erm , u2913wm not exactly 1080p or 1440p per se but still it requires more than just one 970 to play fluidly on ultra with all eye candy on.

No problem with frame rate as I mention all the time . It's just the frame hitching is unbearable , battlefield 4 stop stuttering now , Dying light gawd awful , Realm reborn once in a while but that's an mmorpg so it could be cpu wise , far cry 4 after new driver update works smooth as butter and ass creed unity is horrendous as usual .

Almost forgot the MGS Ground zero demo also face with stuttering issue . Makes me think twice to retain this card for GTA V . Yes , its my call to sell it but it's sad that NVIDIA back tracking their statement and not taking ownership of the issue . I dont believe on fanboyism but more to consumerism . People would say oh the perfomance is not that bad as per review your not going to get affected that much due to missing 500mb ram but you will know once you experience it yourself .

The card just doesnt like it when being push more than 3.5gb ram than its started to choking

That is probably why in the first place, nVidia decided not to tell us about this configuration.

They probably thought, well, the performance hit is not noticeable now. We better don't tell all.

...and nVidia just made a 360 on Twitter...

https://twitter.com/NVIDIAGeForce/status/560878957554569216

Oh shit expect massive boycotting soon

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.

I think boycotting will only happen if there are "choices" available. Ohhh, fanboy-ism aside and rationale buying apply only.

I am still in awe with the performance, power consumption and fan noise after months using GTX970.
Boycotting? What other options with the same performance and price category?

If this card chokes, you can be sure that all cards from the same category choke as well.

Sell it and get higher end cards.
SLI GTX980/crossfire R290X or wait for R390x.

This post has been edited by ALeUNe: Jan 30 2015, 11:28 AM

Agree with terradrive, the main problem once the vram fills up to 3.5 GB , it stutters like no tomorrow, I can vouch on that. There's no problem with the fps bcoz it will always be in the 50-60FPS region.

This post has been edited by alfiejr: Jan 30 2015, 11:27 AM

Yeah, like I said, if you're happy with the card, then good for you.

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

Weird right? nVidia doesn't talk about this in official channel. It subcontract to PCPer.

if nvidia introduce gtx 970 with its real specs, even though with the same current price people will still buy it no doubt. the card will still the be the best affordable high-end card atm.. it just that customer only wanted exact information of the product they going to buy.. we hate of being deceived. i know the 4GB are still there but its not working like normal people expectation.. So Nvidia should give prior explanation for the real meaning of gtx 970 4GB memory before they letting their customer buy it. i still remember people proudly saying to me 'my gtx 970 same like gtx 980 but only slightly lower cuda and texture'.. now i can't imagine how frustrated he is..

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.

19'' the resolution is either 720P or 900P? , shouldn't be a problem. I tested Bioshock Infinite(ran very smoothly ) and DA:I (with all settings on ultra and 4MSAA, the game chew quite a lot of vram and it reaches almost 3GB mark, but it still ran fine). My resolution is 1080P btw.

Your card is the same model as me, you should try overclock it a bit

Probably they hope nobody knows except those in the forum or reading tech news.

Its hardware issue. They already said not going to fix it because it is design as such. To nVidia, it is not a bug. And yes, it cannot be corrected by software, driver or BIOS.

The outcome of this is that your card is effectively 3.5GB.

No is the answer. Am running the Asus variant on 1080 res. No issue what-so-ever. Tomb Raider, Max Payne 3, Skyrim (with high-res texture), Far Cry 4 and Shadow of Mordor. Some might say that perhaps I did not "push" it enough to see the problem though...

i still playing doom 3 which i personally feel more scary. single gpu with 1080p monitor already feel

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