it is said even the GTX600 series would support DX12

heck, even Fermi is rumored to support DX12

as for whether it supports full, i think itll be like DX11 vs DX9 vs DX10 again?

Hello,

I'm sorry that what I wrote was poorly worded, I realize I made it sound like there was a special patch or something and that is definitely not the case. We are always working on new drivers that tune performance and add features, the GTX 970 is no different.

Are you having a specific issue with the 970 that I can help you with? Unfortunately we made an error in the reviewer guide but the GTX 970 is one of the best GPU's we've ever built.
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/nvidia-ge...ions,28464.html
Let me know how I can help.

Peter@nVidia

In other words they're not going to fix it ?  Screw Nvidia I'm going to sell my card if they do not offer fix or refund

Does it have lower benchmark score? No, as far as I can tell.

Benchmark is useless because FPS and stuttering is different. On some games you may have high FPS can get bad stuttering until cannot play. All depends on games, and GTX 980 aren't affected.

We will need to see how far it affected the 4K games.

As far as shikimori's case is concerned, he is running SLI on U2913WM, which is 1080p.
Is the performance affected? Again, which games? Can it be fixed by either firmware or driver?

I realize I made it sound like there was a special patch or something and that is definitely not the case

Already read many reports on the VRAM issue.

http://www.guru3d.com/news-story/middle-ea...tress-test.html

The performance is the same. Still the best bang for a buck card you can get.
Yeah, deal with it.

Same here, and the most unacceptable thing here is nVidia took more than 4 months to realize this issue.

To be honest, I don't feel any bad at all.
Why? It delivers the same result I expected from this card.
Why should I feel sad?

I don't look at the specs alone.
I look at the performance as well.

Look at the performance hit between GTX980 and GTX970.
It makes perfect sense.
So, why should I feel sad? Over that 0.5GB? With the same performance delivered?

http://www.guru3d.com/news-story/middle-ea...tress-test.html

Technically the performance is the same as I first bought it.
Technically it is way way better than any previous generation card (i.e. GTX760) in terms of performance.
Technically it is still the best card in MYR1K category.

So, what's there complain? What options do we have?

Not happy from existing owners? Sell it and get something you happy with.
Not happy from potential buyers? Get something you happy with.

An vid made by pcper, this is a pretty clear explanation on how the memory segmentation works for the gtx970

yeah it's weird, the only reason I guess they dont want to drop the bombshell is to prevent having the mass of gtx 970 being return back to the manufacturers.

So I'm an owner of MSI GTX970 Tiger, after reading some news of the GTX970 memory issue, how will this affect me?

It seems to affect high resolution gaming.. am wondering will it hit me as well? Currently using a shitty 19" monitor for gaming purposes.

Its a hardware design issue right? Means for it to be corrected they will have to change their whole hardware.. can't be corrected by software updates right?

Am currently running games like DragonAge Inq & Bioshock Infinite on highest setting level and it still runs fine.. just wondering what would the impact be after reading up on the latest news.

Dude, you're really having a field day eh? 

Good, pretty much explains everything. Thanks. 

Indeed. 'It is not a bug, it is a feature', said nvidia.

I recalled during Geforce 8800 gtx era, when nvidia forced AIB/OEM and its driver to set GPU fan spins faster so that when the gpu failed, it will be out of warranty period, users were complaining about the loud fan and this was exactly what Nvidia said to press/forum, "'It is not a bug, it is a feature".

AMD also shady company as well....

Promise this and that, never deliver....mostly.
1) Promised 4K H264 DXVA acceleration on existing gpu product, last last said only for GCN 1.2 GPU.
2) Where is the power saving mentioned?
3) Mantle API, said will be release before 2015, until now still not publicly available.
4) Legendary 2D mode flickering, black screen, excessive gpu thermal throttling.

1) No comment on this 
2) 
3) I bought R7 260X specifically for mantle API improvement. Turn out the so called 40% improvement for Battlefield 4 is not really true. Still hoping....
4) Actually, it is hardware issue. In fact, most AMD AIB issued VBIOS to disable the power saving ability for its GPU VRAM. GPU core itself unaffected. Which is back to (2)

Then I bought GTX970 only to discover about the 3.5GB issue few weeks later. 

I think the only purchase that worth my money is Gainward ATI HD 4850 Golden Sample 1GB.

My first gaming GPU is Geforce 8800gts or x, cant remember, it died after 8 months due to bumpgate 

Then I bought the HD4850. (This one still alive and running)

Next, directx11 games are too many, decided to get R7 260X when it was out in the market for its Mantle API claim and FreeSync.
There goes the many issue I encountered until the main issue 2d flickering fixed with VBIOS 3 months ago..... (keeping it in box now)

By the time R7 260X fixed by VBIOS update by disabling VRAM power management.....I bought ASUS GTX970 Styrix lor

Then one of the cap was faulty, send for RMA.....I just got it back this week....

.....3.5gb issue confirmed 

That time, I was young leh.......I simply believed the shop owner who told me warranty only for 6 months.

Fast forward few years, I learn about factory warranty and shop based warranty.
That mother****** cheater shop owner!
Incidentally, I also learn more of computing stuff.

Edit: grammer mistake, damn autocorrect

It is useless to talk with people that don't have good comprehension of what we're aactually talking about. They don't know the difference between frames per second and frametime.