LOL!My bad,always have the GM200 name mixed up.
No good competition from NVidia around RM500-600 price range.And no,only Z97 will help in dual cards,due to x8 speed on 2 PCI-E lanes.

Just curious, is your GTX 780 running at stock or overclocked speeds?

Coming from my previous 780 AMP! to the 970, I can see that there is improvements in terms of the Graphics Score for 3DMark, however in Unigine it doesn't perform as well.

Yup, perhaps the GM204 doesn't handle Unigine very well. CPU all running at stock speeds, monitor 1080p.

GTX 780 (clockspeed 1006MHz) - FPS 58.5, Score 1473

GTX 970 (clockspeed 1152MHz) - FPS 55.2, Score 1391

overclocking the gpu increases the score by quite a lot 

nice increase, mine is around 92xx. I think having a beefy cpu like the core i7 will boost the score even more 

nice bro , for some reason if I OCed and add more voltage my pc will starts to turn off (complete shutdown) no restart .

Suspect I will be needing new PSU soon . Temp looks okay though

This is the last push I managed before

is this any good or can go further ?



LOL right after ended the benchmark my nvidia driver have stopped working .. Dayum I really need to amp up the voltage but then again that will cause shutdown 
for single card I suppose it serves me well but now have 2 970s  despite the low power consumption I still have issues .  Maybe just like u said this cap ayam acbel is a noGO

can give me some recommendation for PSU ? I got plenty of hdd , 2 ssd + soundcard T_T oced my proc as well .

then why i do not get above 60 fps? using very high setting

i feel so cheated by anandtech gpu bench   

Let people buy up all their 970s until shortage... then use the opportunity to raise up prices... 

Then people is forced to get the weaker 960s...

Note: This is a speculation

Tested a couple of games yesterday, namely DA:I and Alien Isolation.

As we all know DA:I is a bit of a hit and miss when it comes to PC optimisation, it's not entirely solid but for the most part it runs decent. My 970 top out at 3.7GB (3702mb to be specific) VRAM on 1440p, max settings. Switch it down to 1080p, max settings and it was hovering around 3680MB. However I did get stuttering once the VRAM went about 3.5GB in DA:I, which is what many others on the internet has already reported.
I wouldn't say the stuttering is terrible till the point of being unplayable, but it can get annoying. Fortunately DA:I isn't a game where you need twitch reflexes, but if this issue crops up in other games then it'll be quite a bad gaming experience.

Alien Isolation on the other hand runs on pretty much any machine and it's example of great optimisation on PC games. Obviously the game isn't stressful enough to use 4GB of VRAM, but what I did was downscale from 4k to 1080p. VRAM usage was around only 3GB. Obviously no stuttering, but I just wanted to try a game where everything is all well and dandy.

Will test a few other games later.
960 is expected to be near 770 performance. Given Maxwell's track record of OC ability, it's quite a given that the 960 will surpass 770 in performance. It's an assumption of course, but I think at this point it's a safe one.

I actually love newer memory chugging games to be honest.

For example Far Cry 4's texture looked superb and detailed compared to Far Cry 3 with the same engine. And both running about the same speed on the same hardware.

For years developers has been finding ways to compress textures and optimize fillrate for games. Suddenly, devs just say "oh wadaheck" when consoles suddenly have 8GB of RAM. Then suddenly we are getting all these games which needs a gigantic step in VRAM just because, "why not?".

I thought only multi monitor setup use a lot of VRAM? First time heard VRAM throttling

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 

Older games textures aren't that awesome compared to latest games. Most of them are so blurry including those on titanfall.

hi,

my Leadktek GTX 670 shown some strange thing lately.
the temperature is spiking to 90-100c when in game (watchdogs,far cry 4,fifa 15 and dragon age)

i thought my normal load temp around 75-80c.

idle temp is 40-45c.

i already assemble it, clear dust and replace new thermal.
but still the same.

i dont't OC it.

does my GC went bad?
PSU faulty?

i bought it in 2012.   

So do we still recommend the 970?  Since the VRAM issue seems to be pointing out to be a hardware issue.

So what alternatives are available?

Though wasn't that this is pretty much confirmed unless nVidia issues a fix/recall?

Since when Haswell-E and geforce considered as workstation? 

Workstation computer uses Xeon and Quadro la

They already have a verdict; the 970 has a gimped 0.5GB of VRAM and in comparison to the 980, the performance drop according to their "testing" is only between 1-4%.

Yeah.