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I am still owning a GTX970, one of the fans has failed (but then that's just aging), and the last 512MB is awful. Main memory operates at 192Gbps,last block at

I am still owning a GTX970, one of the fans has failed (but then that's just aging), and the last 512MB is awful. Main memory operates at 192Gbps,last block at 28Gbps. It is easily felt, and most GTX970 owners explicitly tried to not use that memory, especially on games that swap assets often (open world games are deadly) The last 512MB bit was mentioned nowhere in benchmarks or marketing material, until people realised something was wrong and nvidia said "teehee woopsies"

izacus 4y ago
I'd love to hear any kind of citation about this "avoiding of last 512MB", because after the initial screaming, the issue kinda disappeared and pretty much every open-world game I threw at it ran just fine on High @ 1080p (or even 1440p in many cases). Sure, the numbers in benchmarks do drop off, but what was the actual effect when you ran an actual game on it? I never had to "avoid" anything and haven't really seen any notes about doing that outside the benchmark readers.