its always weird how some older gen games that looks way better than current, yet eats up less VRAM

for exp, Crysis 3. its looks superb and beautiful, and it doesnt even chug under <3GB VRAM cards too

its due to massive spam of uncompressed textures by devs, which causes the VRAM to be overloaded and struggling

not so long ago, even 2GB is more than enough for 1440p

but with the introduction of 8GB VRAM in PS4, devs are now taking opportunity to utilise more VRAM

so despite GPU having more than enough power to deal with the game, you get frame drops due to lack of VRAM

nah, my negativity on >VRAM is more on how older games still can have awesome textures yet doesnt max out the VRAM in the GPUs

well SSJBen sort of answered what i wanted to answer

those MP focused games have to be avoid using as examples, as theyre never meant for "high end graphics" anyway, they dont cater to that

even with my Skyrim with 4K res texture pack, even if its filled with bucket full of other graphical mods, it barely taxes 3GB VRAM cards. and it still look superb as well. their stock one was nasty as fuk btw, 128x128 reso max

and then suddenly Shadow Of Mordor comes in with Ultra Texture DLC, i tried it. and game keep crashing due to insufficient memory (GPU-Z shows maxing at 3+GB VRAM and being throttled by that)

and then visual checking time, i see no discernible differences (granted i only downsample from 2880x1620p) as their High settings is plenty superb already

the trend of constantly spamming uncompressed textures just because "muh next gen" is getting out of hand these days. Watchdogs look like crap. yet requires >3GB VRAM. what? how???

if this trend continues just cause "marketing tactic of more is better", GPU manufacturers cannot catch up as 8GB GDDR5 are not cheap and easily to mass produced yet (theres a reason workstation cards with 12GB VRAM are obnoxiously priced)
in short, i like how the direction the market is going, but only if the higher VRAM is to be utilised efficiently.

Around RM800 is better,but most of the 960s so far are overpriced..

be inspired  

dream PC 4 all yer mofos

easily more than 10k this fuking build



i7 5820k
x99
16gb ddr4 (4GB X 4)
gtx980 (would have been sweet if it was dual/triple SLI)
12 terabyte (6TB X 2)
1000w power supply

Not really reliable, but it's a general idea. The Nai benchmark is also bugged, so all the testing that was done in the last week was wrong too.

I still think the best way to test VRAM (for now) is to use Shadow of Mordor or Skyrim at 4k downsampling with 8k texture mods.
Best case scenario, lol!

So... Dying Light:


Mine is still downloading, so probably only tonight can test. But damn, if that's an indication then... 

347.25 IS a game ready driver for Dying Light...

980 is great and all bro, but not RM700 greater than the 970. If tonight kena Toto then different story.
Lol the way they say a driver is going to fix the VRAM issue is equally fishy. It's a hardware limitation, no unicorn driver from the next galaxy will do anything to "fix" it.

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

Which games have stuttering issue?
To be specific, which games are not supported by GTX970?
Will it be fixed (either by firmware or driver)?

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?

If the stuttering on single card is not worse than SLI, it sounds like an unoptimized driver, no?

If that conclusion make you feel any better, then good. Some people just don't like being cheated. Also this is effectively 3.5GB card.

I think probably he doesn't feel any spike when he play game (maybe due to non-demanding game setting). Furthermore in the PCPer review, the frametimes is worse with GTX970 but not as bad as expected due to 3.5GB VRAM. It seems PCPer is protecting nVidia lololol...

Hi guys, I have 2 graphic card in my rig now, how do I enable SLI function? And how do I make sure that both graphic card is in use ?

i prefer the ref cooler method of dumping heat outside of case than letting it recirculate inside

3rd party coolers are indeed superior in every way, but not in the aspect of dumping heat outside of casing

my old GTX660 stock reference cooler did a pretty decent job, even allowing a minor OC and staying well within 76-82C. but thats a 140W card, so it might not count much.

even so, my current 780 cooling perf is rather impressive so far for a reference cooler. 76-78C on room temp Shadow Of Mordor 1440p, all max cept texture and thats with an OC of 100/200MHz (reaching boost clock of 1084MHz). with AC room of ambient 24C, it drops to 73C max, avg 69C

unless AMD is capable to giving to customers reference cooler with the capability like Nvidia-esque TITAN cooler, i have no choice but to stick to NGreedia