ASUS Announces GeForce GTX 970 Turbo Graphics Card

[newtekie1]

Black cards matter.

George Bush doesn't care about black graphics cards!

 

[Vlada011]

I hope ASUS will launch some and some special version of X99 motherboarad or Rampage 5 Extreme Black for Anniversary.

 

[RichF]

It's still the awesome performer it was in all the reviews at 1080p and 1440p. Nothing changed just because we discovered the last part of the VRAM operated differently from the rest.

28 GB/s with XOR contention qualifies as awesome? Fewer ROPs and less cache as well?

As far as I'm concerned the 970 should be off the market. Nvidia should release the part as the 965 and advertise it has having 3.5 GB of RAM and either disable that gimpy partition completely or figure out how to make it operate as cache without disrupting the speed of the rest of the VRAM (if that's even possible, which seems unlikely given the XOR).

 

[Vlada011]

For me GTX970 not exist as hardware. I don't know what is GTX970.
Before I hear what happen that was good card for my opinion but not for me, now that not exist.
When I think only how many people didn't bought overclocked GTX780Ti only because behchmark results of GTX970 and 4GB memory... Sad.
And people who sold GTX780 overclocked to cross on 4GB card. Only because NVIDIA and their reviews force 4GB and something very important and big difference from 3GB, only because of that we saw such strong reaction of many people and court later. NVIDIA thought that all buyers are same but GTX970 will buy someone who give last money and he want everything to be OK.
Later and we saw that most buyers who was on NVIDIA side was people with TITAN Black and multi GPU configuration of high end graphic cards as GTX980 SLI. Normal people didn't try to explain that nothing bad happen.

 

[rtwjunkie]

@RichF this is so tiresome. Really, the performance hasnt changed. You can throw specs at everyone, and show changed specs, and thats fine, but it doesn't change any of its performance as the reviews did them, and at 1080/1440.

 

[newtekie1]

28 GB/s with XOR contention qualifies as awesome? Fewer ROPs and less cache as well?

Yes, all of that amounts to awesome performance. In fact it amounts to unmatched performance for the price.