Friday, January 23rd 2015
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GeForce GTX 970 Design Flaw Caps Video Memory Usage to 3.3 GB: Report
It may be the most popular performance-segment graphics card of the season, and offer unreal levels of performance for its $329.99 price, but the GeForce GTX 970 suffers from a design flaw, according to an investigation by power-users. GPU memory benchmarks run on GeForce GTX 970 show that the GPU is not able to address the last 700 MB of its 4 GB of memory.
The "GTX 970 memory bug," as it's now being called on tech forums, is being attributed to user-reports of micro-stutter noticed on GTX 970 setups, in VRAM-intensive gaming scenarios. The GeForce GTX 980, on the other hand, isn't showing signs of this bug, the card is able to address its entire 4 GB. When flooded with posts about the investigation on OCN, a forum moderator on the official NVIDIA forums responded: "we are still looking into this and will have an update as soon as possible."
Sources:
Crave Online, LazyGamer
The "GTX 970 memory bug," as it's now being called on tech forums, is being attributed to user-reports of micro-stutter noticed on GTX 970 setups, in VRAM-intensive gaming scenarios. The GeForce GTX 980, on the other hand, isn't showing signs of this bug, the card is able to address its entire 4 GB. When flooded with posts about the investigation on OCN, a forum moderator on the official NVIDIA forums responded: "we are still looking into this and will have an update as soon as possible."
192 Comments on GeForce GTX 970 Design Flaw Caps Video Memory Usage to 3.3 GB: Report
1TB = 931GiB (Gibibyte, using 2^10=1024 instead of 10^3=1000)
If that was the case, 4GB of memory would be 3.725 GiB (4*1000*1000*1000/1024/1024/1024)
Also this www.overclock.net/t/1535502/gtx-970s-can-only-use-3-5gb-of-4gb-vram-issue/350#post_23451063
As for the link, if he does replace his card that would mean that the problem was verified and it can't be fixed. Nvidia of course could replace all the cards, but I believe they will choose to give a coupon or something if it affects a big percentage of 970.
forums.guru3d.com/showpost.php?p=4998360&postcount=121
But how come they flawed there TOP product, while it was selling in market right now. the FLAW of memory is noitceable, 700mb isn't minor at all.
will this effect on 970 sales in market????
Most likely someone at NVIDIA forgot a comma or something silly like that when compiling the reference BIOS which an update will fix. It's still an embarrassing problem which shouldn't have happened, though.
I believe you need to step away from PC''s for a moment. Not really, due to people like Puma99dk|.
Edit: corrected sone of the math(16bit per sm)
yet.
wow some argue crazey stand points that benefit no one yet delude a few, if NV fecked up fine ,they all do sometimes ,,
,its what they do next that really matters imho ie to appease or fix the issue.
With that said, I'm very interested to see if and or how they intend to address it.