.imgur.com/oRTysVN.png

[jigger]

I would avoid the GTX 970

https://forums.geforce.com/default/t...-vram-issue/1/

[MrRockliffe]

The 970 is still the same card that people reviewed when it came out, and still performs the same. No one has complained about the performance of it, they just noted that frame times aren't as good as they should be in some situations, and that memory speed drops significantly when using ~3.5 GB of VRAM.

That being said, I'd rather wait to see what AMD introduces, especially with Freesync.

[Agrippa]

The 970 is still the same card that people reviewed when it came out, and still performs the same.

Exactly. The sky is not falling and the card performs exactly the same as it did last week, before we knew how Nvidia have designed it.

Read TechReport's or Guru 3D's articles on the issue, not kilometre-long forum threads full of panic, speculation and OMG!!!!! OMG!!!!!.

TL;DR:

"Utilizing graphics memory after 3.5 GB can result into performance issues as the card needs to manage some really weird stuff in memory, it's nearly load-balancing. But fact remains it seems to be handling that well, it’s hard to detect and replicate oddities.

Until further notice our recommendation on the GeForce GTX 970 stands as it was, for the money it is an excellent performer. But it should have been called a 3.5 GB card with a 512MB L3 GDDR5 cache buffer."

[starkyller]

Very funny videos about it

[outwar6010]

I was playing with dying light and was getting weird frames so decided to run afterburner and saw that outside it was using 3546meg of vram. I'm playing at 1440p so it might be worth it if you game at 1080p or below. Tbh it really has ruined nvidias rep for me and I am worried about future games. http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfile.../?id=386577748http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfile.../?id=386577701http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfile.../?id=386577701

[jim]

duplicate threads merged

[abs_rio]

I was just wondering how much vram is available when the 970 is in SLI? Double?

[shaithis]

I was just wondering how much vram is available when the 970 is in SLI? Double?

Yes and No.

RAM is used on both cards but the majority of the data they hold is duplicated, so you gain no extra RAM compared to a single card.

[MrRockliffe]

I believe with crossfire it's a different story. I think it doubles the available memory.

Edit: News article I read had a misleading title. Someone at AMD is looking into the possibility of having the combined VRAM.

[kalniel]

I believe with crossfire it's a different story. I think it doubles the available memory.

It doubles the available memory and you need to store twice as much data (one copy for each card), so the effective memory is the same as with SLI, ie no more than a single card.

[starkyller]

what about the gtx970m 6gb will it be affected to (using only 3.5gb)?

[kalniel]

what about the gtx970m 6gb will it be affected to (using only 3.5gb)?

No, the 970M has additional units disabled (192bit interface) so doesn't need to share a memory controller. Essentially the 970M is consistantly slower.