Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor GeForce GTX 970 VRAM stress test

the card was SOOO bad, that you returned it.
just asking: then why did you buy it in the first place??

 

Because i thought i have 4gb of vram at full speed.i gonna wait for cards with bigger vram.not going to buy gtx 980.

 

but this is a apologist in the wild

 

HAHAHAHAHAHAH

it has 6 gig o ram technically

 

Just for your information:
http://www.geforce.com/hardware/desktop-gpus/geforce-gtx-970/specifications
http://www.geforce.com/hardware/desktop-gpus/geforce-gtx-980/specifications

Both still state 224GB/s while memories operate at same frequency. I guess you know that this bandwidth is reached by accessing all memory chips in parallel.
That is true for 8 chips on 980, but only for 7 chips on 970. And if you try to access all 8 at same time...
Even here we have customer protection against "false advertising".

 

If I had 970, I could get full refund. But that is where it ends.
If false information goes unnoticed, then you have even millions of victims.
If I knew about such thing and lied for profit or benefits, I would feel ashamed.

That being said, everyone involved should reflect upon themselves...

 

Now that i got ridded of the gtx 970 and got full refund i wish that some new cards arraive to the market.i can buy r9 290x 8gb but it is based on an old architecture.don't get me wrong.i am very very glad that i no longer have the gtx 970 but it is annoying that there are no choises at the moment.

 

SHOCKING interview with Nvidia engineer about the 970 fiasco

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spZJrsssPA0

 

Hilarious video dude.

Haha.. "thinking that "4GB" will be future proof" hahaahahha rofl.

 

I have to admit, I rofl'ed... :giggle2:

 

Me too. Hilarious video dude.

 

and given that the reviewers, who's job it is to test and review the product couldn't pull up any issues with the card goes to show what a total and utter load of bullsh*t is being made out of nothing. I am pretty sure that a number of test reviewers would have done 4k tests as well as Sli tests on these cards at launch under a number of different loads and settings yet none of them found anything a miss.

Conclusions,

1). a whole bunch of 970 owners are making mountains out of molehills
2). Every reviewer in the world is being paid off by Nvidia to hide any issues they find.

If anyone thinks 2). sounds a bit stupid then please take a look at some posts by 970 owners who suddenly think their card is cr*p, who are happy that they get to refund an otherwise fantastic card, who think they are entitled to some sort of compensation, who think they should get a free game and the stupidest / funniest so far that they should either get a discounted or free upgrade to a 980Gtx.

but that Nvidia engineer video was pretty damn funny though.

 

Idk, how many reviewers are intentionally forcing the 970 to go over 3.5GB while monitoring FCAT? And those frame time problems are apparently blown out even more when you run them in SLI.

I don't think reviewers are testing every possible scenario. Look at the ROG Swift -- 99.9% of the screens have massive inversion problems and yet only one review even mentioned it and wasn't even critical of it.

 

Hah

Yes it has been funny to read all these many pages of bragging here about an issue which is extremely difficult to reproduce and took like 4 months to find. Yes there is a minor glitch with specs BUT:

1. Everybody bought the card based on performance test results
2. Tests, (even done here) clearly state that this card was/is for this price still a no-brainer
4. I, like majority of people here, have had zero issues with the card

Would be nice to get some compensation of course, but come on, even Apple has lied more about their specs and done so more than once.

 

This mostly only affects 4K + SLI users so (or in cases where you go over the 3.5GB threshold even with a single card), the rest can stay happy.

 

posted this last weekend on another site taken from the nv site when this started to go bad

GTX 980 Memory Specs:
7.0 GbpsMemory Clock
4 GBStandard Memory Config
GDDR5Memory Interface
256-bitMemory Interface Width
224


GTX 970 Memory Specs:
7.0 GbpsMemory Clock
4 GBStandard Memory Config
GDDR5Memory Interface
256-bitMemory Interface Width
224Memory Bandwidth (GB/sec)

nv states memory config. is the same in the spec's so the 970 & 980 should work the same .
then nv states well it's not really the same because the gtx970 have some parts cut so we used 3.5 + .5gb is that 4 GBStandard Memory Config ????

 

And yet the internet is ablaze with troll and whine posts, youtube videos, AMD making new marketing adverts over it?

Talk about hysteria where its not merrited.

What else has Nvidia done? Maybe they also won the tour de france a bunch of times and it will be discovered they were doping?

That's what this all reminds me of.. an issue where everyone and their dog is piling on to it, for whatever reason(s) they have, I dunno, because its cool to? kinda like how everyone piled onto Ubisoft for AC:U..


Its sad to see also how this forum and reddit is non-stop talk about this issue, and that 970 users are actually insane enough to wish to return the card if not just chucking it out the window. Idiots.

 

Well maybe it is merited? Kinda big thing they did actually, and especially if it's found out, things are bound to get crazy lol. But it'll settle down.

Well.. those single card 970 users might face issues when games with higher demands on VRAM come out.. then there may be issues, I'd be wary of that too tbh.. And maybe even a bit worried. Because I wouldn't have to have a crippled card with 3.5GB (real) VRAM.

 

To sum it up

The issue with the 970Gtx only became an issue when someone somewhere told everyone else that it was an issue. The shocking thing is the number of idiots jumping on the bandwagon.

Look at the forums here, until a few days ago their is little if any people complaining about the 970Gtx. Such a huge issue that no one knew or cared about it until they were told to care about it.