Wednesday, January 28th 2015
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NVIDIA to Tune GTX 970 Resource Allocation with Driver Update
NVIDIA plans to release a fix for the GeForce GTX 970 memory allocation issue. In an informal statement to users of the GeForce Forums, an NVIDIA employee said that the company is working on a driver update that "will tune what's allocated where in memory to further improve performance." The employee also stressed that the GTX 970 is still the best performing graphics card at its price-point, and if current owners are not satisfied with their purchase, they should return it for a refund or exchange.
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89 Comments on NVIDIA to Tune GTX 970 Resource Allocation with Driver Update
I own a 970 and happy with it.
Not sure about recalls (highly doubt it though), If I hazard a guess, at best, buyers might get a free game.
Nvidia advertised the 970 as "having the same memory subsystem as the 980" when it clearly doesn't. There has been a thread on Nvidia forums for 3 months since the 970 came out about stuttering over 3.5Gb, I don't believe Nvidia just figured this out now.
When you say Nvidia should compensate GTX 970 remember that others should do it too.
I read it more like a directional path in architecture/software/binning. I think the end goal was to salvage more chips by using software to assist in those borderline unsalvageable part like the L2 cache without taking out the other L2 and pairing MCs and DRAM. Probably would have preferred to have kept it but too many that didn't qualify for 980 were showing 1 bad L2. They saw a way to make it work with software and were hoping it go un-noticed and they could just take out the 2 L2+MC and 1GB for the 960 TI. If they were to cut off the 2 L2s that would be less salvable chips and the "960 Ti" would be a 2GB 1k L2 salvage. That would have put them in another marketing dilemma given they are still 280/280x with 3GB & 290 with 4GB.
Time will tell if we see a similar segmented GPU down the line with GM200, Pascal or Volta.
processors that have so locked sherders on best models ....:banghead:I look forward to AMD 300 best because it looks like it will be again better than the TITAN X and a half cheaper. nvidia I buy only due to the acquisition of AGEIA physics unit, now is the AMD solve this problem with its engine .Except as crazy prices lie fraud manipulations are ..I not here to say something good about nVidia recently -horor.
I just wish Nvidia told us everything from the start because the real life performance still stands out for the price.
Would have been nice to see the reviews testing scenarios where the extra disable parts actually have an impact.
From all I've read, it seems kinda unlikely they didn't already spend a significant amount of effort doing this, but time will tell I guess!
This all is becoming quite a complicated and difficult story. I hope people won't be put off simply by the massive amounts of (mis)information going around causing them to forget the real issue: Trust has once again been broken.
when I hear nVidija is screwed up again I do not see a good product but a lot of greed .I own 5 generations nVidia but I think I'll wait on the AMD new gen .I started with AMD (ATI) and it looks like I'll be back.. GL with GTX970 100% overestimated price card nVidia i think . 20nm is at the door.
Oh yeah, this just in
Truth about the G-sync Marketing Module (NVIDIA using VESA Adaptive Sync Technology – Freesync)Source
I wish this wasn't true...
PS : Sorry if OOT :), really bored with 3.5GB hype..