GTX 970 Has Memory Issue May Require Recall

http://www.lazygamer.net/general-news/nvidias-gtx970-has-a-rather-serious-memory-allocation-bug/

Apparently there is a hard fault when accessing the last 500-700mb of the cards VRAM. Causing speed to drop and stutter the games. It may require Nvidia recall all of them to fix it ir reissue new cards.

Huh this isn't good for nvidia, wonder if the 980 has it too.

980 is supposed to be fine. This is only a 970 issue. 

Yes This issue is on my striks 970 and when it hits the last 500mb of vram it gose from 416 Gbytes/s to 10.93 Gbytes/s.

 

It's cool. It'll still sell like hot cakes.

That's too bad

Hmmm...... I can imagine this conversation now.

AMD: "Hey Nvidia, hows that issue on the 970 going?"

Nvidia: "Oh that? Can't fix it in time for release."

AMD: "Darn thats a bummer, what will you do?"

Nvidia: "Oh we're just gonna lower the price so people will buy it."

AMD: "Oh.., and then?"

Nvidia: "Make another version with only 2GB of VRAM"

AMD: "But... But.... think about the gamers!"

Nvidia" We do, thats why we're releasing the cards with cool names and colors. Then after we've laced our wallets will give it a shot again."

AMD: "......"

Nvidia: 

Lols

I just want to had, I just tried the benchmark on my 970. andddddd I only have 3gb of usable vram, after chunk 23 the bus speed caps out.


seriously, what the fuck nvidia. I paid $400 canuck bucks for this GPU

Very few people actually had a game suffer from his because there are so few games that will use 3GBs+ of Vram. although I will say there have been a few issue on star citizen (known memory hog) where, 970s in particulare started to choke.

Other than that if your game only uses 2GB of vram and you never even touch that 3rd gb OF 4GB does it matter? (of course it does I'm playing devils advocate lol)

Sure but you're really fucked if, in the future, you want to use it for 4k gaming. The sweet spot seems to be 4gb.

I doubt there will be a recall as the GTX 980 which is almost identical to the 970 does not have the memory problem.

 

At most we will see a firmware update for the 970 as that probably the issue.

That's cool as long as it's fixed. 

Yeah this sounds like something driver/firmware related i'd be very surprised if it's a physical issue. Will keep my eye on this because i was considering a 970.

my comment was in devils advocate but hey,

I'd say the mid end sweet spot (960level performance) should be around 3GB with a 196/256bit bus MINIMUM. Cards above a 770 in power def. need 4GB. 256/384bit

I don't trust the majority of 970 owners enough to perform a firmware update. Especially considering to possibility of bricking it. If it does require a firmware update it will most likely require a recall.

How truthful.

Dat memory efficiency.

Nvidia :)

They were too busy trying to crush AMD to release something quality.