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I have a GTX 970 and have not yet noticed any issues as a result of that memory issue. Maybe I'm not pushing the card hard enough...

by nness 10y ago

frik 10y ago
Weird comment. Like a grandma driving a Ferrari with a broken gearbox: "I am perfectly fine driving at moderate speed, maybe I am not pushing the car hard enough. I am perfectly fine that the mechanic deactivated the malfunctioning higher gears". You may not notice it nowadays because several games received patches and newer nVidia drivers limit the memory consumption to just below 3.5 GB. Otherwise you would experience a major slowdown. Also a major problem for CUDA.
- mynameisvlad 10y ago
  If games truly don't need access to the last .5GB (and they seem to not in most cases if there's patches there) and all the parent does is game (which is what I do on my 970) then why would it even matter if the last .5GB is slow, or that the card wasn't being "pushed hard enough"? It's a gaming card, and using it for gaming seems to be working just fine, in my anecdotal experience at least. Gaming benchmarks have also been great for the card. Just because not everyone writes CUDA applications that need access to all 4GB does not mean that people are using it wrong, or that they should mind that the last .5GB is slow. If it works for others' use then that's great for them.
- ozi 10y ago
  I see you point, but I use a 970 and just finished Dark Souls 3 on max settings without a single hiccup. No doubt that with future games the 970 will not perform as well as it should, but I will have a different card by then. What they did is a shame and shouldn't happen again, but I haven't noticed any real-world ramifications yet.
  - sqldba 10y ago
    How was DS3? I liked DS but haven't tried DS2 yet.
    - ozi 10y ago
      It's amazing(ly frustrating).
gambiting 10y ago
Nope, you are not. Write a basic CUDA application that uses all 4GB of vram, you will see the difference in access speed as soon as you cross 3.5GB.
wnevets 10y ago
driver update prevents the card from using the last 0.5 GB IIRC

I have a GTX 970 and have not yet noticed any issues as a result of that memory issue. Maybe I'm not pushing the card hard enough...

by nness 10y ago

I have a GTX 970 and have not yet noticed any issues as a result of that memory issue. Maybe I'm not pushing the card hard enough...

frik 10y ago

Weird comment. Like a grandma driving a Ferrari with a broken gearbox: "I am perfectly fine driving at moderate speed, maybe I am not pushing the car hard enough. I am perfectly fine that the mechanic deactivated the malfunctioning higher gears". You may not notice it nowadays because several games received patches and newer nVidia drivers limit the memory consumption to just below 3.5 GB. Otherwise you would experience a major slowdown. Also a major problem for CUDA.

mynameisvlad 10y ago
If games truly don't need access to the last .5GB (and they seem to not in most cases if there's patches there) and all the parent does is game (which is what I do on my 970) then why would it even matter if the last .5GB is slow, or that the card wasn't being "pushed hard enough"? It's a gaming card, and using it for gaming seems to be working just fine, in my anecdotal experience at least. Gaming benchmarks have also been great for the card. Just because not everyone writes CUDA applications that need access to all 4GB does not mean that people are using it wrong, or that they should mind that the last .5GB is slow. If it works for others' use then that's great for them.
ozi 10y ago
I see you point, but I use a 970 and just finished Dark Souls 3 on max settings without a single hiccup. No doubt that with future games the 970 will not perform as well as it should, but I will have a different card by then. What they did is a shame and shouldn't happen again, but I haven't noticed any real-world ramifications yet.
- sqldba 10y ago
  How was DS3? I liked DS but haven't tried DS2 yet.
  - ozi 10y ago
    It's amazing(ly frustrating).

gambiting 10y ago

Nope, you are not. Write a basic CUDA application that uses all 4GB of vram, you will see the difference in access speed as soon as you cross 3.5GB.

wnevets 10y ago

driver update prevents the card from using the last 0.5 GB IIRC