If you have lower VRAM size then just set your settings for lower sized texture in the game settings, that's all...

But we are in 2015 already. AMD or Nvidia should push 8GB VRAM for their top of the line cards now, since VRAM isn't that expensive anymore.


GTX 960 is a dud by Nvidia, it's 2015 yet the performance is like a GTX 760...

Performance increase from OC is not much though compared to GTX 780 or GTX 970. And interesting to see the lousy overclocker R9 290 (as everybody been saying) had performance increase as good as 780/970.

Mid range gamers are still screwed for years with lousy performance lol. Most berbaloi GPU still over RM1k 

i still have a feeling they accidentally cut off too much when they were cutting down on the GM204 chip

Yeah... true... more like false advertising or just plain CON job. Then again, I'm not complaining at the moment.

Well, bloody hell... if that's true... then thanks in advance. heh~

  If they do this, then GTX980 owners gonna sue them.....

Ai yo yo, you two ar......    Trolling mode ar....

Don't forgot SMM unit connection may be disabled by laser cut.

Damage control - Blame the marketing team.

Well,due to the vRAM issue of GTX970,are we gonna still recommend it,though?

r u sure really 8GB vram on 290x?

Kitguru;
http://www.kitguru.net/components/graphic-...wing-a-scandal/

"According to a report by PCPerspective, which cites Jonah Alben, senior vice president of GPU engineering at Nvidia, the GeForce GTX 970 features 56 raster operating pipelines (ROPs) and 1792KB L2 cache, not 64 ROPs and 2MB of cache, as previously reported. In a GeForce GTX 980, each block of L2/ROPs directly communicate through a 32-bit portion of the GM204 memory interface and then to a 512MB section of on-board memory. Since the model GTX 970 lacks part of L2 and ROPs, it cannot effectively use 512MB of 4096MB of onboard GDDR5 memory."

lol I believe even in GPU-Z your GTX970's show 64 ROPs yes? Nvidia did some big con job this time.

Like seriously?

I guess that depends on who's card it is. I think that EVGA for example offers a trade-in program, others might offer credit, etc. It's largely up to them. All I'm offering is to help you out, even it means me contacting them on your behalf.

Hey. Sup. How are we holding up?

So some of the modders might know me from ocn, twitter, reddit or even in person but besides being a lurker on the forums, I'm actually the NVIDIA GeForce social media guy. I work for NVIDIA out here in Santa Clara, CA.

I know there's a lot of back and forth talking about is or isn't the 970 a problem, what's the impact, what's next? Let me jump in here and give my 2 cents. While the 970 is just as amazing today as it was a month ago our communication as a company has clearly been problematic.

I get it. I understand why GTX 970 owners are upset.

We posted stats. We didn't properly explain the memory architecture. We never intended to deceive anyone but despite our best intentions many of you got information that you thought you could trust and made decisions based on it.

We let you down.

We screwed up.

So here's where it gets dicey for me: I really think the 970 is an awesome card. I STILL think it's an awesome card and as a gamer and as an NVIDIA employee I can't help but think it wouldn't get the praise it has if it weren't every bit as incredible as I like to think it is.

But, with that said, others might feel different. They might feel deceived and maybe you even feel like you don't have any options. You do.

So, if any of you don't want the card now, knowing what you know, you should send it back. Get a refund or an exchange. Do what will give you the best gaming experience possible and if you need help to get that done let me know.

I can help.

Looks like they're desperate for people like not to sue them or anything,i guess..
When we're noticed by them.

I bought the Gigabyte GTX970 G1 Gaming last 2 weeks from hikari85, run silent and cool.

Well, nVidia confirms there will be an update to alleviate this issue...

http://www.techpowerup.com/209369/nvidia-t...ver-update.html

I know the 970 is a powerful card, but why would they have a huge miscommunication between the engineering and the PR team is extremely confusing. 

Don't you think something is fishy behind it?    If there is a mistake in the specifications, nVidia could have issued a statement telling that the specifications are incorrect as soon as possible. 
...and the petition has reached more than 2500 signatures in just a few days...

https://www.change.org/p/nvidia-refund-for-gtx-970

I thought we already established long ago that having more GPU RAM does not really improve performance when the GPU itself isn't fast enough. I would agree if everyone is double or triple SLI their GTX 970 to run 4K (because the RAM is still limited to single card RAM) then it is an issue. I guess people just take opportunity (like every fanboys) just to jump the gun and take the shoot for trolololol.

I still remember I first got conned by a salesman in Low Yat saying that my ATI X300 with 256MB HyperMemory is a powerful card. Only later I learned that X300 is entry card (not even mid range)... all the additional RAM went unused.