NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 Specs Leak

Probably because it can't fully utilize 4gb of vram. They will probably release them later. Some people usually fall for the double vram scam anyway.

 

It was written with capital letters too, GTX.

 

Oh this again.
Lol you SLI two of these badboys and see how hard you're running into vRAM limitations with the latest games. People are bitching already about the 970 and its 3.5 vRAM issue. Two of these cards might actually be on par with 970 performance, so you are seriously underestimating the potential of these cards.

The statement "it can't fully utilize 4gb of vram" is absolute and complete bollocks. Right there.

 

You really think a 128bit 960 can fully utilize 4gb of vram?

 

Dude wtf are you even talking about. What does it mean, "it can't fully utilize". Are you saying there would be 4GB on the card but it can only allocate 3 or something? Seriously now.

For crying out loud, run any game, AC:U, shadow of Mordor, Far cry 4 @ 1080p on an SLI setup with 2 x 960GTX 4GB and i GUARENTEE you it will max out its memory. At the very least it'll use 3GB. If you can't see that then you are seriously living under a rock or you have never monitored your vRAM usage in the latest games.

 

Fully utilize meaning using all your vram and having acceptable framerates. I would rather game with 2gb used 60fps than 30 with 4gb. Although some people are into loading up all vram regardless of how bad the framerate is. That 970 vram problem troll thread was closed because it had no basis in fact.

 

I have no doubt whatsoever that 2 x 960GTX can play any game at 1080p at acceptable frame rates. The latest games, they all max out 4GB on the 970GTX and 980GTX. It can and it will be utilized.

If there is an SLI review for these cards, then mark my words there will be a word on vRAM limitation in the review.

 

oh geez. more of this "GTX970 VRAM issue" crap.....

Being able to load the memory and being able to actually process the data in a reasonable amount of time, are 2 completely different things. There were 2GB versions of the GT220, but it was well known that the GT220 wasn't fast enough to process 2GB worth of texture data "on the fly" as would be necessary while gaming. In this case, it's doubtful that the GTX960 would be fast enough to process 4GB worth of texture data "on the fly", which could be considered as an inability to "fully utilize 4GB of VRAM".

GTX660SLI can play any game at acceptable framerates. It's just a matter of finding the proper settings.

 

Let's say GTX960 have memory bandwidth 112GB/s and presume it has 4GB of vram. You take game which can utilize up to 4GB of vram.
On certain settings GPU has to process 1.2GB of data per frame. If GPU is powerful enough card will render up to 93 frames/s.
Because 112GB/s divided by 1.2GB leaves you with 93/s and that means that you can only 93 times load required data to GPU per second.
With 2GB required per frame you go down to 56fps.
If you pair GM200 super powerful GPU with 128bit bus capable to deliver only 112GB/s, then magically giving it 8GB of vram and using 4GB per frame. You end up with 28fps as GPU would have to wait for texture and other data delivery.

In other words, Benchmark which in total utilizes 600MB of vRAM and uses 350MB per frame at most is not capable to reveal bandwidth limitation.

 

I thought everybody knew what fully utilize means? Guess I was wrong.

 

You should know better than to assume at this point. Just look at that stupid thread about 970 vram limitation. It was full of stupidity.

 

Think that was more trolling than stupidity. No dought stupidity was involved though. There is another 970 vram thread and that guy was the second poster.

 

And that poster is too stupid to realize that the issue he's posting is SteamOS (Linux) itself and not the graphics card.

 

Monchis and Vulture reported for trolling. That makes 3 in a row for VultureX. I'm sure there will be more. Probably dupes as well.

Hilbert has already warned him at least once. So he's been given chances.

 

Well if it is a legitimate thread, I can see why he is asking. But I have my doubts about vram threads nowadays.

 

Not everyone is familiar with SteamOS, or Linux in general. As such, not everyone is aware that Linux doesn't keep up with hardware and tends to improperly identify a lot of newer hardware.

 

Also the drivers under Linux are also different which could be part of the problem as well.

 

It's been ongoing for so long that we're prob at the stage where people are just gonna automatically hit report without thinking twice.
I guess it happens eventually... I digress....

Back OT...

 

Every thread here is turning into trolling. What's happening to you people...

 

Vram trolls happened. Every memory related thread goes to crap with misinformation.