Palit Announces the GeForce GTX 960 JetStream 4 GB

[KarymidoN]

No, no it's not. No single GPU setup is capable of putting out 4K at decent FPS with 4GB. Even 980 SLI struggles to put out ~45 FPS. If you're buying a single 970 4GB for 4K gaming, you're doing it wrong.

Friend, I do not intend to play BF, COD, AC, etc. The game that I play I'm sure 4GB of VRAM can handle at 4K, my neighbor has a CFX R9 290X and plays the same MMO I play at 4K smoothly and above 60fps ... bought the TV's 4k together but he already had a R9 290X and bought another for crossfirex, my choice is now buy a R9 390X and get rid of my GTX 970, which is very good for 1080p, wheel almost anything above 60fps, but it is useless for high resolutions.

 

[RCoon]

it is useless for high resolutions.

Not useless in the slightest. I run at 1440p after all, and I know of people who run them on 1600p too, and they are not remotely useless just because of this 3.5GB nonsense. In fact, I ran 780's on 1440p, and even with 3GB I wasn't experiencing catastrophic problems. Mountain out of a molehill comes to mind.

 

[xorbe]

The size of that card for 120w tdp!!!

 

[rruff]

See this article. Though one thing that research outlines is that memory bandwidth is in line with GPU usage. At 1080p and below it's less of a problem.

Yes, well aware of that thread. Seems that regardless of the resolution, the bus will limit more than the vram on the 960 with 2GB. My question is about the memory bandwidth being an obvious limiting factor, making that extra 2GB of vram on the 4GB cards all but useless unless you SLI with alternate frame rendering. And if DX12 is implemented, the extra vram won't even be helpful for SLI. Do you agree or have a different take on this?

 

[DeSanta]

If any game requires near 4GB of vram usage then it's probably running extremely high settings which the 960 won't perform well in. What's the point of high vram on low end gpus



Stop beating a dead horse

It was a joke, lighten up a bit, lol.