I'm looking into upgrading my 7870, and had been considering the GTX 970. After all the issues with the vram, is it still recommended? I'll mostly be using it for single monitor 1080p, but I will want to play some games in surround/eyefinity.
No :P
Nope, unless heat and power consumption is your major concern. Which you shouldn't be...
Yes just not for intensive 1440p or 2k game play. So no super modded skyrim. It is still a very good card but it has issues with high memory usage games.
For now stay away from it until this memory issue is resolved.
Absolutely not we can't support nvidia for this, they haven't even apologized even after they both fucked up the memory and lied about other specifications. Just get a 290x it's cheaper anyways and performs the same.
So many nos.
For high resolutions, no. However, it's still a great performing card. All the benchmarks that were done on launch day aren't invalidated - the card is still a great performer.
The benchmark results are in NO way affected by this. It's still the same card everybody was so excited about back in september 14. Yes, it was pretty shitty from Nvidia to kinda lie about the true specs of the card.
But still, if this leads to Nvidia probably lowering prices a bit to win people back this could turn out to be kinda cool. It depends on what you want to use it for. If you want a 1080p or 1440p card, this is still one of the best choices out there.
Jaysus...
One synthetic benchmark and everyone is in full on rage mode.
I have used 2 different 970's on friends machines and both performed like champs at 1080p and 1440p in REAL world games.
My only concern with this card is that there is nothing stopping AMD from making sure that their future 'Gaming Evolved' title releases don't exploit this in some way.
And don't act like they wouldn't, cause I f*cking would :D
Nvidia = Hubris
290x is usually cheaper and a better option.
I woundlt bother.